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طَوْدٌ ذ A mountain: (K:) or a great mountain (S, A, L, K) rising high into the sky: (A:) or i. q. هَضْبَةٌ [either as denoting a hill or mountain or a tract of sand: see the next sentence]: (IAar:) pl. أَطْوَادٌ (A, L, K) and طِوَدَةٌ. (K.) ― -b2- And An elevated, or overlooking, tract of sand; (K, TA;) as also هَضْبَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- And the pl. أَطْوَاد is applied by a poet to signify (tropical:) Camels' humps; as being likened to mountains because of their height. (IAar, L.) ― -b4- اِبْنُ الطَّوْدِ means (assumed tropical:) The mass of rock (الجُلْمُودُ) that falls from the upper part of a mountain: (A, L, * K: *) or the echo. (A.) One says, أَسْرَعُ مِنِ ا@بْنِ الطَّوْدِ (assumed tropical:) Quicker, or swifter, than the mass of rock that falls &c.: or than the echo. (A.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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