بَارِدٌ

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بَارِدٌ Cold; chill; cool; applied to water [&c.]; as also بَرْدٌ , [originally an Verbal.Noun, like عَدْلٌ, used as an epithet,] and بَرُودٌ , and بُرَادٌ ; but the last two are intensive forms [signifying very cold or chill or cool].
2 Anything loved, beloved, liked, or approved. [Hence,] عَيْشٌ بَاردٌ An easy and a pleasant life, or state of life. And لَيْلَةٌ بَارِدَةٌ العَيْشِ, and العَيْشِ, [the latter written in the TT بَرَدَةُ العيش,] A night of easy and pleasant life. And غَنيمَةٌ بَارِدَةٌ: see the latter word.
3 سَمُومٌ بَارِدٌ A hot wind that is constant, continual, permanent, settled, or incessant.
4 لِى عَلَيْهِ أَلْفٌ بَارِدٌ A thousand [pieces of money &c.] are incumbent, or obligatory, on him, to me, and established against him; or are owed, or due, to me, by, or from, him.
5 جَآءَ فُلَانٌ بَارِدًا مُخُّهُ, and بَارِدَ العِظَامَ, Such a one came in a lean, or an emaciated, state: in the contr. case, one says, حَارَّا مُخُّهُ, and حَارَّ العِظَامِ.
6 [بَارِدٌ also signifies Blunt; applied to a sword and the like: see 1.
7 And, contr., Sharp: for you say,] مُرْهَفَاتٌ بَوَارِدُ [pl. of بَارِدَةٌ, meaning] Sharp, or cutting, swords: or slaying swords.

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