أَبْعَدُ
Root: بعد
Full Definition
2 More, and most, extreme, excessive, egregious, or extraordinary, in its kind. [Hence, perhaps,] إِنَّهُ لَغَيْرُ أَبْعَدَ [in the CK أَبْعَدٍ] and Verily there is no good in him: or, no depth in him in anything: [or, he is not extraordinary in his kind: see also بُعْدٌ:] said in dispraising one. And مَا عِنْدَهُ أَبْعَدُ and [He has not what is extraordinary in its kind: or] he possesses not excellence, or power, or riches: or he possesses not anything profitable: said only in dispraising one: or it may mean he possesses not anything which one would go far to seek; or, anything of value: or what he possesses, of things or qualities that are desirable, is more extraordinary than what others possess.
3 Remote from good: [which is the meaning generally intended in the present day when it is used absolutely as an epithet applied to a man; but meaning also remote from him or those in whose presence this epithet is used, both as to place and as to moral condition:] and, from continence: and stupid; foolish; or having little, or no, intellect or understanding; syn. حَائِنٌ: or treacherous, or unfaithful; syn. خَائِنٌ It is used as an allusion to the name of a person whom one would mention with dispraise; as when one says, هَلَكَ الأَبْعَدُ [May such a one, the remote from good, &c., perish!]: with respect to a woman, one says, هَلَكَتِ البُعْدَى. One says also, كَبَّ ٱللّٰهُ الأَبْعَدَ لِفِيهِ, meaning [May God cast down prostrate such a one, the remote from good, &c., upon his mouth! or,] cast him down upon his face! [It is a rule observed in decent society, by the Arabs, to avoid, as much as possible, the mention of opprobrious epithets, lest any person present should imagine an epithet of this kind to be slily applied to himself: therefore, when any malediction or vituperation is uttered, it is usual to allude to the object by the term الأَبْعَد, or البَعِيد, as meaning the remote from good, &c., and also the remote from the person or persons present. See also الأَخِرُ, which is used in a similar manner.]
4 A more distant, or most distant, or very distant, relation; contr. of أَقْرَبُ: pl. أَبَاعِدُ and أَبْعَدُونَ; contr. of أَقَارِبُ and أَقْرَبُونَ.
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