مداد

From the root م د د‎ (m-d-d), whence مَدَّ‎ (madda, “to extend, stretch, spread out”).

• IPA^(key): /mi.daːd/

مِدَاد • (midād) m (plural أَمِدَّة‎ (ʔamidda))

1. ink

   Synonym: حِبْر‎ (ḥibr)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:109:

     ‏قُل لَّوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِّكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا‎

     Say, "If the sea were ink for [writing] the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it as a supplement."

2. dung, manure

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:براز

3. lamp oil

• Moroccan Arabic: مداد‎ (mdād)
• → Persian: مداد‎ (medâd)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “مداد”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 573–574
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “مداد”, 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1076
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “مداد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1192

From Arabic مِدَاد‎ (midād).

• IPA^(key): /mdaːd/

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مداد • (mdād) m (plural مدادات‎ (mdādāt))

1. ink

Borrowed from Arabic مِدَاد‎ (midād, “ink”). Displaced native زکاب‎ (zakâb).

مداد • (medâd)

1. pencil

   Synonym: زکاب‎ (zakâb)

• قلم مداد‎ (qalem-e medâd)

• مداد رنگی‎ (medâd-e rangi)
• مداد نقاشی‎ (medâd-e naqâši)