أمد

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Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Root
م د د (m d d)
14 terms

Verb

أَمَدَّ (ʔamadda) IV (non-past يُمِدُّ (yumiddu), verbal noun إِمْدَاد (ʔimdād))

  1. to grant a delay of payment
  2. to help, to assist
  3. to aid with troops or provisions
  4. to allow (someone) to profit (بِ (bi) from something)
  5. to prolong one's life
  6. to provide the inkstand with ink
  7. to suppurate, to fester
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Verb

أمد (form I)

  1. أَمُدُّ (ʔamuddu) /ʔa.mud.du/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of مَدَّ (madda)
  2. أُمَدُّ (ʔumaddu) /ʔu.mad.du/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of مَدَّ (madda)
  3. أَمُدَّ (ʔamudda) /ʔa.mud.da/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive/jussive of مَدَّ (madda)
  4. أُمَدَّ (ʔumadda) /ʔu.mad.da/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of مَدَّ (madda)
  5. أَمُدِّ (ʔamuddi) /ʔa.mud.di/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of مَدَّ (madda)
  6. أُمَدِّ (ʔumaddi) /ʔu.mad.di/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of مَدَّ (madda)

Etymology 2.1

Root
م د د (m d d)
14 terms

Irregular, pre-Arabic developments with causative prefix *ša-.

Noun

أَمَد (ʔamadm (plural آمَاد (ʔāmād))

  1. term, extend, scope, deadline
  2. (obsolete) anger, wrath
Declension

Etymology 2.2

Verb

أَمَدَ (ʔamada) I (non-past يَأْمُدُ (yaʔmudu), verbal noun أَمَد (ʔamad)) (obsolete) 

  1. to be termed
Conjugation

Etymology 2.3

Verb

أَمِدَ (ʔamida) I (non-past يَأْمَدُ (yaʔmadu), verbal noun أَمَد (ʔamad)) (obsolete) 

  1. to be angry
Conjugation

Etymology 2.4

Verb

أَمَّدَ (ʔammada) II (non-past يُؤَمِّدُ (yuʔammidu), verbal noun تَأْمِيد (taʔmīd)) (obsolete) 

  1. to set a deadline to, to term
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Verb

أَمْدِ (ʔamdi) (form I) /ʔam.di/

  1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of مَدَى (madā)

References

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 71
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “أمد”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 53
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أمد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 76