لبد

Arabic

لِبْد

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic לִיבְדָּא (liḇdā, “felt”),[1][2][3] with everything else under the root from this noun, as sensibly also Classical Syriac ܠܒܕ (“to compact, to press together”) and related verb stems.

Noun

لِبْد • (libd) m (plural لُبُود (lubūd) or أَلْبَاد (ʔalbād))

  1. felt
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُجلب من البلدان من طرائف السلع والأمتعة والجواري والأحجار وغير ذلك [What one imports from strange countries in items, commodities, she-slaves, stones and else.]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎:
      ومن أرمينية وأذربيجان: اللُّبُود … والبراذع والفُرُش والبُسُط الرِّقاق والتِّكَك والصوف.
      And from Armenia and Azerbayjān one gets felts, … (something unreadable) pack-saddles, furnishing fabrics, fine carpets, girdles, and wool.

Declension

Noun

لَبَد • (labad) m

  1. wool

Declension

Adjective

لَبِد • (labid)

  1. clinging firmly together, compact or coherent

Declension

Noun

لِبَد • (libad) pl

  1. plural of لِبْدَة (libda, “felt-cap; the hair collected at the neck of a lion, mane”)

Noun

لُبَد • (lubad) pl

  1. plural of لُبْدَة (lubda, “mane”)

Verb

لَبَدَ • (labada) I, non-past يَلْبُدُ‎ (yalbudu)

  1. to stick, to cling, to adhere

Conjugation

Verb

لَبَّدَ • (labbada) II, non-past يُلَبِّدُ‎ (yulabbidu)

  1. to cause to stick together, to fix upon
  2. to cover or mat with felt or wool, to make a felt structure
  3. to waulk, to full

Conjugation

References

  1. Sokoloff, Michael (2002) A Dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Talmudic and Geonic periods, Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University, page 624b
  2. Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 103
  3. Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1136 who also suggest the Aramaic being altered from the etymon of نَمَط (namaṭ).

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لبد”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 80
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “لبد”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 958
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “لبد”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 821
  • “lbd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • “lbd”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
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