فَدَّادٌ
Root: فد
Full Definition
2 Having a vehement tread. Hence, in a trad., قَدْ كُنْتَ تَمْشِى فَوْقِى فَدَّادًا i. e. [Thou usedst to walk upon me] treading vehemently, as said by the earth, to a dead man buried in it.
3 Proud, and exulting.
4 And Possessing camels in number from two hundred to a thousand, and therewithal rude, coarse, or uncivil, and proud.
5 Pl. فَدَّادُونَ.
6 The pl. occurs in a trad., in the saying, إِنَّ الجَفَاءَ وَالقَسْوَةَ فِى الفَدَّادِينَ, meaning [Verily rudeness, or coarseness, and hardness, are in] the men whose voices are high, or loud, in their corn-fields and among their cattle: or the tenders of camels, and pastors, and tenders of oxen and of asses: or the tillers of the ground; because they vociferate in their corn-fields: or the people of the deserts; the men who dwell in the فَدَافِد [pl. of فَدْفَدٌ, q. v.]; because of the roughness of their voices, and their rudeness, or coarseness: or the possessors of many camels. [See also art. فدن.]
7 signifies The frog: so called because of its croaking.
8 Also, فَدَّادَةٌ , and فُدَادَةٌ , or , A cowardly man.
9 Also, فَدَّادَةٌ , or فُدَادَةٌ , A certain bird: n. un. of فَدَّادً, or .
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