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1. ⇒ بدر

بَدَرَ, aor. ـُ {يَبْدُرُ}, inf. n. بَدْرٌ, It (the moon) became full. (Mṣb.)

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

He (a boy) became full-grown and round; implying comparison to the full moon. (TA.)

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

It (fruit) attained to maturity. (TA, from a trad.) [See also 4.]

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Signification: A4

It rose like the full moon. (Er Rághib.)

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Dissociation: B

See also 3, in six places.

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Signification: B2

بَدَرَتْ مِنْهُ بَوَادِرُ غضَبٍ and بَدَرَت بَوَادِرُ الخَيْلِ: see بَادِرَةٌ.

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Signification: B3

بَدَرَتِ الإِبِلَ She (a camel) brought forth at an earlier period of the year than the other camels. (TA.) [See بَدْرِيَّةٌ, voce بَدْرِىٌّ.]

Root: بدر - Entry: 1. Signification: B4

خَرَجْتُ أَبْدُرُI went forth to make water. (A.)


3. ⇒ بادر

بادرهُ, inf. n. مُبَادَرَةٌ and بِدَارٌ; andابتدرهُ↓; He hastened, or made haste, or strove to be first or beforehand, in doing [or attaining or obtaining] it; (M, Ḳ, TA, TḲ;) namely, a thing: (M:) andبَدَرَ↓ غَيْرُهُ إِلَيْهِ, (M, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَبْدُرُ}; and بادرهُ اليه; (M;) He hastened with another, or vied or strove with him in hastening, to it [or to do or attain or obtain it]: syn. عَاجَلَهُ, (M, Ḳ, TA,) and أَسْرَعَ إِلَيْهِ. (TA.) بادر [as well as بَدَرَ↓ andابتدر↓] denotes mutual effort only when it is immediately trans.: when it is trans. by means of إِلَى [or بِ (the former in the TA written by mistake على)], there is nothing to show that it denotes this. (MF.) [But it is often immediately trans. without its denoting such effort.] One says, بادرهُ He hastened to do it [&c., as explained above]; meaning, a thing that he desired, or wished for: (TA:) [and بادربِهِ signifies the same; or he hastened with it: and the former signifies also he betook himself early to him or it:] and بادر إِلَيْهِ he hastened to it; (Ṣ, A;) as alsoبَدَرَ↓ اليه, (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb,) aor. ـُ {يَبْدُرُ}, (Ṣ,) inf. n. بُدُورٌ: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) or, accord. to Zj, agreeably with its derivation, [see بَدْرٌ,] he employed the fulness of his power, or force, to hasten [to it]: (TA:) andبَدَرَهُ↓ الأَمْرُ, andبَدَرَ↓ إِلَيْهِ, (aor. ـُ {يَبْدُرُ}, inf. n. بَدْرٌ, TA, [or بُدُورٌ, as above,]) the thing, or event, came to him, or happened to him, hastily, quickly, or speedily; and, beforehand [or before he expected it]; syn. عَجِلَ, (M, Ḳ,) and سَبَقَ, (M,) or اِسْتَبَقَ: (Ḳ:) [andبَدَرَ↓ مِنْهُ قَوْلٌ, and فِعْلٌ, a saying, and an action, proceeded from him hastily, without premeditation: see بَادِرَةٌ.] It is said in a trad., بَادِرُوا بِالْأَعْمَالِ هَرَمًا [Strive ye to be before decrepitude with good works; i. e., to perform them before decrepitude]. (El-Jámiʼ es- Sagheer.) And in another, بَادِرُوا الصُّبْحَ بِالْوِتْرِ [Strive ye to be before daybreak with the prayers termed وتر; i. e., to perform them before daybreak]. (Idem.) And in another, بَادِرُوا بِصَلاَةِ المَغْرِبِ قَبْلَ طُلُوعِ النَّجْمِ [Hasten ye with, or to perform, the prayer of sunset before the rising of the star]. (Idem.) You say also, فُلَانٌ يُبَادِرُ فِى أَكْلِ مَالِ اليَتِيمِ [Such a one hastens in consuming the property of the orphan before the latter is of full age]. (A.) And بَادَرَ كِبَرَ اليَتِيمِ [He hastened to be before the orphan's attaining to full age in expending his property]; said of a guardian; i. q.أَبْدَرَ↓ فِى مَالِ اليَتِيمِ: (Ḳ:) and thus, بِدَارًاأَنْ يَكْبَرُوا, in the Ḳur [iv. 5], means hastening to be before their attaining to full age in expending their property. (Bḍ,* Jel.) And بادرهُ الغَايَةَ and إِلَى الغَايَةِ [He strove with him in hastening, or strove to get before him, to the goal]. (A.) Andابتدر↓ الغَايَةَ and إِلَى الغَايَةِ [He strove in hastening, or strove to get first, to the goal]. (Ḥam p. 46.) And بَادَرَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا إِلَى أَمْرٍ, andابتدروا↓ أَمْرًا, andتبادروهُ↓, They vied, or strove, one with another, in hastening to a thing, or an affair, trying which of them would be first. (T.)


4. ⇒ ابدر

ابدر He had the full moon rising to him, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) or upon him: (A:) a verb similar to أَقْمَرَ and أَشْرَقَ: (A:) or he journeyed during a night of full moon. (T, Ḳ.)

Root: بدر - Entry: 4. Dissociation: B

It (an unripe date) became red. (TA.) [See also 1.]

Root: بدر - Entry: 4. Dissociation: C

ابدر فِى المَالِ اليَتِيمِ: see 3.


6. ⇒ تبادر

تبادروا They hastened together; vied, or strove, one with another, in hastening; made haste to be, or get, before one another; strove, one with another, to be first, or beforehand. (Ṣ, TA.) You say, تبادروا إِلَى أَخْذِ السِّلَاحِ, (TA,) andابتدروا↓ السِّلَاحَ, (Ṣ, TA,) They hastened together,, &c., to take the weapons. (Ṣ.) And تبادروا البَاعَ [They hastened together; or vied, or strove, one with another, in hastening; to attain power, or eminence, or nobility]; as alsoابتدروهُ↓. (A.) nd تبادروا أَمْرًآ: see 3, last sentence.

Root: بدر - Entry: 6. Signification: A2

هٰذَا مَا يَتَبَادَرُ مِنْهُ[This meaning is what appears from it (namely, the phrase, or sentence,) at first sight]. (A phrase of frequent occurrence in the TA, &c.)


8. ⇒ ابتدر

see 3, in four places; and see 6, in two places.

Root: بدر - Entry: 8. Signification: A2

اِبْتَدَرَتْ عَيْنَاىَ My eyes flowed with tears. (TA, from a trad.)


Q. Q. 1. ⇒ بَيْدَرَ

بَيْدَرَ He heaped up wheat. (Ḳ.)


بَدْرٌ

بَدْرٌ, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ, &c.,) originally an inf. n., (Mṣb,) The full moon; (M, A, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoبَادِرٌ↓; (L, Ḳ;) the moon in its fourteenth night: (Ṣ:) or the latter signifies [simply] the moon: (IAạr, T:) the moon in its fourteenth night is called بدر because it hastens to rise before the sun sets; (Ṣ, M;) and to set before the sun rises: (TA:) or because of its fulness; (Ṣ, TA;) as being likened to a بَدْرَة: or, as Er-Rághib thinks to be most probable, it is itself a primitive word: (TA:) pl. بُدُورٌ. (M, A.) Hence, لَيْلَةُ البَدْرِ [The night of the full moon; which is] the fourteenth night [of the lunar month]. (Ṣ.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرٌ Signification: A2

A lord, master, or chief, (M, Ḳ,) of a people: so called as being likened to the full moon. (M.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرٌ Signification: A3

Applied to a boy, (Zj, M, Ḳ,)Full of youthful vigour and of flesh: (Zj:) or full, or plump: (M:) or i. q.مُبَادِرٌ↓ [precocious]. (T, Ḳ.) [In this sense, an epithet; and so its fem. بَدْرَةٌ (q. v.), applied to an eye.]

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرٌ Signification: A4

A cover; or a dish or plate; syn. طَبَقٌ: (Ibn-Wahb, Ḳ:) because resembling the full moon, being round: so Az thinks. (TA.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرٌ Signification: A5

See also بَدْرَةٌ, in two places.


بَدْرَةٌ

بَدْرَةٌ, applied to an eye (عَيْنٌ), Quick-sighted; or that sees before others: (Aṣ, T, Ṣ, Ḳ, TA:) or that sees before [the eyes of] other horses; applied to a horse's eye: (IAạr, T, M:) or sharp-sighted: or round and large: (M:) or full like the full moon: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) but the correct meaning is [said to be] that [mentioned above as] given by IAạr: (M:) or, accord. to IAạr, full; not defective. (T.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرَةٌ Dissociation: B

Also, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) andبَدْرٌ↓, (Ḳ,) The skin of a lamb or kid (Ṣ, M, Ḳ) when it has been weaned, (AZ, Ṣ, M,) used for milk: for [when it is killed] while it continues sucking, its skin, if used for milk, is called شَكْوَةٌ; and for clarified butter, عُكَّة: when it has been weaned, its skin for milk is called بَدْرَة; and for clarified butter, مِسْأَد: and when it is in its second year, its skin for milk is called وَطْب; and for clarified butter, نِحْى: (AZ, Ṣ:) pl. (of the former, M) بِدَرٌ and بُدُورٌ: (M, Ḳ:) the former said by El-Fárisee to be the only instance of the kind except هِضَبٌ pl. of هَضْبَةٌ, and بِضَعٌ pl. of بَضْعَةٌ [or this may be pl. of بِضْعَةٌ]. (M. [But the assertion of El-Fárisee is incorrect (see حَيْضَةٌ), unless it be meant to apply only to sound words; and in this case, at least one addition should be made, namely قِصَعٌ pl. of قَصْعَةٌ.])

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرَةٌ Signification: B2

Hence, (M,) the former word, (Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ, &c.,) and the latter also, (Ḳ,) The sum of ten thousand dirhems: (Ṣ, A:) or a purse containing a thousand, (T, M, Ḳ,) or ten thousand, dirhems, (T, M,* A, Ḳ,) or seven thousand deenárs: (Ḳ:) pl. بُدُورٌ, (TA,) and pl. of pauc. بِدَرَاتٌ. (T.)


البَدَرَى

اِسْتَبَقْنَا البَدَرَى We strove to outrun one another, vying, one with another, in haste. (M, Ḳ.)


بَدْرِىٌّ

بَدْرِىٌّ Rain that is before (قَبْلَ), or a little before (قُبَيْلَ), or in the first part of (قُبُلَ), winter. (Ḳ, accord. to different copies: the second reading is that followed in the TA.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرِىٌّ Signification: A2

بَدْرِيَّةُ A she-camel whose mother has brought her forth at an earlier period of the year than that when the others brought forth, and therefore more abundant in milk than others, and of a more generous quality. (M.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَدْرِىٌّ Signification: A3

And the former, A fat young camel weaned from its mother. (Ḳ.)


بَدَارِىٌّ

بَدَارِىٌّ A lamb brought forth a little before winter. (TA.)


بَادِرٌ

بَادِرٌ: see بَدْرٌ.


بَيْدَرٌ

بَيْدَرٌ a word of the dial. of El-'Irák, (AʼObeyd in art. ربد in the TA,) A place in which wheat, (Ṣ, Mgh, Ḳ,) or grain, (Mṣb,) is trodden out. (Ṣ, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَيْدَرٌ Signification: A2

It may also mean, tropically, ‡ The wheat and straw therein: (Mgh:) or rather, as Az says, on the authority of IAạr, it signifies [also] (Mgh) reaped grain collected together; or wheat collected together in the place in which it is trodden out; syn. كُدْسٌ, (M, Mgh, Ḳ,) and عَرَمَةٌ: (Mgh:) Kr restricts it to wheat. (M.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَيْدَرٌ Signification: A3

Accord. to the Towsheeh, it is [A place] for [drying] dates. (TA in art. جرن.)


بَادِرَةٌ

بَادِرَةٌ Hastiness of temper; passionateness: (Ṣ:) or a hasty saying, or action, that suddenly proceeds (يَبْدُرُ, in the CK يَبْدُو,) from one in anger: (M, A,* Mgh,* Mṣb,* Ḳ:) and a slip; a mistake; an error; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) on an occasion of one's being angry: (Ṣ:) or a bad, an abominable, or a foul, word or saying: and a quick fit of anger: (IAạr, T:) pl. بَوَادِرُ, (Ṣ, A.) You say, أَخْشَى عَلَيْكَ بَادِرَتَهُ I fear for thee his hastiness of temper, or passionateness: (Ṣ:) or what may hastily proceed from him in his anger. (A.) Andبَدَرَتْ↓ مِنْهُ يَوَادِرُ غَضَبٍ Slips, mistakes, or errors, on an occasion of his being angry, hastily proceeded from him. (Ṣ.) And بَادِرَةُ الشَّرِّ signifies What hastily, or suddenly, befalls one, of evil, or mischief. (M.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A2

An intuitive knowledge, notion, or idea; or a faculty of judging rightly at the first of an unexpected occurrence; or a faculty of extemporizing; syn. بَدِيهَهٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) You say, فُلَانُ حَسَنُ البَادِرَةِ Such a one has a good intuitive knowledge,, &c. (TA.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A3

The point of a sword. (M, Ḳ.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A4

The extremity of an arrow, next the head. (A.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A5

The head of a plant; (M;) the first part thereof from which the earth cleaves asunder. (M, Ḳ.*)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A6

The first that appears of the [plant called] حِنَّآء. (M.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A7

The leaves of the [herb called] حُوَّآءَة. (Ḳ.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A8

The best, and freshest in growth, of the [plant called] وَرْس. (M, Ḳ.*)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A9

Also, (M, Ḳ,) or بَوَادِرُ, (Ṣ, A,) which is the pl., (Ḳ,) of a man, &c., (Ṣ, M,) The portion of flesh, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) or the portions thereof, (A,) between the shoulder-joint and the neck, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) or between the necks and the shoulderjoints: (A:) or the former, (Ḳ,) or its dual, (M,) of a man, the two portions of flesh that are above the رُغَثَاوَانِ and below the ثَنْدُوَة: (M, Ḳ:) or the dual, [relating to a camel, signifies] the two sides of the كِرْكِرَة [or callous lump on the breast]: or two veins on either side thereof. (M.)

Root: بدر - Entry: بَادِرَةٌ Signification: A10

بَدَرَتْ↓ بَوَادِرُ الخَيْلِ The first, or fore parts, (أَوَائِل,) of the horses appeared [or suddenly came in view]. (Mṣb.)


مُبَدَّرَةٌ

بَدْرَةٌ مُبَدَّرَةٌ [A sum such as is termed بدرة aggregated, made up, or completed]: the latter word is a corroborative; like the latter in قَنَاطِيرُ مُقَنْطَرَةٌ, (Ksh and Bḍ in iii. 12,) and in أَلْفٌ مُؤَلَّفَةٌ. (Ksh ibid.)


مُبَادِرٌ

مُبَادِرٌ applied to a boy: see بَدْرٌ.


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