زبد

زَبَدَ

To feed someone fresh butter, or give him butter to eat.

Transitive use with the person fed as object.

• Lane · entry 30759

زَبَدَ

To give someone a gift or give him some property.

An extended use that may refer to giving a small amount or portion of one's property.

• Lane · entry 30759

زَبَدَ

To strike someone a blow or cast a missile at him hastily or quickly.

The object may be a blow or a shot or thrown missile; the haste is part of the reported construction.

• Lane · entry 30759

زَبَدَ

To agitate a milk-skin so that its butter comes out.

Used of churning or agitating the skin until the butter is produced.

• Lane · entry 30759

زَبَدَ

To add fresh butter to parched-barley meal; an alternative interpretation takes the construction as swallowing the meal like butter.

The second interpretation is explicitly reported as a disputed reading of the construction.

• Lane · entry 30759

زَبَّدَ

To have froth or foam appear at the corners of the mouth.

Applied to a person, the construction describes foam appearing at the mouth in anger.

• Lane · entry 30760

زَبَّدَ

To separate or loosen cotton and prepare it for spinning.

The operation may be done by hand or with a bow and wooden mallet.

• Lane · entry 30760

يُزَابِدُ

To speak in the same manner as another person.

A relational construction comparing the speech of two people.

• Lane · entry 30761

أَزْبَدَ

To froth or foam, or cast forth foam, of a beverage, the sea, a cooking pot, a camel's mouth, or milk.

This is a Form IV intransitive or causative-state use describing the appearance or emission of foam.

• Lane · entry 30762

أَزْبَدَ

Of a lote tree, to blossom and put forth a white product like foam; of a tragacanth plant, to put forth its growth and blossom.

A figurative extension from the white, foam-like appearance of the produce.

• Lane · entry 30762

أَزْبَدَ

To become intensely white.

An extended descriptive use based on the whiteness associated with foam.

• Lane · entry 30762

تَزَبَّدَ

To swallow something as one swallows a piece of fresh butter.

An extended Form V use describing quick or easy swallowing.

• Lane · entry 30763

تَزَبَّدَ

To take the clear, pure, or choice part of something.

Used of selecting or taking what is considered the best portion.

• Lane · entry 30763

تَزَبَّدَ

To take an oath hastily.

A conventional expression for being hasty in taking an oath.

• Lane · entry 30763

زَبْدٌ

A gift.

An extended nominal use, especially in expressions concerning the acceptance or refusal of a gift.

• Lane · entry 30764

زُبْدٌ

Fresh butter produced by churning milk; also a piece or portion of such butter.

The cited lexical distinction uses the term chiefly for butter from cow, buffalo, sheep, or goat milk and gives another term for the product of camel milk; it also includes butter before clarification over the fire.

• Lane · entry 30765

زُبْدُ اللَّبَنِ

The froth of milk.

This reading is explicitly presented as possibly arising from a textual error, so it remains a qualified Classical attestation.

• Lane · entry 30765

زُبْدٌ

Metonymically, the choice or best portions—the cream—of discourse, a story, or similar material.

A figurative plural-based use referring to what is considered the finest part.

• Lane · entry 30765

زُبْدٌ

An issue or event, especially one regarded as relishable or pleasing.

A reported extended use applied to an especially agreeable event.

• Lane · entry 30765

زَبَدٌ

In broader Classical applications, foam, froth, spume, or scum on the sea, in a cooking pot, at a camel's mouth, on cud or spittle, or on silver.

These applications extend the foam sense beyond the Quranic occurrence concerning water.

• Lane · entry 30766

زُبْدِيٌّ

Pertaining to fresh butter; buttery.

A relational adjective formed from زُبْدٌ.

• Lane · entry 30769

زَبَادٌ

Civet, as a well-known perfume.

The term denotes the perfumed substance associated with the civet animal.

• Lane · entry 30770

زَبَادٌ

The civet or wild cat from which the perfume is obtained.

The animal application is reported as a figurative or metonymic use alongside the primary perfume meaning.

• Lane · entry 30770

زُبَادٌ

Fresh butter that has spoiled during churning; according to another report, thin milk.

The thin-milk interpretation is an explicitly attributed alternative.

• Lane · entry 30771

زُبَّادُ اللَّبَنِ

The watery part of milk, the portion in which there is no good.

The term contrasts the thin, less valuable part of milk with its thicker or better portion.

• Lane · entry 30773

زُبَّادٌ

Figuratively, a mixture of good and bad, or of truth and falsehood.

A proverbial use based on the mixing of the thick and watery parts of milk.

• Lane · entry 30773

زُبَّادٌ

A plant of the plains with broad leaves, edible and considered good or pleasant.

This is a separate plant name, with descriptions of its leaves, branches, and growth habit.

• Lane · entry 30773

زَابِدٌ

Possessing or being a possessor of fresh butter.

An active participial description derived from the butter sense.

• Lane · entry 30775

مُزْبِدٌ

Frothing or foaming; especially said of a tumultuous, foaming sea.

A passive-participial adjective describing something producing or bearing foam.

• Lane · entry 30776

مُزْبِدٌ

Intensely white.

An extended adjectival use based on the whiteness of foam.

• Lane · entry 30776