بُرْدٌ

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بُرْدٌ A kind of garment; a kind of striped garment: accord. to some, of the description termed وَشْىٌ [or variegated]: or particular kinds thereof are distinguished by such terms as بُرْدُ عَصْبٍ and بُرْدُ وَ شْىٍ: also, garments of the kind called أَكْسِيَةٌ, [pl. of كِسَآءٌ,] which are wrapped round the body; one of which is called بُرْدَةٌ : or, as Lth says, the بُرْد is [a] well-known [garment], of the kind called بُرُودُ العَصْبِ and بُرُودُ الوَشْىِ; but the بُرْدَةٌ is a garment of the kind called كِسَآءٌ, four-sided, black, and somewhat small, worn by the Arabs of the desert: or this latter (the بردة) is a striped garment of the kind called شَمْلَةٌ: or it is an oblong piece of woollen cloth, fringed: Sh says, I saw an Arab of the desert wearing a piece of woollen cloth resembling a napkin, wrapped round the body like an apron; and on my saying to him, What dost thou call it? he answered, بُرْدَة: [the modern بردة, in every case in which I have seen it, I have observed to be an oblong piece of thick woollen cloth, generally brown or of a dark or ashy dust-colour, and either plain, or having stripes so narrow and near together as to appear, at a little distance, of one colour; used both to envelop the person by day and as a night-covering: the بردة of Mohammad is described as about seven feet and a half in length, and four and a half in width, and in colour either أَخْضَر or أَحْمَر, i. e. of a dark or ashy dust-colour or brown; for such are the significations of these two epithets when applied to a garment of this kind, and in some other cases:] the pl. of بُرْدٌ is أَبْرُدٌ and أَبْرَادٌ [both pls. of pauc.] and بُرُودٌ and بُرَدٌ, or this last is pl. of بُرْدَةٌ, and بِرَادٌ, like as قِرَاطٌ is pl. of قُرْطٌ, or this, also, is pl. of بُرْدَةٌ, like as بِرَامٌ is pl. of بُرْمَةٌ.
2 ذُوبُرْدٍ, as opposed to ذُو كِسَآءِ, means A rich man. (S in art. عج.)
3 وَقَعَ بَيْنُهُمَا قَدُّ بُرُودٍ يُمْنَةٍ, (so in copies of the K, in the TA يُمَنَةٍ,) or بُرُودٍ ثَمِينَةٍ, [There happened between them two the rending of بُرُود of the fabric of El-Yemen, accord. to the reading in the K, or of costly بُرُود, accord. to the reading in the A,] means they arrived at a great, or severe, state of affairs; or is said of two men who have contended together in vehement altercation so that they have rent each other's garments; [accord. to the reading in the K,] because يُمَنٌ, [in the CK يُمْن,] which are بُرُود of El-Yemen, are not rent save on account of some great, or severe, thing, or affair.
4 هُمَا فِى أَخْمَاسٍ means They two do one deed; or act alike; and resemble each other, as though they were in one بُرْدَة: or they two have become near together, and in a state of agreement. (K in art. خمس, q. v.)
5 And سَلَبَ الصَّهْبَآءَ He, or it, deprived the wine of its colour.
6 And بُرْدَا الجَرَادِ, or الجُنْدَبِ, The two wings [of the locust, or of the species called جندب].
7 And ↓بُرْدَةُ الضَّأْنِ A certain sort of milk.

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