عُبَيْدٌ

[diminutive of عَبْدٌ.

And, used as a proper name,] The son of the desert, or of the waterless desert: thus explained by El-Kanánee to Fr. (O.)

And [hence] أُمُّ عُبَيْدٍ The desert, or waterless desert, (Fr, O, K,) that is vacant, or desolate: (K:) or the land that is vacant, or desolate: (El-Kaná- nee, Fr, O:) or the land that the rain has missed. (O, K.) And sometimes it is used as meaning (assumed tropical:) Great calamity: (TA:) it is said in a prov., وَقَعُوا فِى أُمِّ عُبَيْدٍ تَصَايَحُ حَيَّاتُهَا [for تَتَصَايَحُ, lit. They became, or found themselves, in the desert, &c., of which the serpents were hissing, one at another], meaning (assumed tropical:) [they fell] into a great calamity. (Meyd, TA.)