لبد

لُبَدٌ ذ (S, L) and لِبَدٌ, which is pl. of ↓ لِبْدَةٌ, (L,) and ↓ لُبَّدَى, (L, K,) and ↓ لِبْدَةٌ, and ↓ لُبْدَةٌ, (L,) (tropical:) A number of men collected together, (S, L, K,) and [ as it were ] compacted, one upon another: so the first and second of these words, accord. to different readings, signify in the Kur., lxxii., 19: (L:) or لِبَدٌ signifies collected together like locusts, (T, L,) which are app. thus called as being likened to a congregation of men; (ISd, L;) pl. of لِبْدَةٌ, (L,) which signifies a locust. (K.) [See a verse cited voce صَابَ.] ― -b2- مَالٌ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, K, &c.,) and ↓ لُبَّدٌ, (Aboo-Jaafar, K,) and ↓ لُبُدٌ, (El-Hasan and Mujáhid,) and ↓ لُبْدٌ, (Mujáhid,) (tropical:) Much wealth; (S, K, &c.;) so in the Kur., xc., 6; (S, TA;) as also ↓ لَابِدٌ: (K:) or wealth so abundant that one fears not its coming to an end: (A, L:) some say that لُبَدٌ is a pl., and that its sing. is لُبْدَةٌ: others, that it is sing., like قُثَمٌ and حُصَمٌ: أَمْوَالٌ and مَالٌ are sometimes used in the same sense: لُبَّدٌ seems to be pl. of لَابِدٌ: (L:) so is لُبُدٌ, and so لُبْدٌ: (El-Basáïr:) also, مال لِبَدٌ, which is accord. to the reading of Zeyd Ibn-'Alee and Ibn-'Omeyr and 'Ásim, signifies collected wealth; لِبَدٌ being pl. of لِبْدَةٌ. (TA.) -A2- See لُبَدٌ.