بَيْدَآءُ

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بَيْدَآءُ A desert; or a waterless desert: or one that is plain, or level, in which horses are made to run: or one wherein is nothing: so called, accord. to IJ, because it [often] destroys him who alights, or sojourns, in it: or a plain tract, slightly elevated, with few trees, and without herbage, extending to the distance of a day's journey, or half a day's journey, or less, rugged and hard, and only in a country of mould, or clay: pl. بِيْدٌ: it has a pl. of a form proper to epithets because it is originally an epithet: by rule it should be بَيْدَاوَاتٌ.

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