بَيْدَانَةٌ

A she-ass; a subst. applied to that animal: (S:) or a wild she-ass: (M, K:) or one that inhabits a desert (بَيْدَاء); (T, K;) [an epithet;] not a subst. applied to the animal; J being in error in asserting it to be such: (K:) the [wild] she-ass is thus called, according to most of the lexicologists, because it inhabits the بيداء; and if so, the ن is an augmentative letter: or, according to some, because it is large in the body (البَدَن); and if so, the ن is a radical letter: (L:) the plural is بَيْدَانَاتٌ. (L, K.)