هدد

From the root ه د د‎ (h-d-d).

• IPA^(key): /had.da.da/

هَدَّدَ • (haddada) II, non-past يُهَدِّدُ‎‎ (yuhaddidu)

1. (transitive) to threaten
   1. (transitive, of a person) to make or utter a threat against (someone); to intimidate

      Synonym: تَوَعَّدَ‎ (tawaʕʕada)

      • (Can we date this quote?), Ahmad ibn Hanbal, quoting Abu Jahl, “Hadith #3044”, in شعيب الأرنؤوط, editor, Musnad Ahmad, volume 5 (in Arabic), Beirut: الرسالة, published 1995, page 167:

        ‏جَاءَ أَبُو جَهْلٍ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ وَهُوَ يُصَلِّي، فَنَهَاهُ، فَتَهَدَّدَهُ النَّبِيُّ؛ فَقَالَ: أَتُهَدِّدُنِي؟"‎‎

        jāʔa ʔabū jahlin ʔilā n-nabiyyi wahuwa yuṣallī, fanahāhu, fatahaddadahu n-nabiyyu; faqāla: ʔatuhaddidunī?"

        The Father of Ignorance [once] came to the Prophet while he [the Prophet] was praying, and he scolded him, and so the Prophet threatened him, upon which he said, "Are you threatening me?"

      • 1999 February 15, Al-Ahram:

        ‏صدام يهدد بمهاجمَة القواعد العسكريَة في السعوديَة والكويت‎

        Ṣaddām yuhaddidu bi-muhājamati al-qawāʿidi al-ʿaskariyyati fī al-suʿūdiyya wa-l-kuwayt.

        Saddam threatens to attack the military bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

   2. (transitive, of a thing) to pose a threat to (something or someone); to put (something or someone) at risk; to endanger; to imperil; to menace

• → Armenian: հաթաթա (hatʿatʿa)

• تَهَدَّدَ‎ (tahaddada)

From Arabic هَدَّدَ‎ (haddada).

• IPA^(key): /had.dad/, [ˈhad.dad]

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هدّد • (haddad) (form II, present بهدّد‎ (bihadded))

1. to threaten