مُعَبَّدٌ
Root: عبد
Full Definition
مُعَبَّدٌ
, applied to a camel, Rendered submissive, or tractable; broken, or trained; syn. مُذَلَّلٌ: or anointed with tar, and rendered submissive, or tractable: or whose whole skin is anointed with tar: or mangy, or scabby, whose fur has fallen off by degrees, and which is set apart from the other camels to be anointed with tar: or rendered submissive by the mange, or scab: or affected with the mange, or scab; or with incurable mange or scab. [And hence, app.,] سَفِينَةٌ مُعَبَّدَةٌ
A ship, or boat, tarred: or smeared with fat, or oil.
2 Applied to a road, Beaten; syn. مُذَلَّلٌ; trodden; or travelled by many passengers going to and fro: and syn. with مُذَلَّلٌ as applied to other things also.
3 And [hence] A wooden pin, peg, or stake. (Az, O, K, TA. [In the CK, المُؤَتَّدُ is erroneously put for الوَتِدُ.]) So in the following verse of Ibn-Mukbil:
4 Also Honoured, or treated with honour, and served; applied to a camel. Thus it has two contr. significations.
5 And A camel left unridden.
6 And, applied to a stallion [camel], Excited by lust, or by vehement lust.
7 Also, applied to a country, or tract of land, In which is no footprint, or track, nor any sign of the way, nor water: you say بَلَدٌ مُعَبَّدٌ.
2 Applied to a road, Beaten; syn. مُذَلَّلٌ; trodden; or travelled by many passengers going to and fro: and syn. with مُذَلَّلٌ as applied to other things also.
3 And [hence] A wooden pin, peg, or stake. (Az, O, K, TA. [In the CK, المُؤَتَّدُ is erroneously put for الوَتِدُ.]) So in the following verse of Ibn-Mukbil:
[And I made a wooden peg to be a guarantee for the ropes of the coursers: when we beat its head, it did not wabble].وَضَمَّنْتُ أَرْسَانَ الجِيَادِ مُعَبَّدًا إِذَا مَا ضَرَبْنَا رَأْسَهُ لَا يُرَنَّحُ
4 Also Honoured, or treated with honour, and served; applied to a camel. Thus it has two contr. significations.
5 And A camel left unridden.
6 And, applied to a stallion [camel], Excited by lust, or by vehement lust.
7 Also, applied to a country, or tract of land, In which is no footprint, or track, nor any sign of the way, nor water: you say بَلَدٌ مُعَبَّدٌ.
Lane's Lexicon
+
Hans Wehr
+
Mufradat
Three dictionaries. One search.
"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."
47,000+ classical entries
Root-based navigation
Full text search
Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now
Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more