Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَدَأَ and كَدِئَ, aor. ـَ {يَكْدَأُ}, inf. n. كَدْءٌ and كُدُوْءٌ, It (a plant) was affected by the cold, and thereby made to stick to the earth: or its growth became slow by reason of want of water. (AZ, Ṣ, Ḳ.)

كَدَأَ, aor. ـَ {يَكْدَأُ}; (Ḳ;) andكدّأ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) inf. n. تَكْدِئَةٌ; (Ṣ;) the former the more common; (TA;) It (cold) cast down the standing corn, &c. upon the earth. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

كَدَأَ ‡ It (herbage) was short and bad, (Ḳ,) on account of the badness of the soil. (TA.)

كَدِئَتِ الإِبِلُ, aor. ـَ {يَكْدَأُ}, inf. n. كَدْءٌ, The camels had little hair. (TA.)

كَدِئَ, (Ḳ,) or كَدَأَ, (L.) the former said to be of an uncommon dial., (MF,) aor. ـَ {يَكْدَأُ}, It (a crow or raven) croaked roughly, as though it were vomiting. (L, Ḳ.)

كَوْدَأَ, (Ḳ,) inf. n. كَوْدَأَةٌ, (TA,) He ran in the manner called عَدْو: (Ḳ:) i. e., he hastened in his pace. (TA.) [See دَأْدَأَ.]

أَرْضٌ كَادِئَةٌ A land that produces plants slowly. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

إِبِلٌ كَادِئَةُ الأَوْبَارَ Camels having little hair: pl. كَوَادِئُ. (TA.)

كِنْدَأْوٌ dial. form of كِنْتَأْوٌ. (Ḳ.)

A gross, or bulky, camel. (Ḳ.) [But perhaps جمل is here put by a mistake of a copyist in the Ḳ for حبل, and the meaning is a thick rope; for كنتأو is said to signify thick, as an epithet applied to a rope: or the reverse may be the case in the explanation of the latter word.] It occurs again in art. كند. (TA.)