غدو

Root entry · 26 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the early part of the day, morning, and the act of going or setting out early. It extends to concepts of time, daily routines, and even specific types of sales and clouds.

Derived headwords

الغُدْوَةnoun

1.
morning timeboth
The early part of the day, specifically the forenoon.
2.
specific timeclassical
A specific point in time, often referring to a particular day's morning.

أتيته غدوة يا هذا — I came to him in the morning, morning, O you.

سر على فرسك غدوة — Ride your horse in the morning.

غَدَاةnoun

1.
morningboth
The morning, often used interchangeably with 'ghudwah'.
2.
early morningboth
The time between dawn prayer and sunrise.

بالغداة والعشي — in the morning and the evening.

غداة غد — the morning of tomorrow.

الغَدَاةnoun

1.
morning prayerboth
The dawn prayer (Salat al-Fajr).

غَدِيَةnoun

1.
morningclassical
A variant or dialectal form of 'ghudwah' or 'ghadaah'.

ألا ليت حظي من زيارة أميه غديات قيظ أو عشيات أشتيه — Oh, I wish my share from visiting my mother would be summer mornings or winter evenings.

غَدَواتnoun

1.
morningsboth
Plural of 'ghadaah', referring to multiple mornings.

غَدِيَاتnoun

1.
morningsclassical
Plural of 'ghadiyah', referring to multiple mornings.

غديات قيظ — summer mornings.

غَدَايَاnoun

1.
morningsclassical
A plural form, often used in conjunction with 'ashaaya' (evenings) for stylistic parallelism.

إني لآتيه بالغدايا والعشايا — I indeed come to him in the mornings and the evenings.

غَدْوnoun

1.
morningclassical
A plural form of 'ghudwah' or 'ghadaah', referring to mornings.

بالغدو والآصال — in the mornings and the afternoons.

غَدَاverb

1.
to go earlyboth
To set out or go in the morning.
2.
to goboth
To go or proceed, regardless of the time of day.

أن اغدوا على حرثكم — Go forth to your field.

غَدْوًاnoun

1.
going earlyboth
The act of going out in the morning; the morning journey.

غدا غدوًا — He went out in the morning.

اغْتَدَىverb

1.
to go earlyboth
To set out or go in the morning.

اغدوا على حرثكم — Go forth to your field.

وقد أغتدي والطير في وكناتها — And I may go out early while the birds are in their nests.

غَادَاهُverb

1.
to go out with himboth
To go out early together with someone.

غَادَاهُ غَدَاةً — He went out with him in the morning.

مُغَادَاةnoun

1.
going out earlyboth
The act of going out early, often in company.

الغَدnoun

1.
tomorrowboth
The day after today.
2.
futureboth
The future, or a time in the future.

وما الناس إلا كالديار وأهلها بها يوم حلوها وغدوا بلاقع — And people are but like dwellings and their inhabitants on the day they inhabit them, and tomorrow they are desolate.

غَدِيّadjective

1.
related to tomorrowboth
Pertaining to tomorrow; future.

غَدَوِيّadjective

1.
related to tomorrowboth
Pertaining to tomorrow; future.

الغَادِيَةnoun

1.
morning cloudboth
A cloud that forms or appears in the morning.
2.
morning rainclassical
Rain that falls in the morning.

أثر غادية في إثر سارية — the trace of a morning cloud after a night cloud.

الغَدَاءnoun

1.
morning mealboth
The meal eaten in the morning or forenoon.
2.
foodboth
Food in general.

تَغَدَّىverb

1.
to eat breakfastboth
To eat the morning meal.
2.
to eatboth
To eat a meal.

تغدى في رمضان أي تسحر — He ate in Ramadan, meaning he had the pre-dawn meal.

غَدَّاهُverb

1.
to give him breakfastboth
To provide someone with a morning meal.

غَدْيَانadjective

1.
given breakfastclassical
Describing a male who has been given a morning meal.

غَدْيَاadjective

1.
given breakfastclassical
Describing a female who has been given a morning meal.

الغَدْوِيّnoun

1.
offspring in wombclassical
The offspring of livestock (camels, sheep) still in the womb.
2.
sale of unborn youngclassical
A prohibited sale of unborn young of animals.

نهي عن الغدوي، وهو كل ما في بطون الحوامل — He was forbidden from 'al-ghadawi', which is everything in the wombs of pregnant animals.

أبو الغاديةname

1.
companion's nameclassical
A kunya (patronymic) of a companion of the Prophet Muhammad.

الغَادِيadjective

1.
lionclassical
A name for a lion, referring to its habit of hunting early.

الغَدَاءname

1.
ancestor's nameclassical
The name of an ancestor, specifically the grandfather of the poet Amr ibn Urwah.

Parallel reading

الغدوة، بالضم: البكرة

Al-ghudwah, with dammah: the early morning.

وقال الجوهري: يقال: أتيته غدوة يا هذا، غير مصروفة لأنها معرفة

Al-Jawhari said: It is said: I came to him in the morning, O you, undeclined because it is definite.

والمشهور أن منع صرف غدوة وبكرة للعلمية الجنسية كأسامة

And the famous opinion is that the prohibition of declension for 'ghudwah' and 'bukrah' is due to their being proper nouns for a genus, like 'Usamah'.

والجمع غدى كمدية ومدى

And the plural is 'ghadaa' like 'mudayyah' and 'madaa'.

يقال: آتيك غداة غد

It is said: I will come to you tomorrow morning.

وقوله تعالى: بالغداة والعشي؛ أي بعد صلاة الفجر وصلاة العصر

And His saying, the Almighty: 'in the morning and the evening'; meaning after the dawn prayer and the afternoon prayer.

قال ابن هشام في شرح الكعبية: أصل الغداة} غدوة بالتحريك لقولهم في جمعها {غدوات

Ibn Hisham said in Sharh al-Ka'biyyah: The origin of 'al-ghadaah' is 'ghudwah' with harakah, because they say for its plural 'ghaduwaat'.

والغدية، كغنية، عن ابن الأعرابي قال: هي لغة في الغدوة كضحية لغة في ضحوة

And 'al-ghadiyyah', like 'ghaniyyah', from Ibn al-A'rabi, who said: It is a dialectal form of 'al-ghudwah', like 'dahiyyah' is a dialectal form of 'dahwah'.

وهو جمع غدية على قول ابن الأعرابي، فإذا كان كذا فهو على القياس

And it is a plural of 'ghadiyyah' according to Ibn al-A'rabi, so if it is so, it is according to analogy.

ومنهم من قال: هو جمع غدوة، وقد أنكره ابن هشام في شرح الكعبية

And some of them said: It is a plural of 'ghudwah', and Ibn Hisham denied this in Sharh al-Ka'biyyah.

وقوله تعالى: بالغدو والآصال أي} بالغدوات فعبر بالفعل عن الوقت

And His saying: 'in the morning and the afternoons', meaning 'in the mornings', so the time is expressed by the verb.

قولهم: إني لآتيه بالغدايا والعشايا، هو لازدواج الكلام

Their saying: 'I indeed come to him in the mornings and the evenings', is for the parallelism of speech.

ومننه قوله تعالى: غدوها شهر ورواحها شهر

And among His sayings is: 'Their going forth is a month, and their returning is a month'.

وقوله تعالى: أن اغدوا على حرثكم

And His saying: 'Go forth to your field'.

وقد أغتدي والطير في وكناتها

And I may go out early while the birds are in their nests.

غدا غدوا، من باب قعد، ذهب غدوة، هذا أصله، ثم كثر حتى استعمل في الذهاب والانطلاق أي وقت كان

'Ghada ghudwan', from the باب 'qa'ada', means to go in the morning, this is its origin, then it became common until it was used for going and proceeding at any time.

ومن الحديث: (واغد يا إبليس) أي انطلق

And from the Hadith: '(Go forth, O Iblis)' meaning proceed.

غاداه مغاداة: (باكره)

Ghadahahu mughadaatan: (to go out with him early).

وما الناس إلا كالديار وأهلها بها يوم حلوها وغدوا بلاقع

And people are but like dwellings and their inhabitants on the day they inhabit them, and tomorrow they are desolate.

الغدو أصل الغد، وهو اليوم الذي يأتي بعد يومك، فحذفت لامه ولم يستعمل تاما إلا في الشعر

'Al-ghudwu' is the origin of 'al-ghad', which is the day that comes after your day, so its 'lam' was omitted and it was not used completely except in poetry.

الغدوي، كعربي: كل ما في بطون الحوامل من الإبل والشاء، عن أبي عبيدة

'Al-ghadawiyy', like 'Arabi': everything in the wombs of camels and sheep, from Abu Ubaidah.

نهي عن الغدوي، وهو كل ما في بطون الحوامل، كان الرجل يشتري بالجمل أو العنز أو الدراهم ما في بطون الحوامل، وهو غرر فنهي عنه

He was forbidden from 'al-ghadawi', which is everything in the wombs of pregnant animals. A man used to buy a camel, or a goat, or dirhams for what was in the wombs of pregnant animals, and it was uncertainty, so he was forbidden from it.

الغدى، كهدى: جمع غدوة

'Al-ghudaa', like 'hudaa': plural of 'ghudwah'.

الغدوة، بالفتح، المرة من الغدو، وهو سير أول النهار، ويقابلها الروحة

'Al-ghudwah', with fatha, is the instance of 'al-ghaduw', which is traveling in the early part of the day, and it is contrasted with 'al-rawhah' (traveling in the afternoon).

ويسمى السحور غداء لأنه للصائم بمنزلته للمفطر؛ ومنه تغدى في رمضان أي تسحر

And the pre-dawn meal is called 'ghadaa' because it is to the fasting person what the morning meal is to the one who breaks his fast; and from this is 'taghadda fi Ramadan', meaning he had the pre-dawn meal.

وهو ابن غداتين: أي ابن يومين

And he is the son of two mornings: meaning the son of two days.

واركب إليه غدية، كسمية، تصغير غداة

And ride to him 'ghadiyyah', like 'sumiyyah', a diminutive of 'ghadaah'.

وامرأة غديانة عشيانة، نقله الزمخشري

And a woman 'ghadyanah 'ashyanah', narrated by Al-Zamakhshari.

وأتيته غديانات، على غير قياس، كعشيانات، حكاهما سيبويه

And I came to him 'ghadyanaat', irregularly, like 'ashyanaat', both narrated by Sibawayh.