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تَبَلْدِيّ (tabaldiyym (collective, singulative تَبَلْدِيَّة f (tabaldiyya))

  1. baobab (Adansonia genus and species)
    • 1850, محمد بن عمر التونسي [Muḥammad Ibn-ʿUmar at-Tūnisī ], edited by Humphrey Davies, تشحيذ الأذهان بسيرة بلاد العرب والسودان [In Darfur. An Account of the Sultanate and Its People] (Library of Arabic Literature; 15), volume 2, New York: NYU Press, published 2018, →ISBN, section 4.10, page 212:
      والتبلدي وهو شجر عظيم ضخم أجوف الجذع ينبت في الفيافي وأهل البادية إذا اشتدّ بهم العطش في غير وقت الأمطار يأتون إلى التبلدي فيجدون في تجويفه ماء مجتمّعًا من المطر فيشربون منه ويذهب أوامهم
      There is also the baobab, which is a vast, mighty tree with a hollow trunk that grows in the deserts. When desert dwellers near utter thirst in the dry season, they go to the baobab and find rainwater that has collected in its cavity.
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تَبْلُدِي (tabludī) (form I)

  1. second-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of بَلُدَ (baluda)
  2. second-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of بَلُدَ (baluda)

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تُبَلِّدِي (tuballidī) (form II)

  1. second-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of بَلَّدَ (ballada)
  2. second-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of بَلَّدَ (ballada)

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تُبَلَّدِي (tuballadī) (form II)

  1. second-person feminine singular non-past passive subjunctive of بَلَّدَ (ballada)
  2. second-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive of بَلَّدَ (ballada)

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تَبَلَّدِي (taballadī) (form V)

  1. second-person feminine singular active imperative of تَبَلَّدَ (taballada)