, originally an epithet, but used as a subst., (
Sb,
TA,)
A male slave; (
S,
A,
O,
L,
Msb,
K;)
i. q.
مَمْلُوكٌ; (
L,
K;) [but
عَبْدٌ is now generally applied to
a male black slave; and
مَمْلُوكٌ, to
a male white slave; and this distinction has long obtained;]
contr. of
حُرٌّ; (
S,
A,
O,
L,
Msb;) as also
↓
عَبْدَلٌ, (
L,
K,) in which the
ل is augmentative: (L:) and
a servant, or
worshipper, of God, and of a false god, or of the Devil: (Lth, L, &c.:) [you say
عَبْدُ اللّٰهِ and
عَبْدُ الشَّمْسِ &c.: see also
عَابِدٌ, which signifies the same; and see the remarks in this paragraph on the pls.
عَبِيدٌ and
عِبَادٌ and
عَبَدَةٌ &c.:] and
a man, or
human being; (
M,
A,
L,
K;) as being
a bondman (
مَرْبُوبٌ)
to his Creator; (
L;) applied to
a male and to
a female; (Ibn-Hazm, TA;)
whether free or a slave: (K:) pl.
أَعْبُدٌ (
S,
O,
Msb,
K) and
أَعْبِدَةٌ and
أَعْبَادٌ, (IKtt,
TA,) [all pls. of pauc.,] of which the first is the most commonly known, (
Msb,) and
↓
عَبِيدٌ and
عِبَادٌ, (
S,
O,
Msb,
K,) which two and the first are the most commonly known of all the many pls. of
عَبْدٌ, (
Msb,)
عَبِيدٌ being like
كَلِيبٌ as pl. of
كَلْبٌ, a rare form of pl.; (
S,
O;) or, accord. to some, it is a quasipl. n.; accord. to Ibn-Málik,
فَعِيلٌ occurs as a pl. measure, but sometimes they use it in the manner of a pl. and make it fem., as in the instance of
عَبِيدٌ, and sometimes they use it in the manner of quasi-pl. ns. and make it masc., as in the instances of
حَجِيجٌ and
كَلِيبٌ; (
MF;) [accord. to the general and more approved opinion, it is a quasi-pl. n., and therefore fem. and masc., but most commonly fem.;] and further it should be remarked that the common people agree in making a difference between
عَبِيدٌ and
عِبَادٌ, by the former meaning
slaves [and by the latter meaning
servants of God and also simply, with the article
ال,
mankind], saying,
هٰؤُلَآءِ عَبِيدٌ
these are slaves, and
هٰذَا عَبْدٌ مِنْ عِبَادِ اللّٰهِ [
this is a servant, of the servants of God]: (Az, L:) [and a distinction is also made between
عِبَادٌ and
عَبَدَةٌ, respecting which see what follows:] other pls. of
عَبْدٌ are
عُبْدَانٌ, (
S,
O,
K,) like
تُمْرَانٌ pl. of
تَمْرٌ, (
S,
O,) and
عِبْدَانٌ, (
S,
O,
K,) like
جِحْشَانٌ pl. of
جَحْشٌ, (
S,
O,) and
عُبُدٌ, (
S,
O,
K,) like
سُقُفٌ pl. of
سَقْفٌ, (
S,
O,) or this is pl. of
عَبِيدٌ, like
رُغُفٌ pl. of
رَغِيفٌ, (
Zj,) and is also a pl. of
عَابِدٌ, (
L,) and some read [in the Kur v. 65]
عُبُدَ الطَّاغُوتِ, (
Akh,
S,
O,) and
عُبْدٌ (
MF) and
عُبُودٌ and
عُبَّدٌ and
عُبَّادٌ and
عَبَدَةٌ, (IKtt,
TA,) the last three of which are also pls. of
عَابِدٌ: (L:) one says of the worshippers of a plurality of gods,
هُمْ عَبَدَةُ
الطَّاغُوتِ [
they are the servants of Et-Tághoot]; but the Muslims one calls
عِبَادُ اللّٰهِ, meaning
the servants, or
worshippers, of God: (Lth, L:) [all these are pls. in the proper sense of the term, of the broken class:] and
عَبْدُونَ, (
O,
K,) a pl. of the sound class, adopted because
عَبْدٌ is originally an epithet: (TA:) and [the following, with the exception of the first, and of some which are particularized as being pls. of pls., are also said to be pls., but are properly speaking quasi-pl. ns., namely,]
↓
عَبُدٌ, (
O,
K,) accord. to some, who read [in the Kur ubi suprà]
عَبُدَ الطَّاغُوتِ, making the former a prefixed noun, as meaning
the servants (
خَدَم)
of Et-Tághoot; but it is a n. of the measure
فَعُلٌ, like
حَذُرٌ and
نَدُسٌ, not a pl.; the meaning being
the servant (
خَادِم)
of Et- Tághoot; (
Akh,
S,
O;) and it is also used by poetic license for
عَبْدٌ; (
Fr,
T,
S,
O;) and
↓
عِبِدَّانٌ and
↓
عِبِدَّآءُ and
↓
عِبِدَّى; (
S,
O,
K;) or, accord. to some, the last of these signifies
slaves born in a state of slavery; and the
female is termed
↓
عَبْدَةٌ; and Lth says that
↓
عِبِدَّى signifies
a number of slaves born in a state of slavery, generation after generation; but Az says that this is a mistake, that
عِبِدَّى اللّٰهِ signifies the same as
عبَادُ اللّٰهِ, that it is thus used in a trad., and that
عِبِدَّى is applied in another trad. to poor men of the class called
أَهْلُ الصُّفَّة; (
L;) and
↓
عُبُدَّآءُ and
↓
عِبِدَّةٌ and
↓
عِبَادٌّ (IKtt,
TA) and
↓
مَعْبَدَةٌ, like
مَشْيَخَةٌ, (
T,
O,
K,) and
↓
مَعْبُودَآءُ (Yaakoob, S, O, K) and
↓
مَعْبُودَى, (IKtt,
TA,) and [pl. pl.]
↓
مَعَابِدُ, (
O,
K,) said to be pl. of
مَعْبَدَةٌ; (
TA;) and pl. pl.
أَعَابِدُ, (
K,) pl. of
أَعْبُدٌ; (
TA;) and
عَبِيدُونَ, (Es-Suyootee, MF,) app. pl. of
↓
عَبِيدٌ. (
MF.)
فَادْخُلِى فِى عِبَادِى, in the Kur lxxxix. 29, means
Then enter thou among my righteous servants: (Ksh, Bd, Jel:) or it means
فِى حِزْبِى [
among my peculiar party]. (
S,
O.)
Also (tropical:)
Ignoble, or
base-born; like as
حُرٌّ is used to signify “ generous, ” “ noble, ” or “ well-born. ” (Mgh in art.
حر.) -A2- Also
A certain plant, of sweet odour, (
O,
K,
TA,)
of which the camels are fond because it makes the milk to become plentiful, and fattens; it is sharp, or
hot, (
حَادّ O, or
حَارّ TA,)
in temperament; and when they depasture it they become thirsty, and seek the water: (O, TA:) so says IAar. (
O.) -A3- And
A short and broad
نَصْل [or
arrow-head, or
spear-head, or
blade]. (AA, O, * K.)