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مَادَ

Root: ميد

Form: 1

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مَادَI , Present.T يَمِيدُ, Verbal.Noun مَيْدٌ and مَيَدَانٌ, It was, or became in a state of motion, or commotion; was, or became agitated: or, in a state of violent motion or commotion; or violently agitated. So in the expression in the Kur, [xvi. 15; and xxxi. 9;] أَنْ تَمِيدَ بِكُمْ Lest it should be convulsed with you, and go round with you, and move you about violently.
2 مَادَ It turned or twisted about, or became contorted and convulsed.
3 مَادَ فِى الرُّمْحِ He writhed upon the spear.
4 مَادَ It (the mirage, سَرَاب,) was in a state of commotion; it quivered, or trembled.
5 مَادَ He was, or became, confounded, perplexed, or amazed.
6 مَادَ, (Present.T يَمِيدُ, TA, Verbal.Noun مَيْدٌ or مَيَدٌ, L,) He became affected with a heaving of the stomach, or a tendency to vomit, and a giddiness in the head, by reason of intoxication, or of voyaging upon the sea.
7 You say also مَادَ بِهِ البَحْرُ, Present.T يَمِيدُ, Verbal.Noun مَيْدٌ, The sea affected him with a heaving of the stomach, &c. And مَادَتْ بِهِ الأَرْضُ The ground went round with him.
8 مَادَتِ الحَنْظَلَةُ, (Present.T يَمِيدُ, L,) The colocynth became affected by day-dew, or by moisture, and in consequence, changed [in odour, or stinking]: and in like manner a date.
9 مَادَ, Verbal.Noun مَيْدٌ and مَيَدَانٌ; and ; It inclined from side to side.
10 He inclined from side to side in walking.
11 مَادَ, Verbal.Noun مَيْدٌ and مَيَدَانٌ, It inclined to one side: as the earth is, in a trad., described to have done before the mountains were formed.
12 مَادَ He affected a bending of his person, body, or limbs; he walked with an elegant and a proud and self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of his body from side to side; and مَادَتْ and تميّدت signify the same, said of a woman.

def.2 مَادَ He conferred, or bestowed, a benefit or benefits, or a favour or favours. You say, مَادَنِى فُلَانٌ Such a one conferred a benefit or benefits upon me.
2 مَادَه, and , He gave him.
3 مَادَ He furnished persons with, or gave them, provisions for travelling; syn. زَادَ. [In the K, زَارَ He visited.]
4 He brought a people wheat, or food; i. q. مَارَ, of which it is a dial. form.
5 He trafficked as a merchant.
6 مَادَ, Verbal.Noun مَيْدٌ and مَيَدَانٌ, It increased, or grew; syn. رَاعَ and زَكَا. [In the copies of the K in my hands, for راع is put زاغ.]
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