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1 شَدَا ذ , (Msb, K,) first pers. شَدَوْتُ, (S,) aor. شَدُوَ , (Msb,) inf. n. شَدْوٌ, (S, Msb,) He drove camels: (S, K:) or he collected and drove a detached number of a herd of camels. (Msb.) ― -b2- Hence, (Msb,) شَدَا, (Msb, K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He acquired somewhat of polite literature, (S, Msb, K, TA,) or of science, and guided himself thereby to the knowledge of somewhat more, (Msb,) and likewise of song; (TA;) as though he drove it and collected it: (S, TA:) or شَدَا مِنَ العِلْمِ, and مِنَ الغِنَآءِ, (MA, TA,) شَيْئًا, (TA,) inf. n. as above, (MA, TA,) he acquired somewhat of science, and of song: (MA:) or he knew well some sort of science, and of song; and so of other things. (TA.) شَدْوٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) A man's doing well, or knowing well, somewhat of a thing or an affair. (TA.) And شَدَوْتُ مِنْهُ بَعْضَ المَعْرِفَةِ means I knew [somewhat of] him, or it, [but] not well. (TA.) ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) He recited a verse, or two verses, (S, K,) singing, (K,) or prolonging, or straining, his voice, as in singing [and as is commonly done in the driving of camels; whence, app., this meaning of the verb]. (S.) And شَدَا شِعْرًا, (S, K,) or غِنَآءً, (S,) (assumed tropical:) He sang poetry, (S, K,) or a song: (S:) or he recited it with a trilling, or quavering, or prolonging and modulating of the voice. (S.) ― -b4- And شَدَا شَدْوَهُ i. q. نَحَا نَحْوَهُ (assumed tropical:) [He tended, repaired, betook himself, or directed his course, towards him, or it; agreeably with the explanation in the TK: or he purposed his (another's) purpose]. (K.) ― -b5- And شَدَا فُلَانًا فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:) He assimilated such a one to such a one; or he likened such a one to such a one; syn. شَبَّهَهُ إِِيَّاهُ. (ISd, K, TA. [In the CK, فُلَانًا is not repeated.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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