قد

Cognate to Hebrew קָדַד (qāḏaḏ), Aramaic קָדַד (qāḏaḏ, “to cut out”), Classical Syriac ܩܰܕ (qadd, “to tear or cut away”), Ge'ez ቀደ (ḳäddä, “to cut open, to tear apart”), Mehri ḳdd (“to shave off, to cut off, to scalp”).

• IPA^(key): /qad.da/

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قَدَّ • (qadda) I, non-past يَقُدُّ‎ (yaquddu)

1. to cut into strips
2. to cut off, to chop off
3. to cut out

• IPA^(key): /qadd/

قَدّ • (qadd) m (plural قِدَاد (qidād) or قُدُود (qudūd) or أَقُدّ (ʔaqudd) or أَقِدَّة (ʔaqidda))

1. verbal noun of قَدَّ (qadda) (form I)
2. cutting, cutting off
3. size, stature, figure
4. length
5. definite measure or quantity
6. equal of a person or thing
7. lambskin
8. strip, shred
9. split
10. caesura

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From the root ق د د (q-d-d) in the sense of being a thing separated or cut apart, a thing distinct with its own measure and shape, a defined piece; extended semantically to a secure definite thing, a certainty, hence the past tense implying a thing has already been set or definitive.

The non-past tense stems from the idea of something intended, likely expected, planned to be, measured to occur, or cut out to happen.

• IPA^(key): /qad/

قَدْ • (qad)

1. (in the past tense) Indicates nearness in time or recentness, recently, just now

   قَدْ وَصَلَ ― qad waṣala ― he has arrived; he had arrived

   كَانَ (قَدْ) وَصَلَ ― kāna (qad) waṣala ― he had arrived

   سَيَكُونُ (قَدْ) وَصَلَ ― sayakūnu (qad) waṣala ― he will have arrived

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 3:143:

     وَلَقَدْ كُنتُمْ تَمَنَّوْنَ الْمَوْتَ مِن قَبْلِ أَن تَلْقَوْهُ فَقَدْ رَأَيْتُمُوهُ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونَ

     You used to wish for death before you could meet it, and just now, you could see it when were looking ahead.

2. (in the non-past tense) Indicates nonveridicality, might, could, may

   قَدْ يَكُونُ كَذٰلِكَ ― qad yakūnu kaḏālika ― It may be so.

   إِنْ سَأَلْتَهُ ٱلْمَالَ فَقَدْ يُعْطِيكَ. ― ʔin saʔaltahu l-māla faqad yuʕṭīka. ― If you ask him for money, he may give you.

3. (in the non-past tense, obsolete) Expresses emphasis
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:18:

     قَدْ يَعْلَمُ اللَّهُ الْمُعَوِّقِينَ مِنكُمْ وَالْقَائِلِينَ لِإِخْوَانِهِمْ هَلُمَّ إِلَيْنَا ۖ وَلَا يَأْتُونَ الْبَأْسَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا

     God does know the hinderers among you and the ones telling their brethren, "Over here!" These fight in wars only rarely.

• لَقَدْ (laqad)

• Judeo-Arabic: קד (qad)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قد”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Borrowed from English cod, as the range of the fish does not overlap with typical Arabic-speaking areas; compare Hebrew קוד (kod, “cod”). Compare also its other names مُورَة (mūra, “cod”) borrowed from French morue, and غادُس (ḡādus, “cod”) borrowed from Latin gadus (“generic term for fish; cod”).

• IPA^(key): /qudd/

قُدّ • (qudd) m

1. cod (the fish)

• IPA^(key): /qud/

قُدْ • (qud) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of قَادَ (qāda)

• “qdd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 404
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “قد”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 682
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “قد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1003

From Arabic قَدّ (qadd).

• IPA^(key): /ɡadd/

قَدّ • (gadd) m

1. amount, size, quantity, extent
2. the same amount as; the same size/age as; as big as; as much as; as many as

   مَحَمَّد قَدّ أحمد

   maḥmmad gadd ʔaḥmad

   Mahammad is as old as Ahmad

From Arabic قَدْ (qad).

• IPA^(key): /ɡid/, /ɡad/

قِد or قد • (gid or gad)

1. already

   Synonym: قيد (gīd) (different pronunciation)

   قِدْ كَلَّمْتُه عَنْ المَوْضُوع

   gid kallamtu ʿan almawḍūʿ

   I've [already] spoken to him about the topic

قد • (transliteration needed) m

1. height

From Arabic قَدّ (qadd).

• IPA^(key): /ʔadd/

قَدّ • (ʔadd) m

1. amount, size, quantity, extent
2. the same amount as; the same size/age as; as big as; as much as; as many as

From Arabic قَدّ (qadd).

قد • (qad)

1. height, size, stature

• (archaic) بشن (bašn)

• قد بلند (qad-e boland)
• قد کوتاه (qad-e kutâh)

Borrowed from Classical Persian قَد (qad), from Arabic قَدّ (qadd).

قد • (qad) m (Hindi spelling क़द)

1. height, stature