לֵידָה, birth, giving birth. Ab. Zar. I, 3 יום הל׳ birthday. Y. Ber. II, 4ᵈ top אשרי … כשעת לֵידָתוֹ וכ׳ happy he whose time of death is like his time of birth, as when he was born he was innocent &c. Sabb. II, 6 בשעת לֵידָתָן (or לִידְתָּן) in their hour of confinement. Nidd. 29ᵇ; a. fr.—טמאה ל׳ (sub. טומאת) subject to the laws of cleanness for a woman in confinement (Lev. XII, 2—8). Ib. 23ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. לֵידוֹת. Y. ib. III, 50ᶜ; a. fr.