بُدٌ
Root: بد
Full Definition
بُدٌ
as signifying A separating oneself, or an artifice whereby one may avoid a thing or escape from it, or an avoiding a thing, is not used but in negative phrases, except by post-classical writers. You say, لَا بُدَّ مِنْ كَذَا There is no separating oneself from such a thing: or there is no artifice whereby one may avoid it, or escape from it: or there is no avoiding it: it is absolutely necessary: it is not possible to separate oneself from it, nor is there anything that can serve in its stead. And مَا لَكَ مِنْهُ بُدٌّ [Thou hast not any means, or way, of separating thyself from it, or avoiding it]. And لَيْسَ لِهٰذَا الأَمْرِ
بُدٌّ
There is no artifice for this affair. [It is also said, with reference to the first of these phrases, that] بُدٌّ signifies Amplitude; from أَبَدُّ meaning “ wide between the legs. ”
def.2 Also, and بِدٌّ and بِدَادٌ and بُدَادٌ , or , and بُدَّةٌ , or بِدَّةٌ , but J has been charged with error in writing it thus, by Sgh, A lot, share, portion, or set portion; of anything: [or] the last signifies a piece, or portion, separated, disunited, or dispersed: the pl. of بِدَادٌ is بُدُدٌ; and of بُدَدٌ بُدَّةٌ; and of بِدَدٌ بِدَّةٌ.
2 Also the first, A substitute; a thing given, or received, or put, or done, instead of, in the place of, or in exchange for, another thing; a compensation; syn. عِوَضٌ: it is said to have this signification. [In the copies of the K, البَعُوضُ is put in the place of العِوَضُ: but this is said in the TA to be a mistake.]
def.3 بُدٌّ is also an arabicized word, from بُتْ, (T, S, M, K, [in a copy of the M, بُتّ,]) which is Persian; meaning An idol; pl. بَدَدَةٌ and أَبْدَادٌ: and the house of an idol: or a house in which are idols and images or pictures.
def.2 Also, and بِدٌّ and بِدَادٌ and بُدَادٌ , or , and بُدَّةٌ , or بِدَّةٌ , but J has been charged with error in writing it thus, by Sgh, A lot, share, portion, or set portion; of anything: [or] the last signifies a piece, or portion, separated, disunited, or dispersed: the pl. of بِدَادٌ is بُدُدٌ; and of بُدَدٌ بُدَّةٌ; and of بِدَدٌ بِدَّةٌ.
2 Also the first, A substitute; a thing given, or received, or put, or done, instead of, in the place of, or in exchange for, another thing; a compensation; syn. عِوَضٌ: it is said to have this signification. [In the copies of the K, البَعُوضُ is put in the place of العِوَضُ: but this is said in the TA to be a mistake.]
def.3 بُدٌّ is also an arabicized word, from بُتْ, (T, S, M, K, [in a copy of the M, بُتّ,]) which is Persian; meaning An idol; pl. بَدَدَةٌ and أَبْدَادٌ: and the house of an idol: or a house in which are idols and images or pictures.
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