مِدَادٌ
Root: مد
Full Definition
2 Ink; syn. نِقْسٌ and حِبْرٌ; that with which one writes: so called because it aids the writer: this is the common acceptation of the word.
3 مِدَادٌ (or مِدَادُ السِّرَاجِ, A) Oil that is put into a lamp.
4 مِدَادٌ (or مِدَادٌ الأَرْضِ, A) Dung: or manure composed of dung and ashes, or of earth or dust and dung, or of strong earth; and simply earth or dust; and sand.
5 مِدَادٌ A row of trees; not of palm-trees. (IAar, in TA, voce أُسْكُوبٌ, q. v.)
6 A mode, manner, fashion, and form. Ex. بَنَوْا بُيُوتَهُمْ عَلَى مِدَادٍ وَاحِدٍ They built their houses after one mode, &c.
7 مِدَادُ قَيْسٍ A certain game of the Arabs, or of children.
8 يَنْبَعِثُ فِى الحَوْضِ مِيزَابَانِ مِدَادُهُمَا أَنْهَارُ الجَنَّةِ [Two pipes, or spouts, whereof the sources of the supply are the rivers of paradise, pour into the pond which is without its precincts]; i. e., the rivers of paradise flow into those pipes, or spouts, and increase their flow, or make it copious, or abundant.
9 مِدَادٌ sing. of أَمِدَّةٌ, which signifies The large needles (مَسَالُّ, M, L, TT; in the CK and a MS copy of the K, مِسَاك; in the TA, مَسَاك) [which are inserted] in the two sides of a piece of cloth when its manufacture is commenced.
10 Also, the pl., The threads which compose the warp of a web.
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