دَرِدَ
Root: درد
Form: 1
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دَرِدَI
, Present.T
ـَ Verbal.Noun دَرَدٌ, He was, or became, toothless; he lost his teeth. It is said in a trad., أُمِرْتُ بِالسِّوَاكِ حَتَّى خِفْتُ
لَأَدْرَدَنَّ I was commanded to make use of the tooth-stick until I feared, meaning I thought, or opined, that I should assuredly become toothless: for the Arabs use ظَنَّ in the same manner as a verb signifying an oath, and give it the same kind of complement, saying, ظَنَنْتُ لَعَبْدُ
ٱللّٰهُ خَيْرٌ مِنْكَ: or, accord. to one relation, the words of this trad. are لَزِمْتُ السِّوَاكَ حَتَّى
خَشِيتُ أَنْ يَدْرَدَنِى [a mistranscription for
, from أَدْرَدَ, i. e. I kept to the use of the toothstick until I feared that it would deprive me of my teeth, or render me toothless]: or, accord. to another relation, خَشِيتُ أَنْ أَسْنَانِى [I feared that I should make my teeth to fall out]; but this [verb, Mtr says,] I have not heard.
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