كُدَّ

Root: كد

Form: 1

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كُدَّI , Present.T كَدُدَ Verbal.Noun كَدٌّ, He toiled; or was, or became, vehement, or severe, in work; he worked laboriously; he fatigued himself, and hastened, in his work. [You say] بِجَدِّكَ لَا بِكَدِّكَ By thy good fortune, not by thy toil, are things attained. A proverb. And لَا تَجْعَلْ عَيْشَهُمَا كَدًّ Make not the life of them two a toil.
2 المَسَائِلُ كَدٌّ يَكَدُّ بِهَا الرَّجُلُ وَجْهَهُ Petitions are [a cause of] dispiriting: a man thereby impairs the brightness of his countenance.

def.2 كَدَّهُ, (L, K, Present.T كَدُدَ Verbal.Noun كَدٌّ, He required of him toil, or vehemence, or severity in work, or persevering or constant exertion in striving to do a thing or in seeking a thing; as also , and : he fatigued or wearied or jaded him; namely, a beast, and a man, &c.: [like دَكَّهُ;] he plied, or pressed him, plied or pressed him hard, or harassed him, in constant work which he imposed upon him, so as to fatigue or weary him. See also كَدٌّ.
2 كَدَّ He fatigued his tongue with speaking and his heart with thinking.
3 كَدَّ, Present.T كَدُدَ Verbal.Noun كَدٌّ, He exerted himself perseveringly, assiduously, constantly, or incessantly, in striving to do, effect, or accomplish, a thing, or in seeking [a thing].
4 كَدَّ, Present.T كَدُدَ Verbal.Noun كَدٌّ, He sought gain, or, sustenance, or the means of subsistence.

def.3 كَدَّ, Present.T كَدُدَ Verbal.Noun كَدٌّ, He pointed, or made a sign, with the finger, like as the beggar does. [It is also trans.] El-Kumeyt says, غَنِيتُ فَلَمْ أَرْدُدْكُمُ عِنْدَ بِغْيَةٍ وَحُجْتُ فَلَمْ أَكْدُدْكُمُ بِالأَصَابِعِ [I was rich, and I did not repel you on an occasion of exigency; and I was in want, and I did not point at you with the fingers].
2 كُدُّونِى فَإِنِّى مُكِدٌّ Ask ye of me; for I give [only] when asked. Said by Ibn-Hubeyreh. (A [but in my copy of that work, the first word is written كِدُّونِى.])

def.4 كَدَّ, [Present.T كَدُدَ .] He scratched, or scraped: he scraped off a soil from a garment: he scratched perseveringly his head, and his skin, with his nails.
2 كَدَّ, [Present.T كَدُدَ ] Verbal.Noun كَدٌّ, He combed his head.
3 كَدَّ, [Present.T كَدُدَ ] He trod the ground with his hoofs.

def.5 كدّهُ, (Present.T كَدُدَ L,) He pulled or drew it out with his hand; as also .

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