Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ازبد

Root: زبد

Form: 4

Full Definition

ازبدIV , Verbal.Noun إِزْبَادٌ, said of wine, or beverage, or of the sea, &c., or of the sea when in a state of commotion, and of a cookingpot, and of the mouth of a braying camel, [&c., see زَبَدٌ,] It frothed, or foamed, or cast forth froth or foam: and [in like manner] زبّد , Verbal.Noun تَزْبِيدٌ, said of milk, it [frothed, or foamed; or] had froth, or foam, upon it.
2 [Hence,] said of the سِدْر [or lote-tree], It blossomed; i. e. it put forth a white produce like the froth, or foam, upon water. And, said of the قَتَادِ [or tragacantha], It put forth its leaf (خُوصَة), and its wood, or branch, became strong, or hard, and its rind, or outer covering, coalesced, and it blossomed; as also زبّد .
3 Also It became intensely white.


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