عند

عُنْدَدٌ ذ or عُنْدُدٌ, (accord. to different copies of the S,) or both, (O, L, K,) in which the radical letters are said to be عند because of the duplication of the د, and because ن when it occupies the second place in a word is not considered augmentative unless proved to be so, (L,) An avoiding, or escaping: (S, O, L, K:) and the former, artifice. (AZ, O, K.) One says, مَا لِى عَنْهُ عُنْدَدٌ and عُنْدُدٌ (Lh, L, K, and written, as on the authority of AZ, in both these ways in the O and in different copies of the S, but with مِنْهُ in the place of عَنْهُ,) and ↓ مُعْلَنْدَدٌ (S, O, L, K) and ↓ مُعْلَنْدِدٌ, (K,) meaning I have no way of avoiding it, or escaping it. (AZ, Lh, S, O, L, K.) And مَا وَجَدْتُ اـِلَى ذٰلِكَ عُنْدَدًا and عُنْدُدًا (Lh, L) and ↓ مُعْلَنْدَدًا (Lh, S, O) and ↓ مُعْلَنْدِدًا (Lh, O) I found no way of attaining to that: (Lh, S, O, L:) and ↓ مَا لِى اـِلَيْهِ مُعْلَنْدِدٌ (Lh, L in art. علد, and K) and ↓ مُعْلَنْدَدٌ (Lh, L) I have no way of attaining to it. (Lh, L, K.) [See also art. علد.] -A2- عُنْدَدٌ also signifies Old, or ancient. (AA, O, K.)