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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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ʕumdaẗ عُمْدة 
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√ʕMD 
n.f. (or m., if used for men) 
1 support, prop, shore; 2 main subject, main issue, basic issue (e.g., of a controversy); 3a (pl. ʕumad) n.m., chief of a village, chief magistrate of a small community (eg.); 3b mayor – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ [v1] means the support given by a ↗ʕamūd ‘pole, pillar, beam’, hence also fig. use in [v2] as the *‘pillar’ that ‘bears’ a conversation or discussion, and [v3ab] as *‘pillars’ of a community, i.e., reliable, trustworthy persons on whose steadfastness, resolution, strength etc. the structure of the “building” (of a village or city community) rests. 
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See ↗ʕamūd. 
See above, section CONC. 
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►muʕtamadiyyaẗ, n.f., 1 legation (dipl.); 2 (Tun.) administrative district (subdivision of a wilāyaẗ, province); district government: PP VIII, f., from ĭʕtamada ‘to relie upon, trust in’, lit., ‘to turn to s.o.\s.th. as one’s ʕamūd (pillar) or ʕumdaẗ (chief, mayor), Gt-stem, self-referential.

For other meanings of the root, cf. ↗ʕamada, ↗ʕammada, ↗ʕamūd, ↗ ʕamīd, as well as, for the overall picture, ↗√ʕMD. 
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