أَبَدٌّ
Root: بد
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أَبَدٌّ
A man wide between the thighs, by reason of abundance of flesh: or wide between the arms; having the arms far from the sides: or wide between the shoulder-joints: or large in make, having one part far from another: and wide in the breast: fem. بَدَّآءُ: which also signifies a woman large in the
إِسْكَتَانِ [or labia majora of the vulva], having their edges far apart: or having much flesh in the thighs. الأَبَدٌّ is used to signify The weaver, because of the distance between his thighs. The following saying, quoted by J, from the rájiz Aboo-Nukheyleh Es-Saadee,
2 Also A horse [or any quadruped (see بَدَّ)] having the fore legs far apart: or having the fore legs far from the sides: or wide between the legs: and a camel having the elbows far from the sides: and the fem. بَدَّآءُ, a cow having her fore legs far apart. [Hence,] الأَبَدُّ الزَّنِيمُ [in the CK الرَّثِيمُ] The lion; the former epithet being applied to him because his fore legs are far apart, and the latter because he is [often] alone.
3 كَتِفٌ بَدَّآءُ A broad shoulder-blade, the sides of which are distant, one from another.
is incorrect, and should be thus,أَلَدُّ يَمْشِى مِشَيَةَ الأَبَدِّ
[A woman of large make, walking in the manner of the man of large make; or a woman wide between the thighs, &c.]; for it is descriptive of a woman, as IB and Aboo-Sahl El-Harawee have observed before the author of the K.بَدَّآءُ تَمْشِى مِشْيَةَ الأَبَدِّ
2 Also A horse [or any quadruped (see بَدَّ)] having the fore legs far apart: or having the fore legs far from the sides: or wide between the legs: and a camel having the elbows far from the sides: and the fem. بَدَّآءُ, a cow having her fore legs far apart. [Hence,] الأَبَدُّ الزَّنِيمُ [in the CK الرَّثِيمُ] The lion; the former epithet being applied to him because his fore legs are far apart, and the latter because he is [often] alone.
3 كَتِفٌ بَدَّآءُ A broad shoulder-blade, the sides of which are distant, one from another.
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