كُدَّ

, aorist كَدُ3َ , (L,) verbal noun كَدٌّ, (S, L, K,) He toiled; or was, or became, vehement, or severe, (S, A, L, K,) in work; (S, A, L;) he worked laboriously; (TA;) he fatigued himself, and hastened, in his work. (L.) [You say] بِجَدِّكَ لَا بِكَدِّكَ By thy good fortune, not by thy toil, are things attained. A proverb. (L.) And لَا تَجْعَلْ عَيْشَهُمَا كَدًّ Make not the life of them two a toil. (L, from a tradition)

المَسَايءِلُ كَدٌّ يَكَدُّ بِهَا الرَّجُلُ وَجْهَهُ Petitions are [a cause of] dispiriting: a man thereby impairs the brightness of his countenance. (L, from a tradition)

-A2- كَدَّهُ, (L, K, aorist كَدُ3َ , verbal noun كَدٌّ, (L,) He required of him toil, or vehemence, or severity in work, or persevering or constant exertion in striving to do a thing or in seeking a thing; as also ↓ اكتدّهُ, and ↓ استكدّهُ: (L, K:) he fatigued or wearied or jaded him; (S, * L;) namely, a beast, and a man, &c.: (L;) [like دَكَّهُ;] he plied, or pressed him, plied or pressed him hard, or harassed him, in constant work which he imposed upon him, so as to fatigue or weary him. (Az, L.) See also كَدٌّ.

كَدَّ (tropical:) He fatigued his tongue with speaking and his heart with thinking. (A, L.)

كَدَّ, aorist كَدُ3َ , (L,) verbal noun كَدٌّ, (L, K,) He exerted himself perseveringly, assiduously, constantly, or incessantly, (L, K,) in striving to do, effect, or accomplish, a thing, (L,) or in seeking [a thing]. (K.)

كَدَّ, aorist كَدُ3َ , (L,) verbal noun كَدٌّ, (S, L,) He sought (S, L) gain, (S,) or, sustenance, or the means of subsistence. (L.)

-A3- كَدَّ, aorist كَدُ3َ , (L,) verbal noun كَدٌّ, (S, L, K,) He pointed, or made a sign, with the finger, (S, L, K,) like as the beggar does. (S.) [It is also transitive] El-Kumeyt says,

غَنِيتُ فَلَمْ أَرْدُدْكُمُ عِنْدَ بِغْيَةٍ

وَحُجْتُ فَلَمْ أَكْدُدْكُمُ بِالأَصَابِعِ

[I was rich, and I did not repel you on an occasion of exigency; and I was in want, and I did not point at you with the fingers]. (S, L.)

↓ كُدُّونِى فَإِنِّى مُكِدٌّ (tropical:) Ask ye of me; for I give [only] when asked. Said by Ibn-Hubeyreh. (A [but in my copy of that work, the first word is written كِدُّونِى.])

-A4- كَدَّ, [aorist كَدُ3َ .] (tropical:) He scratched, or scraped: (L:) he scraped off a soil from a garment: (TA:) he scratched perseveringly his head, and his skin, with his nails. (A.)

كَدَّ, (TA,) [aorist كَدُ3َ ,] verbal noun كَدٌّ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) He combed his head. (K, TA.)

كَدَّ, [aorist كَدُ3َ ,] (tropical:) He (a beast) trod the ground with his hoofs. (A, * L.)

-A5- كدّهُ, (aorist كَدُ3َ , L,) He pulled or drew it out (i. e. a solid or a fluid thing) with his hand; as also ↓ اكتدّهُ. (L, K.)