כד

Aramaic

Contraction of כְּדִי (kəḏī), from כְּ־ (kə-, “like/as”) + דִּי (dī, “that”), equivalent to כְּ־ (kə-, “like/as”) + דְּ־ (də-, “that”).

כַּד • (kaḏ)

when, as
- c. 1001, Targum Onkelos, B'reishit 6:1:
  וַהֲוָה כַּד שְׁרִיאוּ בְנֵי אֱנָשָׁא לְמִסְגֵּי עַל אַפֵּי אַרְעָא וּבְנָתָא אִתְיְלִידוּ לְהוֹן:
  wahăwā kaḏ šərīʾū ḇənē ĕnāšā ləmisəggē ʿal ʾappē ʾarəʿā uḇənāṯā ʾiṯəyəlīḏū ləhōn.
  It came to be when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, that daughters were born to them.

“kd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
Jastrow, Marcus (1903), “כַּד”, in A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature‎^[1], London, New York: Luzac & Co., G.P. Putnam's Sons

Root
כ־ד־ד (k-d-d)
1 term

Probably Sanskrit कन्दु (kandu, “pot”) and ultimately Proto-South Dravidian *kiṇṭV- (“pot”). Compare Ugaritic 𐎋𐎄 (kd), Aramaic 𐡊𐡃 (kd), Punic 𐤊𐤃 (kd), Ancient Greek κάδος (kádos).

כַּד • (kad) m (plural indefinite כַּדִּים, plural construct כַּדֵּי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

jar, pitcher, pot
- 1956, Aharon Ashman, A Small Pot:
  כַּד קָטָן, כַּד קָטָן, \ שְׁמוֹנָה יָמִים שַׁמְנוֹ נָתַן. \ כָּל הָעָם הִתְפַּלֵּא, \ מֵאֵלָיו הוּא מִתְמַלֵּא.
  A small pot, a small pot, / eight days it gave its oil. / The whole nation wondered, / it fills up by itself
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