مداد

Arabic

Etymology

From the root م د د (m-d-d), whence مَدَّ (madda, “to extend, stretch, spread out”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mi.daːd/

Noun

مِدَاد • (midād) m (plural أَمِدَّة (ʔamidda))

  1. ink
    Synonym: حِبْر (ḥibr)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:109:
      قُل لَّوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِّكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا
      Say, "If the sea were ink for [writing] the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it as a supplement."
  2. dung, manure
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:براز
  3. lamp oil

Declension

Descendants

  • Moroccan Arabic: مداد (mdād)
  • → Persian: مداد (medâd)

Noun

مَدَاد or مُدَّاد • (madād or muddād) m

  1. field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis
    Synonyms: مَدِيد (madīd), عُلَّيْق (ʕullayq), حَبْل الْمَسَاكِين (ḥabl al-masākīn), طَرْبُوش الْغُرَاب (ṭarbūš al-ḡurāb), عَصَب (ʕaṣab), عَصَب أُورُبِّي (ʕaṣab ʔūrubbī), لَبْلَاب (lablāb), لَبْلَاب الْحُقُول (lablāb al-ḥuqūl)

Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “مداد”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 573–574
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “مداد”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1076
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مداد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1192

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مِدَاد (midād).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mdaːd/
  • (file)

Noun

مداد • (mdād) m (plural مدادات (mdādāt))

  1. ink

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِدَاد (midād, “ink”). Displaced native زکاب (zakâb).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [mɪ.d̪ɑ́ːd̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [mɪ.d̪ɑ́ːd̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [mi.d̪ɔ́ːd̪̥]

Readings
Classical reading? miḏāḏ
Dari reading? midād
Iranian reading? medâd
Tajik reading? midod

Noun

Dari پنسل
Iranian Persian مداد
Tajik қалам, мидод

مِداد • (medâd) (plural مدادها (medâd-hâ))

  1. pencil
    Synonyms: زکاب (zakâb), قلم مداد (qalem-e medâd)

Derived terms

  • مداد رنگی (medâd-e rangi)
  • مداد نقاشی (medâd-e naqâši)
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