See also: کد

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ك د د (k-d-d)

Verb edit

كَدَّ (kadda) I, non-past يَكُدُّ‎ (yakuddu)

  1. to work hard, to toil, to exert oneself, to slog
    • 850–861, علي بن سهل ربن الطبري [ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī], edited by Oliver Kahl, ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī’s Health Regimen or “Book of the Pearl” كتاب اللؤلؤة (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 115), Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →ISBN, § 50, page 78:
      وَمَا كَانَ مِنَ ٱلْحَيَوَانِ صُلْبًا يَرْعَى‭‬ فِي ٱلْمَرَاعِي ٱلْيَابِسَةِ ٱلصُّلْبَةِ وَيَكُدُّ‬ فِي ٱلْأَعْمَالِ ٱلصَّعْبَةِ‭‬ فَإِنَّهَا أَصْلَبُ وَأَبْطَأُ ٱسْتِمْرَاءً
      wamā kāna mina l-ḥayawāni ṣulban yarʕā‭‬ fī l-marāʕī l-yābisati ṣ-ṣulbati wayakuddu‬ fī l-ʔaʕmāli ṣ-ṣaʕbati‭‬ faʔinnahā ʔaṣlabu waʔabṭaʔu stimrāʔan
      What there is of sturdy animals grazing the dry and harsh pastures and exerting themselves in hard works, they are tough and tardy (when to be digested).
  2. to make weary, to tire, to goad
    • 1962, Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس [Men in the Sun]:
      لَا بُدَّ أَنَّهُ شَيْءٌ مَوْجُودٌ، مِنْ حَجَرٍ وَتُرَابٍ وَمَاءٍ وَسَمَاءٍ، وَلَيْسَتْ مِثْلَمَا تَهُومُ فِي رَأْسِهِ ٱلْمَكْدُودِ
      lā budda ʔannahu šayʔun mawjūdun, min ḥajarin waturābin wamāʔin wasamāʔin, walaysat miṯlamā tahūmu fī raʔsihi l-makdūdi
      It was certainly something real, of stones, earth, water, and sky, not as it slumbered in his troubled mind.
  3. (obsolete) to scratch off, to scrape
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

كَدّ (kaddm (plural كُدُود (kudūd)) (usually uncountable)

  1. verbal noun of كَدَّ (kadda) (form I)
  2. toil, fatigue, assiduity
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

Borrowed from Aramaic כּדּא (kaddā, pot, pitcher), ultimately from Old Tamil 𑀓𑀺𑀡𑁰𑀝𑀺 (kiṇṭi, pitcher pot). Doublet of قَادُوس (qādūs).

Noun edit

كَدّ (kaddm

  1. (obsolete, rare) mortar
    Synonyms: هَاوُن (hāwun), جُرْن (jurn), مِهْرَاس (mihrās)
Declension edit

Iraqi Arabic edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic قَدْر (qadr). Usage similar to Turkish kadar, Persian قدر (qadr, qadar).

Noun edit

كد (gad)

  1. amount, quantity
    اشكد هذا
    ešgad hāḏā
    How much is this?