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هبد

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

1 هَبَدَ الهَبِيدَ ذ , aor. هَبِدَ , (L, K,) inf. n. هَبْدٌ, (L,) He broke هَبِيد, (Lth, L, K,) i. e. colocynths: (Lth, L:) or (in the K, and) he cooked هَبِيد [i. e., colocynths or their seeds ]: (L, K:) or (in the K, and) he gathered هَبِيد [i. e. colocynths ]; (L, K;) as also ↓ تهبّدهُ and ↓ اهتبدهُ; (K;) or ↓ تهبّد and ↓ اهتبد; which are said of an ostrich and of a man: and these two verbs signify he (an ostrich or a man) extracted هَبِيد [or colocynth-seeds ] to eat: (L:) you say of an ostrich ↓ هُوَ يَتَهَبَّدُ he extracts the seeds of the colocynth to eat them: and ↓ تهبّد signifies he took a colocynth, or colocynths, and broke it, or them: (S, L:) or he (an ostrich) broke a colocynth, or colocynths, and ate its, or their seeds: (A:) and he gathered colocynths and macerated them in water: (L:) and ↓ اهتبد he [an ostrich) pierced colocynths with his beak, and ate their seeds: (T, L:) and he took the seeds of dry colocynths, and put them in a place, and poured upon them water, and rubbed and pressed them with the hand, then poured off from them the water, and did this for some days, until their bitterness was gone; after which they are bruised, or brayed, and cooked: (S, L:) or he prepared for food (عَالَخَ) the pulp of colocynths. (AHeyth, L. [See an ex. in a verse cited voce راجلة.]) ― -b2- Also هَبَدَهُ, (aor. as above, L,) He fed him (namely a man, K) with هَبِيد. (L, K.)

Derived headwords

هَبَدَ الهَبِيدَverb
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