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لبد
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaلِبْدَةٌ ذ (tropical:) The mass of hair between the shoulderblades of the lion, (S, A, K,) intermingled, and compacted together: (A:) and the like upon a camel's hump: (T, L:) pl. لِبَدٌ. (S.) Hence the proverb, هُوَ أَمْنَعُ مِنْ لِبْدَةِ الأَسَدِ [ He, or it, is more unapproachable, or inaccessible, than the mass of hair between the shoulder-blades of the lion ]. (S, A.) Hence also ذُو لِبْدَةٍ is an appel-lation of the lion; (T, S, A, K;) and so ذُو لِبَدٍ. (T, A,) ― -b2- See لِبْدٌ and لُبَدٌ.
Derived headwords
لِبْدَةٌ
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هُوَ أَمْنَعُ مِنْ لِبْدَةِ الأَسَدِ
ذُو لِبْدَةٍ
ذُو لِبَدٍ