عَضُدٌ

, (S, O, Msb, K,) which is the most common form of the word, (TA,) and ↓ عَضِدٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) of the dialect of Asad, (O, Msb,) and ↓ عُضُدٌ, (AZ, O, Msb, K,) of the dialect of Tihámeh, (AZ, TA,) or of El-Hijáz, (Msb,) and ↓ عَضَدٌ, (Th, TA,) and ↓ عَضْدٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) of the dials. of Temeem and Bekr, (O, Msb,) and ↓ عُضْدٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) and ↓ عِضْدٌ, (K,) the last three of which are said to be contractions of the first or second, or variants thereof formed to assimilate them to other words preceding them; (TA;) all masculine and feminine; (L;) or feminine only; (Lh, TA;) or masculine in the dialect of Tihámeh; (AZ, L;) or feminine in the dialect of Tihámeh, and masculine in the dialect of Temeem; (AZ, Msb;) i. q. سَاعِدٌ, (S, L,) i. e. [The upper arm, or upper half of the arm,] from the elbow to the shoulder-blade, (S,) or the part between the elbow and the shoulderblade, (L, O, Msb, K,) of a human being: (L:) [and in a beast, the arm; (see أَبَضَهُ &c.;) in this case like ذِرَاعٌ:] plural أَعْضُدٌ and أَعْضَادٌ, (Msb,) or only the latter, (L,) which is used in a poem of Sá'ideh Ibn-Ju-eiyeh as meaning the legs of bees. (TA.) مَلَأَ مِنْ شَحْمٍ عَضُدِى, in the story of Umm-Zara, means (assumed tropical:) He filled with fat, not peculiarly my عَضُد, but my whole body; for when the عَضُد becomes fat, the whole body becomes so. (O, L.)

[Hence,] عَضُدٌ [in the CK العَضْدُ is erroneously put for العَضُدُ] signifies also (tropical:) An aider, or assistant; (L, K, TA;) and so [apparently any of its variants mentioned above, and] ↓ عَاضِدٌ (TA) and ↓ عِضَادَةٌ. (L, TA.) And it is also used for [its plural] أَعْضَادٌ; as in the Qur'an, 18:49, in which the singular form is said to be employed for the sake of agreement with the other verses [preceding and following], that they may all end with singulars: (TA:) but one also says, هُمْ عَضُدِى and أَعْضَادِى (tropical:) [They are my aiders, or assistants]. (O, K, TA.) And one says, فُلَانٌ عَضُدِى, meaning (assumed tropical:) Such a one is my support, or stay. (Msb.) And فَتَّ فِى عَضُدِهِ (assumed tropical:) He broke some of the intentions, purposes, or designs, of his aiders, or assistants, (or of the people of his house, TA,) and separated, or dispersed, them from him: (O, K:) or he sought to injure him by diminishing, or impairing, [in number or power,] the people of his house; (T and O in article فت;) and in like manner, فَتَّ فِى أَعْضَادِهِ. (TA in the present article) And فَتَّ فِى عَضُدِى وَهَدَّ رُكْنِى (assumed tropical:) He broke my strength, and dispersed, or separated, my aiders, or assistants: (TA in article فت:) [for] عَضُدٌ signifies also (tropical:) Strength, because the part so called, of a man, is a mean of strength to him. (L.) سَنَشُدُّ عَضُدَكَ بِأَخِيكَ, in the Qur'an, 28:35, means, according to Zj, (tropical:) We will aid thee, or assist thee, by thy brother. (L.)

Also (assumed tropical:) The side of the armpit; and so ↓ عَضَدٌ. (L.) And (assumed tropical:) A side of a road; (O, L; [in this sense written in the TA عَضْدٌ;]) as also ↓ عِضَادَةٌ. (L.) (assumed tropical:) The side, or quarter, from which the wind blows. (L.) (assumed tropical:) A side; or a lateral, or an outward, or adjacent, part, or portion; a quarter region, or tract; (O, L, K;) of a house, and of anything: plural أَعْضَادٌ. (L.) [Hence,] عَضُدُ الرَّكَايءِبِ (assumed tropical:) The tract, or part, surrounding the camels, or other beasts, used for riding. (L.) One says, اِمْلِكْ أَعْضَادَ الإِبِلِ (tropical:) [lit. Have thou possession of the tracts adjacent to the camels], meaning direct thou aright the course of the camels, so that they may not wander away to the right and left. (A.)

Also, and ↓ عَضَدٌ, (L,) and أَعْضَادٌ, (S, L, K,) which last is a plural of the two preceding words, as is also عُضُودٌ, (L,) (tropical:) A raised enclosing border, or such borders, of built work, (S, O, L, K,) &c., (S, L,) of a watering-trough or tank, and of a road, &c., (K,) or of anything, (S, O,) such as the أَعْضَاد of a watering-trough or tank, which are stones, (S,) or broad and thin stones, (L,) set up around the brink; (S, L;) also called عَضُدٌ; extending from the place whence the water flows into it, to its hinder part: (L:) or عَضُدٌ signifies the two sides of a watering-trough or tank: (IAar, L:) or its side: (O, TA:) and its أَعْضَاد are its sides: and the أَعْضَاد of a portion of sown land that is separated from the parts adjacent to it by ridges of earth, for irrigation, are its raised borders that confine the water; (A;) أَعْضَادُ المَزَارِعِ signifying the [raised] boundaries between the portions of sown land. (En-Nadr, L.)

عَضُدٌ (O, K, in the CK عَضْد,) is also synonym with ↓ عَضِيدٌ, (K,) or ↓ عَضِيدَةٌ, (O,) as signifying (assumed tropical:) A row of palm-trees: (O, K:) the first of these words is mentioned by Hr as occurring in a tradition, and is thus explained: but others say that it is ↓ عَضِيدٌ, (TA,) which, according to As, signifies a palm-tree having such a [low] trunk that one can reach from it [the fruit or branches]; (S, TA;) and the plural is عِضْدَانٌ: (S, K:) he adds that when it exceeds the reach of the hand it is called جَبَّارَةٌ. (S, TA.)

عَضُدَا النَّعْلِ and ↓ عِضَادَتَاهَا [and عَضُدَا شِرَاكِ النَّعْلِ signifies (assumed tropical:) The two branches of the شِرَاك of the sandal, described voce أُذُنٌ, q. v.;] the two appertenances, of the sandal, that lie upon the foot. (L.)

عَضُدَا الرَّحْلِ (assumed tropical:) The two pieces of wood that are attached to the fore part of the camel's saddle, (L,) or to the lower portions of its fore part (the وَاسِط): (Lth, O, L:) or, according to AZ, the upper portions of the ظَلِفَتَانِ [a mistake for the حِنْوَانِ] of the camel's saddle, next [the pieces of wood called] the عَرَاقِى; below them being the ظَلِفَتَانِ, which are the lower parts of the حِنْوَانِ of the وَاسِط and of the مُوءَخَّرَة. (O, L. [See ظَلِفَةٌ. In a similar manner, also, the term عَضُدَانِ is used in relation to a horse's saddle: see قَرَبُوسٌ.])

See also عَضَادٌ.