بَادِيَةٌ
1.
(T, S, &c.) A desert; so called because of its being open, or uncovered; (TA;) opposite of
حَضَرٌ; (M, K;) as also
بَدْوٌ, (S, * M, Msb, K,) and
بَادَاةٌ, (M, K,) or
بَدَاةٌ, (TA, [thought by SM to be the correct form because found by him in the M, in which I find باداة,]) and
بَدِىٌّ, said to be used as synonym with بَادِيَةٌ in a verse of Lebeed cited among the exs. of the preposition بِ, p. 142, (TA,) and
بدَاوَةٌ (M, K) and
بِدَاوَةٌ; (M;) [of which the last two and the second (namely, بَدْوٌ,) seem to be originally inf. ns.; see 1:] or a land in which are no towns or villages or cultivated soil: (Lth, T:) or the places to which people migrate from the constant sources of water, when they go forth to the desert, seeking the vicinity of herbage; also termed مَبَادٍ, which is synonym with
مَنَاجِعُ, opposite of
مَحَاضِرُ, and plural of
مَبْدًى, (T,) this last signifying the opposite of
مَحْضَرٌ: (S:) the plural of بَادِيَةٌ is بَوَادٍ. (T, Msb.)
2.
See also بَادٍ.