بادرهُ
Root: بدر
Form: 3
Full Definition
بادرهُIII
, Verbal.Noun مُبَادَرَةٌ and بِدَارٌ; and
; He hastened, or made haste, or strove to be first or beforehand, in doing [or attaining or obtaining] it; namely, a thing: and بَدَرَ غَيْرُهُ إِلَيْهِ, Present.T
ـُ; and بادرهُ اليه; He hastened with another, or vied or strove with him in hastening, to it [or to do or attain or obtain it]: syn. عَاجَلَهُ, and أَسْرَعَ إِلَيْهِ. بادر [as well as
بَدَرَ and
] denotes mutual effort only when it is immediately trans.: when it is trans. by means of إِلَى [or بِ (the former in the TA written by mistake على], there is nothing to show that it denotes this. [But it is often immediately trans. without its denoting such effort.] One says, بادرهُ
He hastened to do it [&c., as explained above]; meaning, a thing that he desired, or wished for: [and بادربِهِ signifies the same; or he hastened with it: and the former signifies also he betook himself early to him or it:] and بادر إِلَيْهِ
he hastened to it; as also بَدَرَ اليه, Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun بُدُورٌ: or, accord. to Zj, agreeably with its derivation, [see بَدْرٌ,] he employed the fulness of his power, or force, to hasten [to it]: and الأَمْرٌ, and
بَدَرَ إِلَيْهِ, (Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun بَدْرٌ, TA, [or بُدُورٌ, as above,]) the thing, or event, came to him, or happened to him, hastily, quickly, or speedily; and, beforehand [or before he expected it]; syn. عَجِلَ, and سَبَقَ, or اِسْتَبَقَ: [and بَدَرَ مِنْهُ قَوْلٌ, and فِعْلٌ, a saying, and an action, proceeded from him hastily, without premeditation: see بَادِرَةٌ.] It is said in a trad., بَادِرُوا بِالْأَعْمَالِ هَرَمًا [Strive ye to be before decrepitude with good works; i. e., to perform them before decrepitude]. And in another, بَادِرُوا الصُّبْحَ بِالْوِتْرِ [Strive ye to be before daybreak with the prayers termed
وتر; i. e., to perform them before daybreak]. And in another, بَادِرُوا بِصَلاَةِ
المَغْرِبِ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ النَّجْمِ [Hasten ye with, or to perform, the prayer of sunset before the rising of the star]. You say also, فُلَانٌ يُبَادِرُ فِى
أَكْلِ مَالِ اليَتِيمِ [Such a one hastens in consuming the property of the orphan before the latter is of full age]. And بَادَرَ كِبَرَ اليَتِيمِ [He hastened to be before the orphan's attaining to full age in expending his property]; said of a guardian; i. q. فِي مَالِ اليَتِيمِ: and thus, بِدَارًاأَنْ
يَكْبَرُوا, in the Kur [iv. 5], means hastening to be before their attaining to full age in expending their property. And بادرهُ الغَايَةَ and إِلَى الغَايَةِ [He strove with him in hastening, or strove to get before him, to the goal]. And الغَايَةَ and إِلَى الغَايَةِ [He strove in hastening, or strove to get first, to the goal]. And بَادَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا إِلَى أَمْرٍ, and أَمْرًا, and
, They vied, or strove, one with another, in hastening to a thing, or an affair, trying which of them would be first.
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