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لِبْدَةٌ

Root: لبد

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لِبْدَةٌ The mass of hair between the shoulderblades of the lion, intermingled, and compacted together: and the like upon a camel's hump: pl. لِبَدٌ. Hence the proverb, هُوَ أَمْنَعُ مِنْ لِبْدَةِ الأَسَدِ [He, or it, is more unapproachable, or inaccessible, than the mass of hair between the shoulder-blades of the lion]. Hence also ذُو لِبْدَةٍ is an appel-lation of the lion; and so ذُو لِبَدٍ.
2 See لِبْدٌ and لُبَدٌ.
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