آبِدَةٌ

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آبِدَةٌ fem. of آبِدٌ, q. v.
2 Also, [as a subst.,] A deed, or a calamity, ever to be remembered, or mentioned, by reason of its extraordinary nature, and its grievousness: or a great, or formidable, event, at which people take fright, or are alarmed: or a strange, abominable, or evil, thing: pl. أَوَابِدُ. You say, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ بِآبِدَةٍ Such a one did, or brought to pass, [a deed or] calamity ever to be remembered, or mentioned. See also 2.
3 A strange, an unusual, or an unfamiliar, word or saying; one far from being intelligible; pl. أَوَابِدُ, signifying expressions of subtile meanings; so called because remote from perspicuity.
4 The pl. also signifies Strange, unusual, unfamiliar, or extraordinary, rhymes, or verses, or poems; syn. شَوَارِدُ مِنَ القَوَافِى, or قَوَافٍ شُرَّدٌ. El-Farezdak says, لَنْ تُدْرِكُوا كَرَمِى بِلُؤْمِ أَبِيكُمُ وَ أَوَابِدِى بِتَنَحُّلِ الأَشْعَارِ [Ye will not attain to my nobility with the ignobleness of your father, nor to my extraordinary verses by arrogating to yourselves the verses of other men]. [See أَبَدَ.]

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