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آبِدَةٌ آبده آبدة fem. of آبِدٌ, q. v. ― -b2- Also, [as a subst.,] (assumed tropical:) A deed, (Har p. 364,) or a calamity, (S, M, K,) ever to be remembered, or mentioned, (S, M, K, Har,) by reason of its extraordinary nature, and its grievousness: (Har:) or a great, or formidable, event, at which people take fright, or are alarmed: (TA:) or a strange, abominable, or evil, thing: (Ham p. 627:) pl. أَوَابِدُ. (K.) You say, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ بِآبِدَةٍ Such a one did, or brought to pass, [a deed or] calamity ever to be remembered, or mentioned. (S.) See also 2. ― -b3- (tropical:) A strange, an unusual, or an unfamiliar, word or saying; one far from being intelligible; (M;) pl. أَوَابِدُ, signifying expressions of subtile meanings; so called because remote from perspicuity. (Msb.) ― -b4- The pl. also signifies (tropical:) Strange, unusual, unfamiliar, or extraordinary, rhymes, or verses, or poems; syn. شَوَارِدُ مِنَ القَوَافِى, (S,) or قَوَافٍ شُرَّدٌ. (K.) El-Farezdak says, “ لَنْ تُدْرِكُوا كَرَمِى بِلُؤْمِ أَبِيكُمُ
وَ أَوَابِدِى بِتَنَحُّلِ الأَشْعَارِ
” [Ye will not attain to my nobility with the ignobleness of your father, nor to my extraordinary verses by arrogating to yourselves the verses of other men]. (S.) [See أَبَدَ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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