أَجَبُّ

Root: جب

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أَجَبُّ A camel having his hump cut off: or having his hump cut off: or having his hump eroded by the saddle, so that it does not grow large: or having no hump: fem. جَبَّآءُ.
2 And [hence,] the fem., A woman not having [prominent] buttocks: or i. q. رَسْحَآءُ [i. e. having small buttocks sticking together; or having little flesh in her posteriors and things]: or whose bosom and breasts have not become large: or whose breast has not become large: or small in the breast; from the same epithet applied to a she-camel; for a woman having small breasts is like the camel that has no hump: or having no thighs; i. e. having lean thighs; as though having no thighs. Also, the masc., A pubes having little flesh.
3 [Hence, also,] الأَجَبُّ i. q. الفَرْجُ [as meaning The pudendum muliebre]; from the same word as applied to a camel [having no hump].

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