غَدَا

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غَدَاI , Present.T يَغْدُو, Verbal.Noun عُدُوٌّ and غَدْوٌ (M, TA, and so accord. to the CK instead of غُدُوٌّ [which is the only Verbal.Noun commonly known]) and غُدْوَةٌ, He went, or went away, in the time called غُدْوَة, i. e. [the early part of the morning,] the period between the prayer of daybreak and sunrise: this is the primary signification: or i. q. بَكَّرَ [he went forth early in the morning; in the first part of the day; or between the time of the prayer of daybreak and sunrise]; so in the phrase غَدَا عَلَيْهِ [he went forth early in the morning, &c., to him, or it]; as also : and signifies the same as غَدَا عَلَيْهِ; or the same as بَاكَرَهُ [which is syn. with بَكَّرَ عَلَيْهِ as expl. above; and signifies also, like بَكَّرَ عَلَيْهِ, he hastened to it, or to do it, at any time, morning or evening]: الغُدُوُّ is the contr of الرَّوَاحُ [Verbal.Noun of رَاحَ]. Hence, in the Kur [lxviii. 22], أَنِ ٱغْدُوا عَلَى حَرْثِكُمْ [Saying, Go ye forth early, &c., to your land's produce]: and the saying of a poet, وَقَدْ وَالطَّيْرُ فِى وُكُنَاتِهَا [And sometimes, or often, I go forth early, &c., while the birds are in their nests].
2 Afterwards, by reason of frequency of use, it became employed as meaning He went, or went away, or departed, at any time. Hence the saying, of the Prophet, in a trad., اُغْدُ يَا أُنَيْسُ, meaning Depart then, O Uneys
3 [Freytag bas erroneously assigned to it another meaning, i. e. “ Nutrivit ” misled by his finding تَغْدُوْ put for تَغْذُو in art. طلى in the CK.]
4 غَدِىَ: see 5.

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