Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ابعد

Root: بعد

Form: 4

Full Definition

ابعدIV , Verbal.Noun إِبْعَادٌ: see 1, in seven places.

def.2 ابعدهُ; and باعدهُ , Verbal.Noun مُبَاعَدَةٌ and بِعَادٌ; and بعّدهُ , Verbal.Noun تَبْعِيدٌ; and بَعُدَ بِهِ; He made, or caused, him, or it, to be, or become, distant, remote, far off, or aloof; or to go, remove, retire, or withdraw himself, to a distance, far away, or far off; he placed, or put, at a distance, or he put, or sent, away, or far away, or far off, or he removed far away, alienated, or estranged, him, or it. You say, نَفْسَكَ عَنْ زَيْدٍ [Remove thyself far from; or avoid thou, Zeyd]: and زَيْدًا عَنْكَ [Remove thou Zeyd far from thee]. (TA, voce إِيَّا.) And بَيْنَهُمَا, Verbal.Noun تَبْعِيدٌ, [I made a wide separation between them two]; as also , Verbal.Noun مُبَاعَدَةٌ. And ٱللّٰهُ مَا بَيْنَهُمَا [May God make the space between them two far extending! may He make a wide separation between them two!]; as also بَعَّدَ . And رَبَّنَا بَيْنَ أَسْفَارِنَا, or , [O our Lord, make to be far-extending the spaces between our journeys! or, put wide distances between our journeys!] accord. to different readings [in the Kur xxxiv. 18]: the former of these is the common reading: Yaakoob El-Hadramee read رَبُّنَا الخ [Our Lord, He hath made to be far extending &c.].
2 أَبْعَدَهُ ٱللّٰهُ means May God alienate him, or estrange him, from good, or prosperity! or, curse him! i. e., may he not be pitied with respect to that which has befallen him! [You say also, أَبْعَدَ ٱللّٰهُ الأَخِرَ: see أَخِرٌ.]
3 See also 10.

def.3 مَا أَبْعَدَهُ مِنَ الصَّوَابِ [How far is it from what is right, or correct!].


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