معد

R. Q. 2 تَمَعْدَدَ ذ He assumed the garb, dress, habit, or external appearance, of the sons of Ma'add: mentioned also in art. عد [which see for other explanations not repeated here]: (K:) he endured with patience their mode of life in travel and in a fixed residence: (Lth, L:) and he subjected himself to a hard, or difficult life: said to be not derived from any other word. (L.) ― -b2- تَمَعْدَدَ He became numbered among the sons of Ma'add. (L.) ― -b3- It (a people or party) removed from Ma'add to El-Yemen, and then returned. (Lth, L.) ― -b4- (tropical:) He became big, bulky, gross, or coarse, and fat: (Lh, TA:) (tropical:) he (a boy) became big, bulky, gross, or coarse, and hard, and lost the freshness and tenderness of youth. (A.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) He (an emaciated man) began to become fat. (K.) ― -b6- He (assumed tropical:) (a sick man) became convalescent. (K.)