عود

From ع و د‎ (ʕ-w-d) meaning to bend or be flexible, to return, to be supple.[1] See also aloe, lute.

The sense “oud, lute” is of uncertain origin, possibly from Middle Persian lwt' (rōd, “string; stringed instrument; barbat”) (> Persian رود‎ (rud)).

The instrument sense of the word derives as an Arabic version of the Persian بربط‎ (barbat), that featured a smaller more curved neck with greater tension, as well as a larger rounded belly created from steam-bent strips of wood. The Barbat was carved from one solid piece of wood, the larger size of the oud's belly was something not previously possible before the further development of using hot moisture to aid in bending thin strips. This characteristic technique became the traditional source of the instruments name;[2] for more see Oud and Barbat.

However there is a cognate instrument Ugaritic 𐎓𐎄 (ʿd, “lute, an instrument”) 1000's of years prior to this[3], identified as an early chordophone with connection to the Sumerian 𒄑𒅗𒁲 (gu₃.di, “instruments in general, a lute”, literally “wood that has voice”)[4][5] This precursor to ouds and guitars was constructed of strings laid on a wood-staff that ran through the whole body of the instrument attached to a simple drum-like resonating body; as strings of lyres and drums were used prior, the distinguishing feature was this wooden rod.

• IPA^(key): /ʕuːd/

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عُود • (ʕūd) m (plural أَعْوَاد‎ (ʔaʕwād) or عِيدَان‎ (ʕīdān))

1. wood, timber
2. stick, rod, pole
3. branch, twig
4. stem, stalk
5. cane, reed
6. aloe, agarwood, any plant with high moisture content
   • a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, editor, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات [ʿajāʾib al-maḵlūqāt wa-ḡarāʾib al-mawjūdāt]‎, Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, page 260:

     ‏عود شجرة تنبت في جزائر بحر الهند عروقها تقلع وتدفن في الأرض حتى تتعفن منها الحشية فيبقى العود الخالص قال شيخ الرئيس مضعة يطيب النكهة وينفع الدماغ جدَّا ويقوّي الحواسّ والقلب ويفرحه وتدخينه بالسكر طيب جدَّا والسكر يقوّي رائحته وشراب العود طارد للرياح المؤلمة.‎‎

     Agalloch is a tree that grows in islands of the Indian sea and its roots are extracted and buried in the earth until they rot, of it one makes a stuffing and it stays pure, Šayḵ ar-Raʾīs says that a bit of it already is of nice smell and assists the brain in a serious extent and strengthens the senses and the heart and rejoices it and when smoked with sugar it is also very nice, sugar strengthens its smell and the syrup of agalloch expectorates doloriferous winds.[6]

7. thin strip of wood, veneer
8. (music) oud, lute
9. body, build, physique
10. strength, specifically tensile strength, force, intensity

Verbal noun of عَادَ‎ (ʕāda, “to return”), from the root ع و د‎ (ʕ-w-d).

• IPA^(key): /ʕawd/

عَوْد • (ʕawd) m

1. verbal noun of عَادَ‎ (ʕāda) (form I)
2. return
3. reversion, recurrence
4. (law) recidivism
5. repetition, reiteration
   • a. 1274, Ibn Malik, Alfiyyah, verses 559–560:

     ‏وَعَوْدُ خَافِضٍ لَدَى عَطْفٍ عَلَى / ضَمِيرِ خَفْضٍ لَازِمًا قَدْ جُعِلَا / وَلَيْسَ عِنْدِي لَازِمًا إِذْ قَدْ أَتَى / فِي ٱلنَّظْمِ وَٱلنَّثْرِ الصَّحِيحِ مُثْبَتَا‎

     waʕawdu ḵāfiḍin ladā ʕaṭfin ʕalā / ḍamīri ḵafḍin lāziman qad juʕilā / walaysa ʕindī lāziman ʔiḏ qad ʔatā / fī n-naẓmi wan-naṯri ṣ-ṣaḥīḥi muṯbatā

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6. camel trained to be ridden
   • p. 700, a forger of Imruʾ al-Qays, سما لكَ شوقٌ بعدما كان أقصر :

     ‏وَإِنِّي زَعِيمٌ (var. أَذِينٌ) إِنْ رَجِعْتُ مُمَلَّكٌ / بِسَيْرٍ تَرَى مِنْهُ الفُرَانِقَ أَزْوَرَا
     عَلَى لَاحِبٍ لَا يَهْتَدِي بِمَنَارِهِ / إِذَا سَافَهُ الْعَوْدُ النُّبَاطِيُّ (var. دِيَافِيُّ) جَرْجَرَا
     عَلَى كُلِّ مَقْصُوصِ الذُنَابَى مُعَاوِدٍ / بَرِيدَ السَرَى بِاللَيْلِ مِن خَيْلِ بَرْبَرَا‎

     wa-ʔinnī zaʕīmun (var. ʔaḏīnun) ʔin rajiʕtu mumallakun / bi-sayrin tarā minhu l-furāniqa ʔazwarā
     ʕalā lāḥibin lā yahtadī bi-manāri-hī / ʔiḏā sāfa-hū l-ʕawdu n-nubāṭiyyu (var. diyāfiyyu) jarjarā
     ʕalā kulli maqṣūṣi ḏ-ḏunābā muʕāwidin / barīda s-sarā bi-l-layli min ḵayli barbarā

     And when I am the leader, back in the kingly rights, I trip so fast that you but see asquint the courier
     on an open road guided by no waymark, when it is smelled by the Nabataean camel dragging forward
     on every clipped bird-tail returning nocturnal journey’s mail by night from a horse that whinnied.

7. worn road

• (Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /ʕoːd/

عود • (ʿōd)

1. big, large

   Synonym: كبير‎ (kbīr)

عود • (ʿōd) m

1. (Kuwait, colloquial) (with الـ‎ (il-)) Emir of Kuwait

• (Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /ʕuːd/

عود • (ʿūd) m (plural اَعْواد‎ (aʿwād) or عيدان‎ (ʿīdān))

1. drinking straw
2. oud, lute
3. incense

• (Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /ʕəwːəd/

عَوَّد • (ʿawwad) (non-past يعود‎ (iʿawwid))

1. to make someone get used to something or someone

   ‏عودنا عليك‎

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From Arabic عُود‎ (ʕūd).

• IPA^(key): /ʕuːd/

عود • (ʕūd) m (plural عواد‎ (ʕwād))

1. wood, timber
2. stick
3. branch, twig
4. (music) oud, lute

From Arabic عَوْد‎ (ʕawd, “camel trained to be ridden”).

• IPA^(key): /ʕawd/

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عود • (ʕawd) m (plural عودان‎ (ʕawdān))

1. horse

   Synonyms: حصان‎ (ḥiṣān), خيل‎ (ḵīl, ḵayl)

• اود‎ (öd)

From Arabic عُود‎ (ʕūd).

عود • (öd)

1. wood, piece of wood or timber; stick, wand, etc.
2. aloeswood, agarwood, agalloch
3. oud, lute

• عود آغاجی‎ (öd ağacı)

• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “عود”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1327

• Rhymes: -uːd

From Arabic عُود‎ (ʕūd, “aromatic wood”).

عود • ('ud)

1. incense

From Arabic عُود‎ (ʕūd, “wood; lute”).

عود • ('ud) (plural عودها‎ ('ud-hâ))

1. (music) oud, lute, barbat

   Synonym: بربط‎ (barbat)

From Arabic عَوَّدَ‎ (ʕawwada).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaw.wad/, [ˈʕaw.wad]

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عوّد • (ʕawwad) (form II, present بعوّد‎ (biʕawwed))

1. (transitive) to accustom

From Arabic عُود‎ (ʕūd).

• IPA^(key): /ʕuːd/, [ʕuːd]

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عود • (ʕūd) m (plural عيدان‎ (ʕīdān))

1. branch, piece of wood

• عودة‎ (ʕūde, “stick, twig”)

عود • (ʕūd) m (plural أعواد‎ (ʔaʕwād))

1. oud, lute