بد
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaأَبَدٌّ ذ A man wide between the thighs, (ISk, S, M, K,) by reason of abundance of flesh: (ISk, S, M:) or wide between the arms; (K;) having the arms far from the sides: (M:) or wide between the shoulder-joints: (M:) or (so in the K; but accord. to the S, “and”) large in make, (T, S, M, K,) having one part far from another: (M, K:) and wide in the breast: (Aboo-Málik, T:) fem. بَدَّاآءُ: (S:) which also signifies a woman (M, L) large in the اـِسْكَتَانِ [or labia majora of the vulva ], (M, L, K,) having their edges far apart: (M, L:) or having much flesh in the thighs. (T, L.) الأَبَدٌّ is used to signify The weaver, (T, M, K,) because of the distance between his thighs. (M.) The following saying, (K,) quoted by J, from the rájiz Aboo-Nukheyleh Es-Saadee, أَلَدُّ يَمْشِى مِشَيَةَ الأَبَدِّ is incorrect, and should be thus, بَدَّاآءُ تَمْشِى مِشْيَةَ الأَبَدِّ [ A woman of large make, walking in the manner of the man of large make; or a woman wide between the thighs, &c.]; (K;) for it is descriptive of a woman, as IB and Aboo-Sahl El-Harawee have observed before the author of the K. (TA.) ― -b2- Also A horse [or any quadruped (see بَدَّ)] having the fore legs far apart: (M, K:) or having the fore legs far from the sides: (TA:) or wide between the legs: (Ham p. 348:) and a camel having the elbows far from the sides: (TA:) and the fem. بَدَّاآءُ, a cow having her fore legs far apart. (S.) [Hence,] الأَبَدُّ الزَّنِيمُ [in the CK الرَّثِيمُ] The lion; (M, K;) the former epithet being applied to him because his fore legs are far apart, and the latter because he is [often] alone. (M.) ― -b3- كَتِفٌ بَدَّاآءُ A broad shoulder-blade, the sides of which are distant, one from another. (M, L.)
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