Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

بِجَادٌ

Root: بجد

Full Definition

بِجَادٌ A striped garment of the kind called كِسَآء, being one of the kinds of كَسآء worn by the Arabs of the desert: or, of which the wool has been spun, or twisted, in the manner termed يَسْرَةً [app. a mistranscription for يَسْرًا (see فَتْلٌ يَسْرٌ in art. يسر)], and woven with the instrument called صِيصَة: pl. بُجُدٌ: a single oblong piece thereof is called فَلِيجٌ, of which the pl. is فُلُجٌ.
2 Also A kind of tent, of [the soft hair called] وَبَر. (Ibn-ElKelbee, TA voce بَيْتٌ, q. v.)


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