لكد

Arabic

Etymology

Root
ل ك د (l-k-d)

Related to لَكَزَ (lakaza), cognate with Hebrew לָכַד (lakád, “to capture, to seize”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

لَكِدَ • (lakida) I, non-past يَلْكُدُ‎ (yalkudu)

1. to strike, to hit, to kick

   Synonym: ضَرَبَ (ḍaraba)

2. to adhere, to stick (construed with عَلَى (ʕalā))

   Synonym: لَصِقَ (laṣiqa)

3. to collect, to accumulate

   Synonym: قَبَضَ (qabaḍa)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “لكد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 122
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لكد”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1020
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “لكد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2671
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لكد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 926