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إِِدُّ أد إِد اد ودى آد : see أَدُّ. ― -b2- Also, and ↓ إِِدَّةٌ , A wonder, or wonderful thing: (M, L, K:) a very evil, abominable, severe, thing, or affair: (S, M, A, L, K:) a calamity; (S, A, L, K,) or thus the former word signifies; (M;) as also ↓ أَدُّ , (as in the copies of the K,) or ↓ آدُّ , [originally آدِدً] of the measure فَاعِلْ: (so in the S and L:) pl. (of إِِدُّ M, TA) إِِدادُ (K, TA,) or أَدَادُ (T, CK, [but this, if correct, is a quasi-pl. n.,]) or آدَادُ (M,) and (of إِِدَّةٌ, S, M) إِِدَدٌ (T, S, M, K.) You say also أَمْرْإِِدُّ [meaning as above], using إِِدُّ as an epithet, accord. to Lh. (M.) And ↓ دَاهِيَةٌ إِِدَّةٌ [A very evil, abominable, or severe, calamity]. (A.) Hence the saying in the Kur [xix. 91], لَقَدْ جِئْتُمْ شَيْئًا إِِدًّا Verily ye have done a very evil, or abominable, thing: (S, M: *) or, accord. to one reading, ↓ أَدُّا ; both meaning great, or grievous: and some of the Arabs say, ↓ بِشَىْءٍ آدٍّ , which means the same. (T, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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