حمــد
1 حَمِــدَهُ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. حَمْــدٌ (
S,
L,
Msb,
K) and مَـ
ـحْمَــدٌ and مَـ
ـحْمِــدٌ (
L,
K) and مَـ
ـحْمَــدَةٌ (
S,
L,
K) and مَـ
ـحْمِــدَةٌ; (
L,
K, and so in a copy of the
S;) the last of these
inf. ns. [and the third also]
extr.; (
L;) or the last is an
inf. n. and the last but one signifies “ a praiseworthy quality,” or “ a quality for which one is praised; ” (ElFenáree,
MF;) or the last may be a simple
subst.; (
Har p. 392;) He praised, eulogized, or commended, him; spoke well of him; mentioned him with approbation; (
Akh,
S,
L,
Msb;) عَلَى كَذَا for such a thing; (
L,
Msb;)
contr. of ذَمَّهُ: (
S,
L:)
accord. to
IAmb, formed by
transposition from مَدَحَ: (marginal note in a copy of the
MS:) but it is of less common application than the latter verb; (
Msb in art. مدح;) signifying he praised him, &c., for something depending on his (the latter's) own will: thus, the describing a pearl as clear is not
حَمْــدٌ, but it is مَدْحٌ: (
Kull p. 150:) or
i. q. شَكَرَهُ: (
Lh,
K:) but it differs [sometimes] from this; (
Msb;) for شُكْرٌ is only on account of favour received; whereas
حَمْــدٌ is sometimes because of favour received, (
Th,
Az,
Msb,) and sometimes from other causes; (
Th;) [and thus] the latter is of more common application than the former; (
S;) therefore you do not say, شَكَرْتُهُ عَلَى شَجَاعَتِهِ; but you say,
حَمِــدْتُهُ على شجاعته I praised him, &c., for his courage. (
Msb.)
حمــد also implies admiration: and it implies the magnifying, or honouring, of the object thereof; and lowliness, humility, or submissiveness, in the person who offers it; as in the saying of the afflicted, الـ
ـحَمْــدُ لِلّٰهِ Praise be to God; since in this case there is no worldly blessing, favour, or benefit. (
Msb.) This last phrase is generally pronounced as it is written above: but some of the Arabs are related to have pronounced it الـ
ـحَمْــدَ لِلّٰهِ, putting the former word in the
accus. case as the absolute complement of the verb أَـ
ـحْمَــدُ understood: and others, الـ
ـحَمْــدِلِلّٰهِ; assimilating the final vowel of the former word to the vowel immediately following it: and others, الـ
ـحَمْــدُ لُلّٰهِ; assimilating the first vowel in للّٰه to the vowel immediately preceding it:
Zj, however, disapproves of the latter two modes of pronouncing it: some of them also said, بَدَأْتُ بِالـ
ـحَمْــدُ لِلّٰهِ, meaning I began with the saying Praise be to God. (
L.) [See also
حَمْــدٌ below.] You say, أَـ
ـحْمَــدُ إِلَيْكَ اللّٰهَ I praise God (
Az,
A, *
L,
K) to thee, or in thy presence: (
L:) or with thee: (
Kh,
Az:) or I praise to thee God's benefits, and his blessings, or favours; or I praise to thee God's blessings, or favours, and discourse to thee of them. (
L.) And
حَمِــدَ لَهُ أَمْرًا (
tropical:) He approved of a thing for him. (
L,
K. *) And
حَمِــدَ إِلَيْهِ أَمْرًا (
tropical:) He approved of a thing for him, and commanded, or enjoined, him to do it. (
L.) and جاوَرْتُهُ فَمَا
حَمِــدْتُ جِوَارَهُ (
tropical:) [I became his neighbour, and did not approve of being so]. (
A.) See also 4.
b2: Also, (
aor. and
inf. n. as above in the beginning of this art.,
K,) He recompensed, or requited, him: he gave him, or paid him, his due. (
L,
K.)
A2: حَمِــدَ عَلَيْهِ,
aor. ـَ (
L,
K, *)
inf. n. حَمَــدٌ, (
TA,) He was angry with him. (
L,
K.) 2
حمّــد,
inf. n. تَـ
ـحْمِــيدٌ, has a more intensive signification than
حَمــدَ; (
S;) [He declared the praises of God: or] he praised God much, with good forms of praise (بِالمَحَامِدِ الحَسَنَةِ): (
T,
L:) or repeatedly; or time after time. (
L,
K.) تـ
ـحمــيد [used as a simple
subst.] has a
pl., namely, تَحَامِيدُ. (
A.) [See an
ex. voce خَاتَمٌ, in the latter part of the paragraph.]
4 ا
حمــد He (a man,
S) came to a state, or result, such as was praised, or commended, or approved; properly, his affair, or case, came to such a state or result: (
S,
L,
K:) or (so in the
K, but in the
L “ and ”) he did, or said, that for which he should be praised, or commended; or that which was praiseworthy, or commendable; (
A,
L,
K; *)
contr. of أَذَمَّ. (
A.) And ا
حمــد أَمْرُهُ (assumed
tropical:) His affair, or case, was, or became, praiseworthy, or approvable, in his estimation: (
K:) or ا
حمــد أَمْرَهُ (as in the
L) he esteemed his affair, or case, praiseworthy, or approvable. (
L [agreeably with what next follows].)
A2: ا
حمــدهُ He found him (a man,
A,
L) [or it] to be such as is praised, commended, or approved; or praiseworthy, commendable, or approvable; (
S,
A,
L,
Msb;)
contr. of أَذَمَّهُ: (
TA in art. ذم:) he made it manifest that he was worthy of praise, eulogy, commendation, or approbation: (
L:) he approved of his action, and his course of conduct, or his tenet or tenets, and did not expose it, or them, to others. (
K.) And أَـ
ـحْمَــدْتُ صَنِيعَهُ (
tropical:) [I found his action to be praiseworthy, or commendable, or approvable]. (
A.) And ا
حمــد الأَرْضَ (
tropical:) He approved the land as a dwelling-place: (
A:) or he found the land to be such as is praised, commended, or approved; as also ↓
حَمِــدَهَا; (
L,
K;) but the former verb is the more chaste in this sense. (
L.) And ا
حمــد مَوْضِعًا (
tropical:) He found a place to be such as is praised, commended, or approved, and convenient, or suitable, so that he approved it as a dwelling-place, or for its pasture. (
S,
L.) 5 تـ
ـحمّــد He affected, or made a show of, (تَكَلَّفَ,) praise. (
A.) You say, ↓ وَجَدْتُهُ مُتَـ
ـحَمِّــدًا مُتَشَكِّرًا [I found him affecting, or making a show of, praise and thanks]. (
A.)
b2: He praised himself. (
KL.) [Golius assigns this meaning to ↓ احتمد, as on the authority of the
KL; but it is not assigned to this verb in my copy of the
KL.]
b3: فُلَانٌ يَتَـ
ـحَمَّــدُ النّاس [
app. a slight mistranscription, for لِلنَّاسِ,
i. q. إِلَى النَّاسِ, as in an
ex. in the next sentence but one,] Such a one pretends to men, or shows them, that he is praiseworthy, بِجُودِهِ for his liberality. (
L.)
b4: تـ
ـحمّــد عَلَيْهِ He reproached him for a favour, or benefit, which he (the former) had bestowed, or conferred; or recounted his gifts, or actions, to him;
syn. اِمْتَنَّ. (
S,
L,
K.) One says, مَنْ أَنْفَقَ مَالَهُ عَلَى
نَفْسِهِ فَلَا يَتَـ
ـحَمَّــدْ بِهِ عَلَى النَّاسِ [Whoso expends his property upon himself, he shall not reproach men therewith as for favours, or benefits, bestowed]: (
S, A:) or فلا يتـ
ـحمّــد بِه إِلَى النَّاسِ [he shall not pretend to men that he is praiseworthy on account of it]: a
prov., meaning that a man is not praised for his beneficence to himself, but for his beneficence to others. (
L.) 6 تحامدوا (
tropical:) [They praised, or commended, a thing, one to another]. You say, الرُّعَآءُ يَتَحَامَدُونَ الكَلَأَ (
tropical:) [The pastors praise, or commend, one to another, the herbage]. (
A.) 8 احتمد: see 5.
A2: Said of heat, [It burned, or burned fiercely; or was, or became, vehement:] formed by
transposition from احتدم. (
S.) 10 اِسْتَـ
ـحْمِــدِ اللّٰهَ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ بِإِحْسَانِهِ إِلَيْهِمْ وإِنْعَامِهِ عَلَيْهِمْ [so I find it written, as though meaning Demand thou, of his creatures, the praising of God, by reason of his beneficence to them, and his bounty to them: but I think that we should read اِسْتَـ
ـحْمَــدَ اللّٰهُ, and that the meaning is, God hath demanded praise of his creatures by his beneficence, &c.]. (
A.)
حَمْــدٌ Praise, eulogy, or commendation; &c. (
S, &c. [For further explanations of this word, and respecting the phrase الـ
ـحَمْــدُ لِلّٰهِ and its variations, see 1: and see also شَكَرَ.]) سُبْحَانَكَ اللّٰهُمَّ وَبِـ
ـحَمْــدِكَ, said by a person praying, means [I extol, or celebrate, or declare, thy remoteness, or freedom, from every impurity, or imperfection, &c., O God, (see art. سبح,)] and I begin with praising Thee; أَبْتَدِئُ being understood: (
Az,
L,
Msb:) or by بـ
ـحمــدك is meant الـ
ـحَمْــدُ لَكَ praise be to Thee: and nearly the same is said in explanation of the phrase in the
Kur [ii. 28], نُسَبِّحُ بِـ
ـحَمْــدِكَ, that by بـ
ـحمــدك is meant حَامِدِينَ لَكَ: [see, again, art. سبح:] or by the expression وبـ
ـحمــدك is meant,
accord. to Aboo-'Othmán ElMázinee, and by praising Thee I extol thy remoteness, or freedom, from every impurity, &c.; سَبَّحْتُكَ being understood: or the و is redundant, as it is in the phrase, رَبَّنَاوَلَكَ الـ
ـحَمْــدُ [O our Lord, praise be to Thee], in which the و is sometimes omitted: or,
accord. to Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, the و is
corroborative, as in the phrase, وَهُوَ لَكَ, for هُوَ لَكَ. (
Msb.) لِوَآءُ الـ
ـحَمْــدِ بِيَدِى يَوْمَ القِيَامَةِ [The standard of praise shall be in my hand on the day of resurrection (said by Mohammad)] means that he shall be singularly distinguished by praise, or praising, on that day. (
L.)
b2: See
حَمَــادِ:
b3: and
حُمَــادَاكَ.
A2: See also
حَمِــيدٌ.
A3: It is also said to signify The young one of the kind of bird called قَطًا: so in the
prov.,
حمْــدُ قَطَاةٍ يَسْتَمِى الأَرَانِبَ A young one of a katà desires to make the hares its prey: applied to a weak man who desires to insnare a strong one. (
Meyd,
TA.)
A4: See also what next follows.
حَمَــدَةٌ The sound of the flaming, or blazing, of fire; (
S,
K;) as also حَدَمَةٌ [from which it is formed by
transposition: see 8: and ↓
حَمْــدٌ
app. signifies the same: see حَدْمٌ]. (
TA.)
حُمَــدَةٌ: see
حَمَّــادٌ.
حَمَــادِ لَهُ Praise, and thanks, be to him: (
S,
L,
K:) i. e., to such a one: (
S,
L:)
contr. of جَمَادِ لَهُ [
q. v.]. (
S and A in art. جمد.)
حَمَــادِ is
indecl., with kesr for its termination, because it deviates from its original, which is the
inf. n. [↓ الـ
ـحَمْــدُ]: (
S,
L:) [i. e.,] it is [a quasi-
inf. n., (see اِسْمُ مَصْدَرٍ in art. صدر,) being] a proper name for المَـ
ـحْمَــدَةُ [as
syn. with الـ
ـحَمْــدُ]. (Sharh Shudhoor edh-Dhahab.)
حَمُــودٌ: see what next follows.
حَمِــيدٌ and ↓ مَـ
ـحْمُــودٌ (
S,
A,
L,
K) and ↓
حَمُــودٌ (as in copies of the
K, but this seems to be an intensive
epithet,) Praised, eulogized, or commended; spoken well of; mentioned with approbation; approved; such as is praised, &c.; praiseworthy, laudable; commendable, or approvable: (
S,
L,
K: [in which, as well as in numberless exs., all these significations are clearly indicated, though not so clearly explained; the Arabic words to which they apply exactly agreeing with the Latin “ laudatus,” which means both “ praised ” and “ praiseworthy: ”]) the
fem. of the first is with ة, (
L,
K,) because the signification, though properly that of a
pass. part. n., nearly agrees with that of an
act. part. n.: (
L:) you say, [هِىَ
حَمِــيدَةٌ She is praised, &c.; and] أَفْعَالُهُ
حَمِــيدَةٌ (
tropical:) [His actions are praised, &c.]. (
A.) ↓
حَمْــدٌ, also, [originally an
inf. n., like its contr.
ذَمٌّ,] used as an
epithet applied to a man, is
syn. with مَـ
ـحْمُــودٌ; (
K;) and as an
epithet applied to a woman,
syn. with مَـ
ـحْمُــودَةٌ, (
TA,) as is also
حَمْــدَةٌ: (
K,
TA:) and you likewise say مَنْزِلٌ
حَمْــدٌ (
K) and مَنْزِلَهٌ
حَمْــدَةٌ (
Lh) (assumed
tropical:) A place where one alights, sojourns, or abides, such as is praised, or approved, (
K,
TA,) and convenient, or suitable. (
TA.) الـ
ـحَمِــيدُ, meaning He who is praised, or praiseworthy, in every case, is an
epithet applied to God; one of the names termed الأَسْمَآءُ الحُسْنَى. (
L.) ↓ المَقَامُ المَـ
ـحْمُــودُ [mentioned in the
Kur xvii. 81] means (assumed
tropical:) The station in which its occupant shall be praised by all creatures [on the day of resurrection] because of his being quickly reckoned with, and relieved from long standing: or it is the station of the intercessor. (
L.)
حُمَــادَاكَ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا (
S,
L,
K *) and ↓
حَمْــدُكَ (
L) The utmost of thy power, or of thine ability, [or the utmost of thy praiseworthy actions, (see an
ex. of the
pl. in what follows,) will be] thy doing such a thing;
syn. مَبْلَغُ جَهْدِكَ, (
L,) or قُصَارَاكَ, (
S,
L,) and غَايَتُكَ: (
S,
L,
K:) and in like manner,
حُمَــادِى The utmost of my power, &c. (
K.)
حُمَــادَيَاتُ النِّسَآءِ غَضُّ الطَّرْفِ, said by Umm-Selemeh, means The utmost of the praiseworthy qualities of women is the lowering of the eye. (
L.)
حَمَّــادٌ (
TA) and ↓
حُمَــدَةٌ (
A,
K) A man (
TA) who praises things much; a great, or frequent, praiser: (
A,
K,
TA:) or the latter, a man who praises things much and extravagantly. (
S.) You say, إِنَّهُ لَـ
ـحَمَّــادٌ لِلّٰهِ Verily he is one who praises God much, or repeatedly, or time after time. (
L,
K.) العَوْدُ أَـ
ـحْمَــدُ is a
prov., (
S,) meaning (
tropical:) Repetition is more attributive of praise (أَكْثَرُ
حَمْــدًا): (
S,
A,
K:) for generally you do not desire to return to a thing save after experience, or knowledge, [and approbation,] thereof: [the act of returning, therefore, implies praise:] or the meaning is, when one begins a kind act, he attracts praise to himself; and when one repeats, he gains more praise for himself: or ا
حمــد is from the
pass. part. n., and the meaning is, the beginning is praised, or praiseworthy; and repetition is more deserving of being praised. (
K.) [See Freytag's Arab.
Prov. ii. 130]
مَـ
ـحْمَــدَةٌ (
S,
Mgh) and مَـ
ـحْمِــدَةٌ (
Mgh) (assumed
tropical:) [A cause of praise, commendation, or approval; a praiseworthy, commendable, or approvable, quality or action;] a thing for which one is, or is to be, praised, commended, or approved: (
Mgh:) [see 1, first sentence:]
contr. of مَذَمَّةٌ: (
S:) [
pl. مَحَامِدُ.] You say, هٰذَا طَعَامٌ لَيْسَتْ عِنْدَهُ مَـ
ـحْمِــدَةٌ, with kesr to the second م, (
tropical:) [This is food in which is no approvable quality;] the eating of which is not approved. (
A.)
b2: [The
pl.] مَحَامِدُ signifies [also] (assumed
tropical:) Forms of praise. (
Msb in art. جمع; &c.) [See 2.]
مُـ
ـحَمَّــدٌ A man praised much, or repeatedly, or time after time: (
L,
K:) endowed with many praiseworthy qualities. (
S,
L.) مَـ
ـحْمُــودٌ: see
حَمِــيدٌ, in two places.
يَوْمٌ مُحْتَمِدٌ A day intensely, or vehemently, hot: (
K:) as also مُحْتَدِمٌ [from which it is formed by
transposition: see 8]. (
TA.) مُتَـ
ـحَمِّــدٌ: see 5.
