عَابِدٌ

A server, a worshipper, or an adorer, of God: (L:) an obeyer of God with humility, or submissiveness: (L, Msb:) [a devotee:] a unitarian: (L:) by a secondary application, used of him who takes for his god other than the True God, such as an idol, and the sun, &c.: (Msb:) plural عُبَّادٌ and عَبَدَةٌ (L, Msb) and عُبُدٌ and عُبَّدٌ, all of which are also pls. of عَبْدٌ [q. v.]: (L:) [and quasi-plural n. ↓ عَبَدٌ (like as خَدَمٌ is of خَادِمٌ), according to a reading of a phrase in the Qur'an, 5:65, as explained by some.]

And A servant: a meaning said to be tropical. (TA.)

See also عَبِدٌ, in two places.