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أَدَاةٌ ذ An instrument; a tool; an implement; a utensil: and instruments; tools; implements; utensils; apparatus; equipments; equipage; accoutrements; furniture; gear; tackling: syn. آلَةٌ: (T, S, M, Msb, K:) of any tradesman or craftsman; with which he performs the work of his trade or craft: and of war; أَدَاةُ الحَرْبِ signifying weapons, or arms: (Lth, T:) and for an affair [of any kind]: (M:) [applied also to the apparatus of a camel, or of a camel's saddle, &c.: (see حِدْجٌ:)] and ↓ إِِدَاوَةٌ signifies the same; (M, TA;) and ↓ أَدَاوَةٌ : (TA:) and ↓ أَدِىٌّ , (S, TA,) like غَنِىٌّ , (TA,) [in some copies of the S آدِىٌّ ,] signifies apparatus, equipments, equipage, accoutrements, furniture, gear, tackling, implements, tools, or the like; syn. أُهْبَةٌ: (S, TA:) the pl. of أَدَاهٌ is أَدَوَاتٌ. (T, S, Msb, K.) You say, أَخَذَ أَدَاتَهُ [He took his apparatus, &c.; or prepared, furnished, equipped, or accoutred, himself]; (S, M, K;) لِلْأَمْرِ [for the affair], and لِلسَّفَرِ [for journeying, or the journey], (M,) and لِلدَّهْرِ [for the vicissitudes of fortune]: (T, S, K:) and it is related on the authority of Ks, that they said أَخَذَ هَدَاتَهُ; substituting ه for أ. (Lh, M). And أخَذْتُ لِذٰلِكَ ↓ الأَمْر أَدِيَّهُ i. e. أُهْبَتَهُ [I took for that affair its apparatus, &c.]. (S, TA.) And نَحْنُ عَلَى لِلصَّلَاةِ ↓ أَدِىٍّ We are in a state of preparation for prayer. (S, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, in grammar, A particle; as being a kind of auxiliary; including the article ال, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection; but not the adverbial noun.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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