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أَمْيَدَ 5, and 6: see 1.

امتادهُ He asked him, or desired him, to give him. (L.) ― -b2- امتادهُ He asked or desired him to bring him wheat, or food. (A.)

مَيْدَ a dial. form of بَيْدَ , (S,) in the sense of غَيْر : (S, L;) and in that of عَلَى : (L:) or that of مِنْ أَجْلِ . (S, L.) It is said in a trad., أَنَا أَفْصَحُ العَرَبِ مَيْدَ أَنِّى مِنْ قُرَيْشٍ وَنَشَأْتُ فِى بَنِى سَعْدِ بْنِ بَكْرٍ [rendered in art. بيد ]. (S, L.) See what next follows.

فَعَلْتُهُ مَيْدَا ذٰلِكَ , (M, K,) or مَيْدَ ذلك , (L,) I did it on account, or for the sake, of that. (M, L, K.) مِنْ مَيْدَا ذٰلِكَ has not been heard. (M, L.)

مَيْدَةٌ : see مَايءِدَةٌ .

مِيدَا=ءٌ The amount, and measure, of a thing: (L, K:) and the two sides, and distance, or extent, of a thing, (L,) or of a road; (K;) and the surface of a road. (L.) One says, لَمْ أَدْرِ مَا مِيدَا=ءُ ذٰلِكَ I knew not what was the amount of that, and its measure: or, what was the measure of its two sides, and its extent: as also مِيتَاوءُهُ . (L.) ― -b2- The extreme limit of the distance to which horses run; and so ميِيءْتا=ءٌ . (S, TA, art. أتى .) -A2- مِيدَا=ءٌ A mode, manner, fashion, or from. Ex. بَنُوْا بُيُوتَهُمْ عَلَى مِيدَا=ءٍ وَاحِدٍ They built their houses, or constructed their tents, after one mode, &c. (L.) [See also مِيءْتَا=ءٌ , in art. اتى .]

هٰذَا مِيدَاوءُهُ , [thus in the copies of the K and in the TA, app. a mistake for مِيدَا=ءَهُ , like تِلْقَا=ءَهُ ,] and بِمِيدَايءِهِ , and بِمِيدَاهُ , This is opposite to, or facing, it. (K.) And دَارِى بِمَيْدَا دَارِهِ , with fet-h to the م ; (as also بِمِيتَا=ءِ داره , L in art. ميت ; and بِمِيءْتَا=ءِ داره , S in art. اتى ;) My house is opposite to his house. (Yaakoob, L.) ― -b2- مِيدَا=ءُ الطَرِيقِ : see مِيءْتَا=ء in art. أَتَى , and مِيتَا=ء in art. ميت .

مَيْدَانٌ (S, L, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ مِيدَانٌ (K) A horse-course; race-ground; hippodrome: (Msb, TA:) pl. مَيَادِينُ : (S, K, &c.:) of the measure فَعْلَانٌ , (IKtt,) from ماد “ it was in a state of motion; ” because the sides of the horsecourse shake on the occasion of a race: (Msb:) or from ماد “ it turned or twisted about, or became contorted and convulsed; ” because the horses wheel about, and bend or convulse themselves, in the place so called: or of the measure فَلْعَانٌ , from مَدًى “ a limit, or goal; ” because horses run to their goals in the place so called; originally مَدْيَانٌ , the second and third radicals being transposed; as in بِيزَانٌ , originally بُزْيَانٌ : or of the measure فَيْعَالٌ , from مَدَنَ “ he abode, or dwelt; ” because horses confine themselves especially to the place so called for wheeling about and the like. (IKtt.) -A2- عَيْشٌ مَيْدَانٌ A delicate, a pleasant, or an ample and easy, life. (S, L.) ― -b2- مَيْدَانُ الخُلَفَا=ءِ (tropical:) a term applied by historians to The period of the reign of Khaleefehs; from twenty to twenty-four years. (MF, TA.)

مِيدَانٌ : see مَيْدَانٌ .

مَيُودٌ That moves about, or is agitated, much; that vacillates much: (L:) an intensive epithet; applied in a trad. to worldly prosperity. (L., art. حيد .)

مَيَّادٌ : see مَايءِدٌ .

مَايءِدٌ (tropical:) A man affected with a heaving of the stomach, or a tendency to vomit, and a giddiness in the head, by reason of intoxication, or of voyaging upon the sea: pl. مَيْدَى . (L.) ― -b2- مَايءِدٌ A branch inclining [from side to side: see 1]: (A, L:) as also ↓ مَيَّادٌ : (L:) [or rather the latter signifies inclining much, or frequently, from side to side:] pl. [of the former] مُيَّدٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- فُلَانٌ يَمْشِى عَلَى الأَرْضِ فَيَّادًا مَيَّادًا (tropical:) Such a one walks upon the ground with an elegant and a proud and a self-conceited gait, with an affected inclining of his body from side to side. (A, Art. فيد .)

مَايءِدَةٌ (and ↓ مَيْدَةٌ , El-Jarmee, L, K) A table with food upon it: (S, L, K:) without food upon it, a table is not thus called, but is called خِوَانٌ : (AAF, S, L:) or also applied to a table itself: (L:) MF says, that this latter application is allowable, considering that food has been, or is to be, placed upon the table: but El-Hareeree asserts it to be incorrect, and the former application only to be allowable: (TA:) مايءدة is thus used in its proper sense of an act. part. n., and is from ماد “ it was in a state of motion; ” as though the table [which was generally a round piece of leather or the like spread upon the ground] moved about with what was upon it: (Zj, L, Msb: *) or from ماد “ he brought wheat or food; ” because food is brought upon it [or as though it brought food]: (L:) or from ماد “ he gave; ” as though it gave of what was upon it to those around it: (El-'Ináyeh:) or it is of the form of an act. part. n. and used in the sense of a pass. part. n., from ماد “ he gave, ” (AO, S, L, Msb,) like رَاضِيَةٌ in the phrase عِيشَةٌ رَاضِيَةٌ ; (AO, S, L;) because what is thus called is given by its owner to the people [who are to eat]: (Msb:) also, food itself; (Akh, AHát, ISd, L, K;) even if without a table: (L:) [pl. مَوَايءِدُ ]. See also فَاثُورٌ . ― -b2- مَايءِدَةٌ : (tropical:) A round piece of land or ground: (L, K:) likened to a table. (TA.)

مَوَايءِدُ : see مَايءِدَةٌ . ― -b2- Also, Calamities: formed by transposition from مَا=وِدُ . (T, L.)

مُمْتَادٌ Asking, or desiring, to give; asking or desiring, a gift. (K.) And Asked, or desired, to give; one of whom a gift is asked, or desired. (S, L, K.) ― -b2- مُمْتَادٌ A man [asking, or desiring, and ― -b3- ] asked, or desired, to bring wheat or food. (S, L.)