بدع

بِدْعٌ بدع بدعة i. q. ↓ بَدِيعٌ, q. v., and ↓ مُبْتَدَعٌ; (S;) [but generally used as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant; signifying] A novelty; or thing existing for the first time: (K:) and i. q. ↓ بَدِيعٌ and ↓ مُبْتَدِعٌ, a first doer; as though meaning one who has none among his fellows to share, or participate, with him in a thing, or an affair: (Msb:) pl. أَبْدَاعٌ. (Akh, S.) You say, فُلَانٌ بِدْعٌ فِى هٰذا الأَمْرِ, (S, Msb,) i. e. ↓ بَدِيعٌ, (S,) meaning Such a one is the first doer in this affair; the first who has done it. (Msb.) And hence the saying in the Kur [xlvi. 8], قُلْ مَا كُنْتُ بِدْعًا مِنَ الرُّسُلِ (S, Msb, TA) Say thou, I am not the first who has been sent of the apostles: (Msb, TA:) or the meaning is, I am not an innovator among the apostles; inviting you to that to which they do not invite you; or able to do that which they were not able to do: and accord. to one reading, it is ↓ بِدَعًا; as being [a sing. epithet] like قِيَمٌ; or for ذَا بِدَعٍ [in which the latter word is pl. of بِدْعَةٌ]. (Bd.) ― -b2- Applied to a man, (TA,) Superlative (Ks, K) in his kind (Ks) in anything; (K;) in good and in evil; (Ks;) or in knowledge, or courage, or nobility: (K:) fem. with ة: pl. of the mase. أَبْدَاعٌ [a pl. of pauc., which is also, as is said in the L, applied to women,] and بُدُعٌ [a pl. of mult.]; and pl. of the fem. بِدَعٌ. (K.) ↓ A man liberal in disposition; syn. غَمْرٌ. (IAar, K.) ― -b3- A full body. (K.)