كدح

Root entry · 13 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of striving, working hard, and exerting effort, often with a sense of earnestness or diligence. It extends to the idea of earning a living, and by extension, to causing harm or damage, particularly to one's face or reputation. It can also refer to scratching or making a mark.

Derived headwords

كَدَحَverb

1.
to striveboth
To exert oneself diligently in work, whether for worldly matters or the afterlife.
2.
to work for oneselfboth
To perform an action for oneself, whether good or bad.
3.
to scratchboth
To inflict a scratch or mark upon something, especially a face.
4.
to spoilclassical
To damage or spoil the appearance or reputation of something.

وما الدهر إلا تارتان فمنهما أموت وأخرى أبتغي العيش أكدح — And time is but two turns; one I die, and another I seek to live, striving.

انك كادح إلى ربك كدحا — Indeed, you will strive toward your Lord with [much] exertion.

كَدْحnoun

1.
strivingboth
The act of striving, working hard, and being diligent.
2.
scratchboth
A scratch or a mark left by scratching, often on the face.
3.
exertionboth
Effort and hard work.

به كدح — He has a scratch.

كَدْحَةnoun

1.
scratchboth
A scratch or a slight wound.

كُدُوحnoun

1.
scratchesboth
Plural of 'kadḥ', referring to scratches or marks.

من سأل وهو غني جاءت مسألته يوم القيامة خدوشا، أو خموشا، أو كدوحا في وجهه — Whoever asks while he is rich, his request will come on the Day of Resurrection as scratches, or marks, or wounds on his face.

تَكَدَّحَverb

1.
to be scratchedboth
To become scratched or marked.
2.
to be brokenclassical
To be broken or shattered, as in falling.

تكداح الجلد فتخدش — The skin becomes scratched and is scratched.

ووقع من السطح فتكدح، أي تكسر — And he fell from the roof and was broken, meaning shattered.

تَكْدِيحnoun

1.
scratchingboth
The act of scratching or causing a scratch.

كدحه تكديحا فتكدح — He scratched him, causing him to be scratched.

اِكْتَدَحَverb

1.
to earnboth
To earn a living or acquire something through effort.

كدح لعياله: كسب، كاكتدح — He worked for his family: he earned, like he earned.

اِكْتِدَاحnoun

1.
earningboth
The act of earning or acquiring through effort.

مُكَدَّحadjective

1.
scratchedboth
Having been scratched or marked.

مُكْدِحadjective

1.
hard-workingclassical
One who strives or works hard.
2.
bittenclassical
Describing a wild donkey that has been bitten.

وحمار مكدح كمعظم: معضض — And a hard-working donkey, like 'mu'aẓẓam': bitten.

مَكْدَحَةnoun

1.
scratchclassical
A mark of a scratch.

مَكَادِحnoun

1.
hardshipsclassical
Difficulties or struggles, often related to earning a living.

أبو عيال يكدح المكادحا — A father of a family who endures hardships.

كَوْدَحname

1.
Koudah
A proper name of a man.

وكودح كجوهر اسم رجل — And Koudah, like Jawhar, is the name of a man.

Parallel reading

الكدح في اللغة، السعي، والحرص، والدؤوب في العمل في باب الدنيا والآخرة.

Kadḥ in language means striving, eagerness, and diligence in work, concerning both worldly matters and the hereafter.

وما الدهر إلا تارتان فمنهما أموت وأخرى أبتغي العيش أكدح

And time is but two turns; one I die, and another I seek to live, striving.

وقال أبو إسحاق: الكدح في اللغة، السعي، والحرص، والدؤوب في العمل في باب الدنيا والآخرة.

Abu Ishaq said: Kadḥ in language means striving, eagerness, and diligence in work, concerning both worldly matters and the hereafter.

وقال الجوهري، أي تسعى.

Al-Jawhari said, meaning you strive.

ومن قوله تعالى: {7. 004 انك كادح. . كدحا} (الانشقاق: 6)

And from His saying, the Almighty: {Indeed, you will strive toward your Lord with [much] exertion.} (Al-Inshiqaq: 6)

كدح وجه فلان، إذا عمل به ما يشينه، ككدحه تكديحا فتكدح، خدشه فتخدش.

He marred someone's face, if he did something that shamed it, like scratching it, so it was scratched and became scratched.

أو كدح وجه أمره، إذا أفسده.

Or he marred the face of his affair, if he spoiled it.

كدح لعياله: كسب، كاكتدح

He worked for his family: he earned, like he earned.

أبو عيال يكدح المكادحا

A father of a family who endures hardships.

كدح رأسه بالمشط: فرج شعره به.

He combed his head with a comb: he parted his hair with it.

به كدح بفتح فسكون، أي خدش

He has a kadḥ, with fatḥa then sukūn, meaning a scratch.

وقيل الكدح أكبر من الخدش.

And it is said that kadḥ is greater than a khadsh (scratch).

وفي الحديث: من سأل وهو غني جاءت مسألته يوم القيامة خدوشا، أو خموشا، أو كدوحا في وجهه

And in the Hadith: Whoever asks while he is rich, his request will come on the Day of Resurrection as scratches, or marks, or wounds on his face.

قال ابن الأثير: الكدوح: الخدوش، وكل أثر من خدش أو عض فهو كدح، ويجوز أن يكون مصدرا سمي به الأثر.

Ibn al-Athir said: Al-kudūḥ are scratches, and every mark from a scratch or bite is a kadḥ, and it is permissible for it to be a masdar named after the mark.

وتكدح الجلد: تخدش.

And the skin becomes scratched: it is scratched.

ووقع من السطح فتكدح، أي تكسر.

And he fell from the roof and was broken, meaning shattered.

وحمار مكدح كمعظم: معضض

And a hard-working donkey, like 'mu'aẓẓam': bitten.

وقال أبو عبيد: الكدوح: آثار الخدوش، ومنه قيل للحمار الوحشي مكدح، لأن الحمر يعضضنه.

Abu Ubaid said: Al-kudūḥ are the marks of scratches, and from this the wild donkey is called mukdaḥ, because other donkeys bite it.

وأنشد: يمسون حول مكدم قد كدحت متنيه حمل حناتم وقلال

And he recited: They spend the night around a place of biting, whose flanks have been scratched by carrying burdens and peaks.