أجْرَبُ

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أجْرَبُ and جَرِبٌ and جَرْبَانُ or جَرْبَانٌ [Mangy, or scabby;] affected with what is termed جَرَب: applied to a camel, and to a man: fem. جَرْبَآءُ and [of the second] جَرِبَةٌ: pl. جُرْبٌ and جَرْبَى and [of the first] أَجَارِبُ, which is like certain pls. of substantives, as أَجَادِلُ and أَنَامِلُ, and (of the first contrary to rule, like عِجَافٌ and بِطَاحٌ and عِصَالٌ which are pls. of أَعْجَفُ and أَبْطَحُ and أَعْصَلُ, Msb, or of the second, IB, K, or of جُرْبٌ, which is pl. of the first, S) جِرَابٌ: this last occurs in the following verse [of ‘Amr, or’ Omeyr, Ibn-El-Hobáb, or El-Khabbáb; these variations being in different copies of the K; but in the TA art. نشر, and in a copy of the S in that art. and in the present one, ‘Omeyr Ibn-El-Khabbáb]: وَفِينَا وَإِنْ قِيلَ ٱصْطَلَحْنَا تَضَاغُنٌ كَمَا طَرَّ أَوْبَارُ الجِرَابِ عَلَى النَّشْرِ Within us, though it be said that we have made peace, one with another, and we are on good terms outwardly, is mutual rancour: as the soft wool of the mangy camels grows by reason of [eating] the نشر [or herbage] that becomes green at the and of summer and is injurious to animals that pasture upon it: and it is said by IB, and in the K, that جراب, here, is pl. of جَرِبٌ, not, as J says, of جُرْبٌ: but MF observes that فِعَالٌ is the pl. measure of several words of the measure فُعْلٌ, as رُمْحٌ and دُهْنٌ, and is even said by IHsh and Ibn-Málik and AHei to be regularly applicable to sings. of this latter measure; whereas no grammarian nor Arabic scholar asserts that a word of the measure فَعِلٌ assumes فِعَالٌ as the measure of its pl.
2 [Hence,] سَيْفٌ أَجْرَبُ A sword reddened by much rust, which cannot be removed from it unless with a file.
3 And أَرْضٌ جَرْبَآءُ Land affected with. drought: or salt land, affected with drought, and containing nothing.
4 And الجَرْبَآءُ The sky; so called because of the stars and the milky way, as though it were scabbed with stars; its stars being likened to the marks of جَرَب; like as the sea is called أَجْرَدُ, and like as the sky is also called رَقِيع because [as it were] patched with stars: or that tract of the sky in which the sun and moon revolve: or the lowest heaven: and accord. to the M, جربة [so in the TA, app. جَرِبَةُ ,] is applied as a determinate [proper] name to the sky.
5 And جَرْبَآءُ A beautiful girl; so called because the women separate themselves from her, seeing that their goodly qualities are rendered foul by comparison with hers.

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