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أُخْدُودٌ ذ A furrow, trench, or channel, in the ground; (S, A, K;) as also ↓ خَدٌّ (A, K) and ↓ خُدَّةٌ : (K:) a deep trench in the ground; as also ↓ خَدٌّ : applied in the Kur [lxxxv. 4] to a deep trench into which, it being filled with fire, some believers in the true God were cast by some idolaters among whom they dwelt: (TA:) a hole, hollow, cavity, pit, or the like, dug, or excavated; (Msb;) as also ↓ خُدَّةٌ : (S:) pl. أَخَادِيدُ: (A, Msb:) the pl. of ↓ خَدٌّ is خُدُودٌ; (A;) and the pl. of ↓ خُدَّةٌ is خُدَدٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- A rivulet, or streamlet; syn. جَدْوَلٌ; (Msb;) as also ↓ خَدٌّ ; (L, K;) of which the pl. [of pauc.] is أَخِدَّةٌ, contr. to rule; and of mult. خِدَادٌ and خِدَّانٌ. (L.) ― -b3- أَخَادِيدُ and ↓ خَدَدٌ [the latter probably a mistranscription for خُدَدٌ, pl. of ↓ خُدَّةٌ ,] The main or middle parts, or open or obvious tracks, (شَرَك,) of a road: (L:) [because furrowed by the feet of beasts and men.] ― -b4- أَخَادِيدُ الأَرْشِيَةِ The furrows, or grooves, of wellropes, in a well; made by drawing them. (L.) ― -b5- أَخَادِيدُ السِّيَاطِ The marks of whips; (K;) the furrows made by whips upon the back. (L.) ― -b6- ضَرْبَةٌ أُخْدُودٌ, (S,) or ضَرْبَةُ أُخْدُودٍ, (so in a copy of the A,) (tropical:) A blow, or stroke, or beating, that furrows the skin. (S, A, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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