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إِبْطٌ

Root: ابط

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إِبْطٌ [The armpit;] the inner side of the shoulderjoint: or the part beneath the جَنَاح [which signifies the arm, upper arm, armpit, and wing, &c.]: also written إِبِطٌ ; which is said to be a dial. var. by some of the moderns; but this is strange, on account of what is said respecting إِبِلٌ; for Sb says that there are only two substs. of the measure فِعِلٌ, which are إِبِلٌ and حِبِرٌ; and one epithet, namely بِلِزٌ: other instances have been mentioned, but their transmission from Sb is not established: (Msb. in art. ابل:) it is also said that there is no other word like إِبِلٌ; but this means, in its original form, and does not deny that there are words like it by the insertion of a second vowel like the first, such as this and many other words: [see also إِبِدٌ:] it is fem.; or masc. and fem.; sometimes the latter; but the making it mase. is more approved: Fr cites, from certain of the Arabs, the phrase, فَرَفَعَ السَّوْطَ حَتَّى بَرَقَتْ إِبْطُهُ [And he raised the whip so that his armpit shone]: the pl. is آبَاطٌ.
2 [Hence,] ضَرَبَ آبَاطَ الأُمُورِ وَمَغَابِنَهَا [He hit the secret and occult particulars of the affairs]. (A, TA [followed by the words وَ ٱشْتَقَّ ضَمَائِرَهَا وَبَوَاطِنَهَا, a pleonastic addition, merely explaining what goes before.])
3 And ضَرَبَ آبَاطَ المَفَازَةِ [He traversed the recesses of the desert].
4 And إِبْطُ جَبَلٍ The foot, or bottom, or lowest part, (سَفَحْ,) of a mountain.
5 And إِبْطُ رَمْلٍ The place where the main body of sand ends: or what is thin, of sand: or the lowest part of an oblong tract of sand collected together and elevated, where the main body thereof ends, and it becomes thin.
6 And إِبعطُ الشِّمَالِ Evil fortune; ill luck.


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