تَرَائِبُ

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تَرَائِبُ , which signifies The part of the breast which is the place of the collar, or necklace: so by the common consent of the lexicologists: or the bones of the breast: or the bones of the breast that are between the collar-bone and the pap: or the part of the breast, or chest, that is next to the two collar-bones: or the part that is between the two breasts and the collar-bones: or four ribs of the right side of the chest and four of the left thereof: or the two arms and two legs and two eyes: it is also said that the تَرِيبَتَانِ are the two ribs that are next to the two collar-bones: IAth says that the تَرِيبَة is the uppermost part of the human breast, beneath the chin; and its pl. is as above: accord. to IF, in the Mj, the is the breast, or chest: MF says that ترائب relates to males and females in common; but most of the authors on strange words affirm decidedly that it is peculiar to women: the تَرِيبَة of the camel is the part in which it is stabbed, or stuck; syn. مَنْحَر.

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