عديد

عَدِيد • (ʕadīd)

1. numerous, many
   • 1991, الهرم الكبير وأبو الهول, مكتبة لبنان, page 2:

     بَنَى الْمِصْرِيُّونَ الْقُدَمَاءُ أَهْرَامًا عَدِيدَةً.

     banā l-miṣriyyūna l-qudamāʔu ʔahrāman ʕadīdatan.

     The Ancient Egyptians built numerous pyramids.

عَدِيد • (ʕadīd) m (plural عَدَائِد (ʕadāʔid)) (archaic)

1. number, amount
   • c. 700, al-ʾaḵṭal at-taġlibī, ألا سائل الجحاف هل هو ثائر:

     يصولُ بمَجْرٍ لَيْسَ يُحْصى عديدُه
     ويَسْدَرُ مِنْهُ، ساجِياً، كلُّ ناظِرِ

     He encroaches numerously in a number that cannot be counted
     And every beholder is silent and dazzled by him.

• “عديد” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “عديد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 118
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “عديد”, 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 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 188
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عديد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “عديد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 817