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قدم

Pronunciation: /qa.da.ma/

“قدم” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to precede
  2. to return from a journey
  3. to come to, arrive at, to reach
  4. to step up to (إِلَى (ʔilā) something)
  5. to be old, to be ancient
  6. to introduce (someone to someone else)
  7. to let precede, to make precede, to send ahead, to dispatch
  8. to set forth beforehand, to place at the front, to place at the head
  9. to do earlier, to do beforehand
  10. to give precedence, to prefer
  11. to appoint as guardian
  12. to prepare, to get ready, to make ready
  13. to provide, to set aside, to earmark, to make provision
  14. to offer, to proffer, to tender
  15. to extend
  16. to present, to produce, to exhibit, to display
  17. to hand over, to deliver, to give, to hand over, to grant
  18. to submit, to refer, to lay before, to offer up
  19. to dedicate

noun

  1. foot

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *q-d-m (“to precede, come before”). Compare Hebrew קדם and Classical Syriac ܩܕܡ.

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