Core sense — goods piled up in regular order; a couch-frame; glory, nobilitygenerated
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Goods, household items, or commodities put one upon another; or put together in regular order, or piled up; or the best of such things; or such things in general. The first meaning is the most fitting.
Plural أَنْضَادٌ.
1.1I saw a number of garments, and of beds or the like, put together in regular order, or piled up—رَأَيْتُ نَضَدًا مِنَ الثِّيَابِ والفُرُشِ
1.3a couch-frame, or raised couch, on which goods are piled up in regular order—نَضَدٌ
Explained as سَرِير.
Or simply a couch-frame, or raised couch, سرير, so called because such things are generally put on it.
Or a مِشْجَب, or something like it, on which garments and household goods are put one upon another, or together.
1.4figurative · مجازglory, honour, dignity, might, or nobility—نَضَدٌ
1.5figurative · مجازeminent, or noble—نَضَدٌ
Applied to a man. Plural أَنْضَادٌ.
1.6figurative · مجاز
Also, and the plural: a man's paternal and maternal uncles who stand out in nobility.
1.7figurative · مجاز
Also, the plural: the party, or company, and number, and helpers of a people, or of a man.
And the singular and plural: companies, or gathered bodies, of men.
1.8figurative · مجازa fat she-camel—نَضَدٌ
Likened to a couch-frame, or raised couch, on which are the things called نَضَد. Also نَضُودٌ.
1.9of mountains: stones lying one upon another—أَنْضَادٌ
Such stones as are called جَنَادِل.
Also, of clouds: portions piled up, one above another; singular نَضَدٌ.
Show Lane's original text
Goods, household-goods, or commodities, put one upon another: (S, L, K:) or, put, or set, together, (A, L,) in regular order, or piled up: (A:) or the best thereof: (L, K:) or such things in general: but the first meaning is the most appropriate: (L:) pl. أَنْضَادٌ . (S, L.) رَأَيْتُ نَضَدًا مِنَ الثِّيَابِ والفُرُشِ I saw a number of garments, or pieces of cloth, and of beds, or the like, put together in regular order, or piled up. (A.) See نَضِيدَةٌ . نَضَدٌ A couch-frame, or a raised couch, ( سَرِير ,) upon which goods, householdgoods, or commodities, are put one upon another, (S, L, K,) or put, or set, together, in regular order, or piled up: (A, L:) or simply, a couchframe, or raised couch; ( سرير ;) so called because the things so termed are generally put upon it: (L, Msb:) or a مِشْجَب , or a thing resembling this, upon which garments and household-goods are put, one upon another, or together. (L.) نَضَدٌ Glory; honour; dignity; might; or power; (A;) eminence; or nobility. (K.) نَضَدٌ Eminent; or noble: (L, K:) applied to a man: pl. أَنْضَادٌ . (L.) Also, (A, L,) and the pl., (S, A, L,) A man's paternal and maternal uncles (S, A, L) preëminent in nobility. (S, L.) Also, the pl., The party, or company, (L, K,) and number, (A, L, K,) and auxiliaries, or assistants, (A,) of a people, (L, K,) or of a man: (A:) and the sing. and pl., companies, or congregated bodies, of men. (A.) نَضَدٌ A fat she-camel; (K;) likened to a couch-frame, or a raised couch, upon which are the things termed نَضَد ; (TA;) as also نَضُودٌ . (K.) أَنْضَادٌ , of mountains, Stones, such as are called جَنَادِل , one upon another. (S, L, K.) Also, of clouds, Portions piled up, one above another: (S, L, K:) sing. نَضَدٌ . (L.)