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آبِدٌ آبد Remaining, staying, abiding, or dwelling, constantly, continually, or permanently, in a place; applied to a man [and to a bird]. (L.) And أَوَابِدُ [pl. of آبِدَةٌ] Birds that remain in a country constantly, winter and summer; (T, L;) contr. of قَوَاطِعُ. (A, L.) ― -b2- For the phrases أَبَدٌ آبِدٌ and أَبَدَ الآبِدِينَ, see أَبَدٌ. ― -b3- A wild animal; (M, L, Msb;) that shuns, and takes fright at, mankind, amp;c.: (L, Msb:) fem. with ة: pl. [properly fem.] أَوَابِدُ, (M, Mgh, L,) and [masc. and fem.] أُبَّدٌ: (M, L:) and ↓ أَبُودٌ is syn. with آبِدٌ; (M;) as also ↓ مُتَأَبِّدٌ . (A.) Wild animals are called أَوَابِدُ (S, M, L, K) and أُبَّدٌ (M, L, K) because they endure for a long, or [naturally] unlimited, time; (M, L;) because they do not die a natural death, (As, M, L, K,) but from some evil accident; and the same is asserted of the serpent. (As, M, L.) [See also أَبِدٌ.] [Hence,] قَيْدُ الأَوَابِدِ (assumed tropical:) The light, or active, horse, which overtakes the wild animals, and which they can hardly, or never, escape: so called because he prevents their escaping the pursuer like a shackle. (Msb.) [See also art. قيد.] [Hence also the saying,] النِّعَمُ أَوَابِدُ فَقَيِّدُوهَا بِالشُّكْرِ (tropical:) [Benefits are fugitive, or fleeting; therefore detain ye them by gratitude]. (A trad.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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