خفيدد

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Arabic[edit]

Root
خ ف د (ḵ-f-d)

Adjective[edit]

خَفَيْدَد (ḵafaydad) (common plural خَفَادِد (ḵafādid) or خَفَادِيد (ḵafādīd), feminine plural خَفَيْدَدَات (ḵafaydadāt)) (Classical Arabic)

  1. rapid, fast in its course
    • a. 1218, فتيان الشاغوري فتيان بن علي الأسدي, ar: إليك المطايا أعنقت يا محمد (first line)[1]:
      تَخِبُّ بِهِ بَيْنَ النَّعَامِ خَفَيْدَدُ
      taḵibbu bihi bayna n-naʕāmi ḵafaydadu
      Trots there swiftly between the ostriches

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Noun[edit]

خَفَيْدَد (ḵafaydadm (plural خَفَادِد (ḵafādid) or خَفَادِيد (ḵafādīd)) (Classical Arabic, poetic)

  1. ostrich
    • a. 625, الأعشى al-ʾaʿšā, edited by Geyer, Rudolf, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎[2], volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, page 102:
      وَشِمِلَّةٍ حَرْفٍ كَأَنَّ قُتُودَهَا … جَلَّلْتُهَا (var. لَبَسْتُهَا) جَوْنَ السَّرَاةِ خَفَيْدَدًا
      wašimillatin ḥarfin kaʔanna qutūdahā … jallaltuhā (var. labastuhā) jawna s-sarāti ḵafaydadan
      Some hardy she-camel the saddle-woods of which I applied like upon a black-backed ostrich

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