بَدَادِ
Root: بد
Full Definition
2 يَا قَوْمِ بَدَادِ بَدَادِ means O my people, take each one of you his adversary, or opponent [with whom to fight]. Here بداد is indecl., with kesr for its termination, because it is an imperative verbal noun, and the imperative is alike uninfluenced with respect to its termination by any governing word; and it is said to be with kesr because two quiescent letters would otherwise occur together, [and] because it occupies the place of an imperative verb [which in like manner is terminated with kesr when it is necessary to prevent the occurrence of two quiescent letters together].
3 With the article, you say, البَدَادُ, which signifies The going forth to encounter another in fight, or to single combat; as in the saying, لَوْ كَانَ البَدَادُ لَمَا أَطَاقُونَا Had we gone forth to encounter them in fight, man to man, [they had not been able to cope with us;] or man by man. You say also, لَقُوا بَدَادَهُمْ, explained above: see 6.
def.2 See also بُدٌّ.
def.3 And see 3.
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