ابِدَةٌ

feminine of ابِدٌ, q. v.

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:) plural أَوَابِدُ. (K.) You say, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ بِابِدَةٍ Such a one did, or brought to pass, [a deed or] calamity ever to be remembered, or mentioned. (S.) See also 2.

(tropical:) A strange, an unusual, or an unfamiliar, word or saying; one far from being intelligible; (M;) plural أَوَابِدُ, signifying expressions of subtile meanings; so called because remote from perspicuity. (Msb.)

The plural also signifies (tropical:) Strange, unusual, unfamiliar, or extraordinary, rhymes, or verses, or poems; synonym شَوَارِدُ مِنَ القَوَافِى, (S,) or قَوَافٍ شُرَّدٌ. (K.) El-Farezdak says,

لَنْ تُدْرِكُوا كَرَمِى بِلُوءْمِ 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.]