daud

/ (dɔːd, dɒd) /

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noun

Scot a lump or chunk of something

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Word Origin for daud

C18: from earlier dad to strike, of unknown origin

Words nearby daud

dau., daub, daube, daubery, Daubigny, daud, Daudet, dauerschlaf, Daugava, Daugavpils, daughter

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How to use daud in a sentence

Ali Salameh and Abu Daud also arrived at the Olympic Village to observe the attack from outside the fence.
Mossad’s Greatest Female Assassin: An Excerpt From ‘Sylvia Rafael’|Ram Oren,   Moti Kfir|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The chances that portraits of Daud and Saleh al-Kuwaiti will ever adorn a 200-shekel bill seem slim.
For My Money, I'll Take the Al-Kuwaitis|Gershom Gorenberg|May 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Ibn Daud does not make use of creation to prove the existence of God, but neither does he posit eternal motion as Aristotle does.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik
And Maimonides does nothing more than repeat the effort of Ibn Daud in a more brilliant and masterly fashion.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik

The above digression will make clear to us the position of Ibn Daud and his relation to Maimonides.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik
Accordingly Ibn Daud follows his physical doctrines with a discussion of the soul.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik
By the theory of exclusion Ibn Daud decides that the soul is substance in the sense in which we apply that term to "form."
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy|Isaac Husik