استهدم

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Arabic

Root
ه د م (h d m)
2 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

اِسْتَهْدَمَ (istahdama) X (non-past يَسْتَهْدِمُ (yastahdimu), verbal noun اِسْتِهْدَام (istihdām))

  1. to fall down, to break down to collapse
    • 1996 [805-892], أحمد بن يحيى البَلاذُري, quoting أبو بكر ابن حزم الخزرجيّ الأنصاريّ, edited by سهيل زكّار and رياض زركلي, جُمَل من أنساب الأشراف, first edition, volume 8, Beirut: دَار الْفِكْر [dār al-fikr], page 145:
      إِنَّ مَسْجِدَ بَنِي عَدِيِّ بْنِ النَّجَّارِ، أَخْوَالِ رَسُولِ اللهِ ﷺ قَدِ ٱسْتَهْدَمَ ، فَإِنْ رَأَى أَمِيرُ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ أَنْ يَأْمُرَ بِبِنَائِهِ فَلْيَفْعَلْ
      ʔinna masjida banī ʕadiyyi bni n-najjāri, ʔaḵwāli rasūli llāhi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama qadi stahdama , faʔin raʔā ʔamīru l-muʔminīna ʔan yaʔmura bibināʔihi falyafʕal
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) to seek to destroy

Conjugation