Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَاْدَدَ

Root: عد

Form: 3

Full Definition

عَاْدَدَIII [عادّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا, Verbal.Noun مُعَادَّةٌ and عِدَادٌ, app. signifies They enumerated, or recounted, their good qualities or actions, one to another: for] يَوْمُ العِدَادِ is expl. by Sh as meaning يَوْمُ الفِخَارِ وَمُعَادَّةِ بَعْضِهِمْ بَعْضًا [i. e. The day of vying, or contending for superiority, in glory, or excellence, &c., and app. of persons enumerating, or recounting, their good qualities or actions, one to another]. [See also عِدَادٌ.]
2 عَادَّهُمُ الشَّىْءَ He shared with them equally in the thing: and عادّ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا فِى الشَّىْءِ They shared one with another in the thing; i. e., in anything. [Hence,] one says, عادّهُ فِى المِيرَاثِ [He shared with him in the inheritance].
3 [The Verbal.Noun] عِدَادٌ also signifies The contributing equally, or clubbing, for the purchase of corn, or food, to eat: and a people's having money, or property, divided into lots, or portions, and distributed in shares among them: syn. بِدَادٌ; (T and L in art. بد from IAar, and O in the present art.;) and مُنَاهَدَةٌ. (T and L in art. بد from IAar, and O and K in the present art.) [You say, عادّ القَوْمُ: see بَادَّ]
4 عادّهُ, Verbal.Noun مُعَادَّةٌ and عِدَادٌ, said of a malady, and of the pain of a venomous sting or bite, and of insanity, It intermitted, and returned to him. It is said in a trad., مَا زَالَتْ أُكْلَةُ خَيْبَرَ تُعَادُّنِى The pain of the poison of the food of Kheyber which I ate has not ceased to return to me at certain periods. And one says, عَادَّتْهُ اللَّسْعَةُ The pain of the venomous sting, or bite, returned to him with vehemence at the expiration of a year.


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