كدح
1 كَدَحَ,
aor. ـَ (
inf. n. كَدْحٌ,
S,) He worked or wrought; laboured; employed himself actively;
syn. سَعَى; (
S,
K;) and عَمِلَ: (
S:) he wrought for himself good or evil: (
K:) he was eager, and strove, laboured, or exerted himself, and wearied himself, in work, in the affairs relating to the present world and in those relating to the world to come: (
Zj:) he toiled, or laboured hard. (
S,
K.) هُوَ يَكْدَحُ فِى كَذَا He toils, or labours hard, in such a thing, or affair. (
S.)
b2: كَدَحَ لِعِيَالِهِ, and ↓ اكتدح, He sought, sought after, or sought to gain, sustenance; or he gained, acquired, or earned; for his family, or household;
syn. كَسَبَ, (
S,
K,) or اكتسب. (
L.)
A2: كَدَحَ وَجْهَهُ It (a thing,
S) scratched, or lacerated, his face: (
S,
K:) or did to his face that which disfigured it, or rendered it ugly or unseemly: as also ↓ كدّحهُ, (
K,)
inf. n. تَكْدِيحٌ: (
TA:) or كدّح,
inf. n. تكديح, signifies it scratched, or lacerated, much, or many times, or in many places: (
S:) also [so in the
L; but in the
K, or] كَدَحَ in the phrase كَدَحَ وَجْهَهُ signifies أَفْسَدَ; (
K;) you say كَدَحَ وَجْهَ أَمْرِهِ, meaning he marred his affair. (
L.)
b2: كَدَحَ رَأْسَهُ He separated his hair with a comb. (
K.) 2 كَدَّحَ see 1.
5 تكدّح It (the skin) became scratched, or lacerated, much, or many times, or in many places. (
S,
K.)
b2: وَقَعَ مِنَ السَّطْحِ فَتَكَدَّحَ He fell from the flat top, or roof, of the house, and became much broken [in his skin]. (
L.) كَدْحٌ A scratch, or laceration, of the skin;
i. q. خَدْشٌ: (
S,
K:) or a كَدْح is more (or larger,
L) than a خَدْش: (
S:) any mark made by scratching or biting: (
IAth:)
pl. كُدُوحٌ. (
S,
K.)
Ex. بِهِ كَدْحٌ, (
S,
K,) and كُدُوحٌ, (
S,) He has upon him a scratch, &c. (
S,
K.) إِنَّكَ كَادِحٌ إِلَى رَبِّكَ, [
Kur lxxxiv. 6,] Verily thou workest, or labourest, (
S,) or, workest for thyself good or evil, (
TA,) or, strivest, or labourest, in thy work until the meeting of thy Lord, i. e., until death. (
Jel.) حِمَارٌ مُكَدَّحٌ An ass much lacerated by the bites of other asses. (
S,
K.) A wild ass is termed مكدّح because he is lacerated by the bites of other asses. (
A'Obeyd.)
