مَغْدٌ

1.
The flower, or flourishing period, of youth. (En-Nadr, L.)
2.
Soft; tender; delicate: pleasant; easy and ample: synonym نَاعِمٌ: (S, L, K:) applied to the period of youth: (S, L:) and to life, or a manner of living. (L.)
3.
Also, (K,) or مَغْدُ الجِسْمِ, (L,) Soft and plump: applied to a camel: (L, K:) or (so in the L; in the K, and) big, or bulky; (L, K;) as also مَعْدٌ; (L;) and tall: (K:) applied to anything. (L.)
4.
مَغْدٌ, applied to the غُرَّة, or blaze, on the forehead or face of a horse; apparently a verbal noun used in the sense of a pass. particle n.; Having the hair plucked out in order that it may become gray: (L:) the term مَغْدٌ is used with relation to the blaze of a horse when it appears as though it were swollen; for the hair is plucked out in order that it may grow white: (S, L:) and with relation to the forelock, when it is as though burnt. (L.)
5.
مَغْدٌ (L, K) and مَغَدٌ (L) The fruit of the [tree called] تَنْضُب: or (so in the L; but in the K, and) the [plant called] لُفَّاح [q. v.]: (L, K:) or the wild لفّاح: (L:) or, both words, (so in the L; but in the K, and) the [plant called] بَاذِنْجَان: (L, K:) or a plant resembling the ناذنجان, growing at the roots of the عِضَه: (L:) and the former word, a fruit resembling the cucumber, (Aboo-Sa'eed, L, K,) which is eaten: (Aboo-Sa'eed, L:) or a kind of tree that twines about other trees, more slender than the vine, having long, thin, and soft, leaves, and producing a fruit like that of the banana, but thinner in the peel and more juicy, which is sweet, and is not peeled [to be eaten], with pips like those of the apple; people share this fruit among themselves, taking it by turns, alighting where it grows, and eating it; it appears first green; then becomes yellow; and then, at last, green [again, or probably red; for I think that يخضرّ, in the L, from which this is taken, is a mistake for يحمرّ]: the word is a coll. gen. n.: and] the n. un. is with ة: (AHn, L:) ISd says, I have not heard مَغَدَةٌ; but مَغَدٌ may be a quasi-plural n. of مَغْدَةٌ; like as حَلَقٌ is of حَلْقَةٌ, and فَلَكٌ of فَلْكَةٌ. (L.)
6.
مَغْدٌ i. q. صَرَبَةٌ, meaning as explained above, at 1: (S, L,) also, the gum of the lote-tree, سِدْر: (Aboo-Sa'eed, L:) or, of the lok-tree of the desert. (S, L.)

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