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لِبْدٌ

Root: لبد

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لِبْدٌ Hair or wool commingled, and compacted together, or coherent; [felt;] as also لِبْدَةٌ ; or this is a more particular term; [meaning a portion of such hair or wool; a piece of felt;] and لُبْدَةٌ : pl. of لِبْدٌ, (or of لبدة, as though the ة were imagined to be elided, M,) لُبُودٌ and أَلْبَادٌ.
2 لِبْدٌ A well-known kind of carpet [and cloth, made of felt].
3 لِبْدٌ [or لِبْدَةٌ, (S, art. وثر,)] What is beneath the saddle; [a saddle-cloth; a housing; a cloth of felt, which is placed beneath the saddle, and also used as a covering without the saddle].
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