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لَبِدَ

Root: لبد

Form: 1

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لَبِدَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun لَبَدٌ, It stuck, clave, or adhered.
2 لَبَدَ بِالأَرْضِ, aor, ـُ Verbal.Noun لُبُودٌ; and بِهَا; and تلبّد بِهَا; It stuck, clave, or adhered, to the ground.
3 تلبّد بِالأَرْضِ He lay upon his breast, cleaving to the ground.
4 He clave to the ground, concealing his person.
5 Hence the proverb تَصَيَّدِى, [for تَتَصَيَّدِى, Cleave thou to the ground: thou wilt take, or catch, or snare, or entrap, game].
6 Hence also, تلبّد He remained fixed, or steady, and looked, or considered.
7 لَبَدَ بِالمَكَانِ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun لُبُودٌ; and لَبِدَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun لَبَدٌ; and ; He remained, continued, stayed, abode, or dwelt, in the place; and clave to it.
8 لَبَدَ عَلَى عَصَاهُ, Verbal.Noun لُبُودٌ, He leaned upon his staff, remaining fixed to his place.
9 لَبِدَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun لَبَدٌ, He became choked by eating much of the plant called صِلِّيَان, suffering a contortion in the [part of the chest called] حَيْزُوم and in the [part of the throat called] غَلْصَمَة: or had a complaint of the belly from eating of the قَتَاد [or tragacantha].
10 See 4.
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