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هَبَدَ

Root: هبد

Form: 1

Full Definition

هَبَدَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun هَبْدٌ, He broke هَبِيد, i. e. colocynths: or he cooked هَبِيد [i. e., colocynths or their seeds]: or he gathered هَبِيد [i. e. colocynths]; as also تهبّدهُ and ; or تهبّد and ; which are said of an ostrich and of a man: and these two verbs signify he extracted هَبِيد [or colocynth-seeds] to eat: you say of an ostrich هُوَ he extracts the seeds of the colocynth to eat them: and تهبّد signifies he took a colocynth, or colocynths, and broke it, or them: or he broke a colocynth, or colocynths, and ate its, or their seeds: and he gathered colocynths and macerated them in water: and he [an ostrich) pierced colocynths with his beak, and ate their seeds: and he took the seeds of dry colocynths, and put them in a place, and poured upon them water, and rubbed and pressed them with the hand, then poured off from them the water, and did this for some days, until their bitterness was gone; after which they are bruised, or brayed, and cooked: or he prepared for food (عَالَخَ) the pulp of colocynths. (AHeyth, L. [See an ex. in a verse cited voce راجلة.])
2 Also هَبَدَهُ, He fed him with هَبِيد.
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