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4 ابدعهُ أبدع أبدعه ابدعه ابدعة بدع He originated it; invented it; devised it; excogitated it; innovated it; made it, did it, produced it, caused it to be or exist, or brought it into existence, newly, for the first time, it not having been or existed before, and not after the similitude of anything pre-existing; syn. اِخْتَرَعَهُ لَا عَلَى مِثَالٍ, (S,) and اسْتَخْرَجَهُ, and أَحْدَثَهُ, (Msb,) and أَبْدَأَهُ; (K, TA; but in both without the pronoun;) as also ↓ ابتدعه ; (Msb;) syn. اِبْتَدَأَهُ, and أَحْدَثَهُ, (Mgh,) and أَنْشَأَهُ, (K,) and بَدَأَهُ; (TA;) and so ↓ بَدَعَهُ , aor. بَدَعَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. بَدْعٌ; (TA;) but أَبْدَعَ is more commonly used than بَدَعَ. (TA.) You say, ابدع ا@للّٰهُ الخَلْقَ God created the creation, not after any similitude. (Msb.) And in the Kur [lvii. 27], we find, ↓ وَ رَهْبَانِيَّةً ا@بْتَدَعُوهَا And monkery which they originated, or innovated. (TA.) And you say, ↓ بَدَعَ الرَّكِيَّةَ, (IDrd, K,) inf. n. بَدْعٌ, (IDrd,) He produced, or fetched out, by his labour in digging, the water of the well; (IDrd, K;) and originated it; or made it to be for the first time, it not having been before. (IDrd.) And ابدع الرَّجُلُ The man introduced an innovation, or what is termed a بِدْعَة; [the object being understood;] as also ↓ ابتدع . (TA.) And ابدع الشَّاعِرُ The poet produced a new saying, or new poetry, not after the similitude of anything preceding. (S, * K, * TA.) ― -b2- ابدعت الرَّاحِلَةُ, (S, K,) or الرِّكَابُ, (Ks, Mgh,) The ridden camel, or travelling camel, became fatigued, or jaded, and broke down, or perished; (Ks, S, Mgh, K;) as though doing a new thing: (Ks, Mgh:) or the former phrase, (K,) followed by بِهِ, (TA,) she limped [with him], halted, or was slightly lame: (K, TA:) or she lay down upon her breast in the road, by reason of emaciation or disease: or she ceased from going on, by reason of fatigue, or of limping, or halting, or slight lameness; as though she did a new and unaccustomed thing: (TA:) or ابداع is not without limping, or halting, or slight lameness, (K, TA,) accord. to certain of the Arabs of the desert; but, says AO, this is not at variance with the explanations given. (TA.) And أُبْدِعَ بِالرَّجُلِ The man's camel which he rode became fatigued, or jaded: (S:) or أُبْدِعَ بِفُلَانٍ (Mgh, K) such a one's camel which he rode ceased from going on, by reason of fatigue or lameness: (Mgh:) or broke down, or perished, (K, TA,) or became fatigued, or jaded, (TA,) and he became unable to prosecute his journey; (K, TA;) and his beast became so fatigued that it was left to remain where it was; or stood still with him. (TA.) [See also أُعْبِدَ بِهِ.] It is said in a proverb, إِِذَا طَلَبْتَ البَاطِلَ أُبْدِعَ بِكَ [When thou seekest what is vain, or false, thou wilt be prevented from attaining thine object]. (TA.) ― -b3- أَبْدَعَ فُلَانٌ بِفُلَانٍ (tropical:) Such a one prevented such a one from attaining his wish, (قَطَعَ بِهِ,) and abstained from aiding, or assisting, him, and did not undertake the accomplishment of his want, (Lh, K, TA,) and was not [at hand] when he thought he would be. (TA.) ― -b4- أَبْدَعَتْ حُجَّتُهُ (tropical:) His argument, or plea, or the like, was, or became, vain, or false, or ineffectual: (Aboo-Sa'eed, K:) or was, or became, weak. (A, TA.) And أُبْدِعَتْ حُجَّتُهُ (tropical:) His argument, or plea, &c., was rendered vain, or ineffectual. (Aboo-Sa'eed, K, * TA.) أَبْدَعَ بِرُّهُ بِشُكْرِى وَفَضْلُهُ وَ إِيجَابُهُ بِوَصْفِى (assumed tropical:) [His kindness has crippled my power of thanking, and his bounty, and the obligation which he has imposed, my power of description]: so in the L; but in the O and K, قَصْدُهُ [his intention] is put in the place of فضله; and in the K, وايجابه is omitted: (TA:) said when one thanks another for his beneficence, acknowledging that his thanks are inadequate to his beneficence. (K.) -A2- ابدع بِالحَجِّ, and بِالسَّفَرِ, He determined, resolved, or decided, upon pilgrimage, and upon journeying. (TA.) ― -b2- ابدع يَمِينًا He rendered an both binding, or obligatory. (IAar.) -A3- ابدعوا بِهِ They beat him, or struck him. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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