مدي

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See also: مذي, مذی, and مدى

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
م د ي (m d y)
5 terms

Noun

مُدِيّ (mudiyym (plural أَمْدِيَة (ʔamdiya))

  1. an unwalled watercourse
Declension

Etymology 2

See مُدّ (mudd) of broader use.

Noun

مُدْي (mudym (plural أَمْدَاء (ʔamdāʔ)) (obsolete)

  1. a dry measure whereof the details are uncertain
    • 577 AH / 1181–82 CE, ابن هشام اللخمي [Ibn Hišām al-Laḵmiyy], edited by José Pérez Lázaro, الْمَدْخَلُ إِلَى تَقْوِيمِ اللِسَانِ وَتَعْلِيمِ الْبَيَانِ (al-madḵalu ʔilā taqwīmi l-lisāni wataʕlīmi l-bayāni) [Introducción a la corrección del lenguaje y la enseñanza de la elocuencia] (Fuentes Arábico-Hispanas; 6), volume II, Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional, published 1990, →ISBN, page 319 Nr. 490:
      ويقولون المُدِي للسّوق التّي يباع فيها الدّقيق. والصّواب المُدْيُ وهو مكيال كبير الأهل الشّأم وليس باسم لسوق.
      They say mudī of the market wherein flour is bought. The correct is mudy, it is large measure of the people of the Levant and no market name.
Declension

Etymology 3

Verb

مُدِّي (muddī) (form I) /mud.diː/

  1. second-person feminine singular imperative of مَدَّ (madda)

Etymology 4

Verb

مُدِيَ (mudiya) (form I) /mu.di.ja/

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive 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 1196, confused the measure with مَدّ (madd) and an incorrect reference Hinz, Walther (1955, 1970) Islamische Maße und Gewichte: umgerechnet ins metrische System (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: der nahe und der mittlere Osten; Ergänzungsband 1, Heft 1) (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 50 (the measure مُدْي (mudy) does not occur in this reference)
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 206
  • Hinz, Walther (1955, 1970) Islamische Maße und Gewichte: umgerechnet ins metrische System (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung: der nahe und der mittlere Osten; Ergänzungsband 1, Heft 1) (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 50
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مدي”, 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 Cie, page 1079