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الءض

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to the concepts of necessity, compulsion, seeking refuge, and returning. It also encompasses meanings of breaking, urging, and seeking something.

Derived headwords

الإِضّnoun
  1. 1.
    Originclassical

    The fundamental source or basis of something.

الإِضَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    Refugeclassical

    A place of safety or shelter.

  2. 2.
    Camel's labor painsclassical

    The onset of labor pains in a female camel.

أَضْنَىverb
  1. 1.
    To exhaustboth

    To cause someone extreme fatigue or hardship.

  2. 2.
    To impoverishclassical

    To make someone extremely poor or needy.

  3. 3.
    To breakclassical

    To shatter or destroy something.

أَضْنَى الأمرverb
  1. 1.
    The matter exhausted meboth

    The situation or affair caused me great hardship and difficulty.

أَضْنَى الفقر إليكverb
  1. 1.
    Poverty drove me to youboth

    Extreme poverty compelled me to seek you out or rely on you.

أَضْنَى الشيءverb
  1. 1.
    To break the thingclassical

    To cause something to break or be shattered.

أَضْنَى النعامة إلى أدحيهاverb
  1. 1.
    The ostrich sought its nestclassical

    The ostrich intended to return to its nesting place.

آضَت إليهverb
  1. 1.
    It returned to itclassical

    It reverted or went back to its original state or place.

ائْتَضَّهُverb
  1. 1.
    To seek itclassical

    To look for or pursue something.

  2. 2.
    To strike itclassical

    To hit or beat something.

ائْتَضَّ إليهverb
  1. 1.
    To be compelled to itclassical

    To be forced or driven into a certain situation or action.

المُؤَاضnoun
  1. 1.
    The one who hastensclassical

    Someone or something that is quick or prompt.

  2. 2.
    The pregnant camelclassical

    A female camel that is pregnant or in labor.

Parallel reading

الإِضّ، بالكسر: الأصل.
Al-iḍḍ, with kasra: the origin.
والإِضَاض، بالكسر: الملجأ، وتصلق الناقة عند المخاض.
And al-iḍāḍ, with kasra: the refuge, and the camel's labor pains.
وأَضْنَى الأمر: بلغ مني المشقة،
And the matter exhausted me: it reached the hardship in me,
والفقر إليك: أحوجني، وألجأني،
and poverty to you: it made me needy, and it compelled me,
والشيء: كسره،
and the thing: breaking it,
والنعامة إلى أدحيها: أرادته، كآضت إليه.
and the ostrich to its nest: it intended it, as if it returned to it.
وائْتَضَّهُ: طلبه، وضربه،
And seeking it: asking for it, and striking it,
وإليه: اضطر.
and to it: being compelled.
والمُؤَاض: المبادر،
And al-mu'āḍ: the one who hastens,
ومن الإبل: الماخض.
and among camels: the pregnant one.