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أَرْبَدُ

Root: ربد

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أَرْبَدُ , and its fem. رَبْدَآءُ, applied to an ostrich, Of the colour termed رُبْدَةٌ; and so the former applied to dates (تَمْرٌ): accord. to Lh, the latter, applied to an ostrich, as also رَمْدَآءُ, signifies black; entirely: or, as he says in one place, having, in its blackness, specks of white or red: pl. رُبْدٌ. Hence أَرْبَدُ meaning A male ostrich. Also the fem., applied to a ewe or she-goat, to the latter specially, Speckled, and marked in the place of the girdle with red: or speckled with red and white or black: or black, speckled with red and white.
2 Also A man, and a woman, having a dusty hue in the lips.
3 الأَرْبَدُ also signifies A species of serpent, of a foul, malignant, or noxious, nature, that bites so that the face in consequence alters to an ashy hue or the like (يَتَرَبَّدُ), or that bites camels.
4 And The lion; as also المُتَرَبِّدُ .
5 [Hence also,] دَاهِيَةٌ رَبْدَآءُ An abominable calamity. And أُمُورٌ رُبْدٌ Black calamities.
6 And عَامٌ أَرْبَدُ A year of drought.


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