مِدَادٌ

Anything that is added in a thing, because of its utility: this is the original signification according to old lexicologists. (MF.)

Ink; synonym نِقْسٌ (S, L, K) and حِبْرٌ; (MF;) that with which one writes: (L, Msb:) so called because it aids the writer: (IAmb, L:) this is the common acceptation of the word. (MF.)

مِدَادٌ (or مِدَادُ السِّرَاجِ, A) Oil (or the like, K) that is put into a lamp. (A, L, K.)

مِدَادٌ (or مِدَادٌ الأَرْضِ, A) Dung: (A, K:) or manure composed of dung and ashes, or of earth or dust and dung, or of strong earth; and simply earth or dust; and sand. (L.)

مِدَادٌ A row of trees; not of palm-trees. (IAar, in TA, voce أُسْكُوبٌ, q. v.)

A mode, manner, fashion, and form. (L, K.) Ex. بَنَوْا بُيُوتَهُمْ عَلَى مِدَادٍ وَاحِدٍ They built their houses after one mode, &c. (L.)

مِدَادُ قَيْسٍ A certain game (T, K) of the Arabs, (K,) or of children. (T.)

يَنْبَعِثُ فِى الحَوْضِ مِيزَابَانِ مِدَادُهُمَا أَنْهَارُ الجَنَّةِ [Two pipes, or spouts, whereof the sources (lit. the source) of the supply are the rivers of paradise, pour into the pond which is without its precincts]; i. e., the rivers of paradise flow into those pipes, or spouts, and increase their flow, or make it copious, or abundant. (L, K. *)

مِدَادٌ singular of أَمِدَّةٌ, (L,) which signifies The large needles (مَسَالُّ, M, L, TT; in the CK and a MS copy of the K, مِسَاك; in the TA, مَسَاك) [which are inserted] in the two sides of a piece of cloth when its manufacture is commenced. (M, L, TT, K.)

Also, the plural, The threads which compose the warp of a web. (K.)