لبد

لَبِدَ

To stick, adhere, or lie pressed against a surface.

Used with بِـ for attachment to the ground or another surface; of a bird, to lie on its breast close to the ground.

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لَبِدَ، مُلْبِدٌ

To keep close to the ground and conceal oneself; to lie low.

Used of concealment or hunting, and also of a person keeping close to the ground because of poverty.

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لَبِدَ

To remain, stay, dwell, or cling to a place.

Describes continuing in one location or remaining fixed there, including remaining while leaning on a staff.

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لَبِدَ، لَبِدَةٌ

To suffer choking or a belly complaint after eating certain plants; a camel so affected.

A specialized description of camels affected by eating much of specified fodder.

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لَبَّدَ

To mat, compact, or make parts adhere so that they become a coherent felt-like mass.

Used of wool or hair, and of rain compacting the ground so that feet do not sink.

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لَبَّدَ الشَّعَرَ

To shave all the hair.

A reported alternative interpretation of the hair-related construction, distinct from the ordinary sense of compacting the hair.

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أَلْبَدَ

To attach one thing firmly to another or make it adhere to a surface.

Includes making a compact crust of excrement adhere to an animal's hindquarters and attaching a vessel closely to an udder.

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أَلْبَدَ البَصَرَ

To keep the gaze fixed on a place.

A conventional use for a person's eye or sight remaining fixed on the place of prostration.

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أَلْبَدَ

To lower or stoop the head.

Used of stooping when entering through a door.

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أَلْبَدَ

To fit or provide a saddle, boot, or horse with a felt covering.

Used for making a felt saddlecloth or binding such a covering onto a horse; the same construction can apply to boots.

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أَلْبَدَتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels, to become full-fleshed and abundant in hair, taking on a goodly appearance.

A figurative use likening the camels' increased fullness or covering to felt coverings.

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أَلْبَدَ القِرْبَةَ

To put a water-skin into a small sack or felt casing.

Describes placing the water-skin in a جوالق or لبيد, the latter being a felt covering sewn onto it.

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تَلَبَّدَ

To become matted, commingled, compacted, or coherent.

Used of wool, hair, dung, mixtures of dung and urine, leaves, and ground, dust, or sand becoming firm or compact.

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تَلَبَّدَ

To shrink or hide oneself from fear or for concealment.

A reported and later usage for contracting oneself or hiding, sometimes in order to practice guile.

• Lane · entry 9319

اِلْتَبَدَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ

Of a tree, to become dense or abundant in foliage.

Describes foliage becoming thick and plentiful.

• Lane · entry 9320

لِبْدٌ

Matted or compacted hair or wool; felt or a piece of felt.

The term may denote the material generally or a portion formed into a coherent mass.

• Lane · entry 9321

لِبْدٌ

A felt carpet, cloth, or saddlecloth placed beneath a saddle or used as a covering.

Includes the felt layer beneath a saddle and comparable felt coverings.

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لَبَدٌ

Wool.

Also occurs in the conventional pairing سَبَدٌ وَلَبَدٌ, contrasting hair and wool.

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مَا لَهُ سَبَدٌ وَلَا لَبَدٌ

To have nothing, or neither little nor much.

An idiom based on the traditional wealth represented by hair-bearing and wool-bearing livestock.

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لَبَدٌ

Compact, coherent ground firm enough to walk or travel over quickly.

Describes ground whose compactness prevents the feet from sinking.

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لَبِدٌ

One who does not depart, travel, or leave his abode; a stay-at-home person.

Can describe a person who remains with his camel's saddle; the name لُبَد was also applied to the last of Luqman's vultures because it was thought not to depart.

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لِبْدَةٌ، لَابِدٌ

The compacted mass of hair between a lion's shoulder blades or on a camel's hump; by extension, a lion or a lion epithet.

The lion-related use arises from the characteristic matted mane-like mass.

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لَبِيدٌ

A sack or bag, especially a small sack or a felt-covered container for a water-skin; also a fodder bag.

The size may vary by usage; the container may be made or lined with felt.

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لَبَّادٌ

A maker or manufacturer of felt.

Derived from لِبْد, felt or compacted hair and wool.

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لُبَّادَةٌ

A felt garment or rain cloak.

A felt outer garment worn for protection from rain.

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مُلْبَدٌ

A horse with a felt saddlecloth or covering bound upon it.

Describes the animal bearing the felt layer used beneath the saddle.

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مُلْبِدٌ

A camel or stallion-camel that strikes its thighs with its tail and makes dung adhere to them.

A specialized description of the animal's tail and the resulting compacted deposit.

• Lane · entry 9335

مُلَبِّدٌ

Scanty rain that compacts soft ground so that feet do not sink.

The term focuses on the rain's ground-firming effect.

• Lane · entry 9336

مُلَبَّدٌ

Made of felt, especially a pair of felt boots.

Used of footwear constructed from لِبْد.

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مَلْبُودٌ

Compact in flesh or well-fleshed, of a he-goat.

A specialized bodily description of a stocky, densely fleshed animal.

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