بدو

بَادِيَةٌ بادي باديه بادية (T, S, &c.) A desert; so called because of its being open, or uncovered; (TA;) contr. of حَضَرٌ; (M, K;) as also ↓ بَدْوٌ, (S, * M, Msb, K,) and ↓ بَادَاةٌ, (M, K,) or ↓ بَدَاةٌ, (TA, [thought by SM to be the correct form because found by him in the M, in which I find باداة,]) and ↓ بَدِىٌّ, said to be used as syn. with بَادِيَةٌ in a verse of Lebeed cited among the exs. of the preposition بِ, p. 142, (TA,) and ↓ بدَاوَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ بِدَاوَةٌ; (M;) [of which the last two and the second (namely, بَدْوٌ,) seem to be originally inf. ns.; see 1:] or a land in which are no towns or villages or cultivated soil: (Lth, T:) or the places to which people migrate from the constant sources of water, when they go forth to the desert, seeking the vicinity of herbage; also termed مَبَادٍ, which is syn. with مَنَاجِعُ, contr. of مَحَاضِرُ, and pl. of ↓ مَبْدًى, (T,) this last signifying the contr. of مَحْضَرٌ: (S:) the pl. of بَادِيَةٌ is بَوَادٍ. (T, Msb.) ― -b2- See also بَادٍ.