وَبَدٌ
1.
Hardness, straitness, or difficulty, of life, or manner of living: evilness of one's state, or condition, (S, M, L, K,) by reason of the largeness of his family, and the littleness of his property: (M, L:) indigence; (M;) poverty, adversity; (T, L;) largeness of family, and littleness of property: (K:) plural أَوْبَادٌ. See 1.
2.
وَبَدٌ, a verbal noun used as an epithet, and [therefore] singular and plural, A man, and men, in an evil state, or condition: and sometimes أَوْبَادٌ is used as its plural; (S, L, K;) as though it were imagined to be a proper epithet: (S, L:) or this is for ذَوُوا أَوْبَادٍ: (M, L:) also
مُسْتَوْبِدٌ signifies the same [applied to a single person]: (S, L, K:) and وَبَدٌ, (TA,) or
وَبْدٌ, (L,) a poor man: plural أَوْبَادٌ. (L, TA.)