Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تَرَبُوتٌ

Root: ترب

Full Definition

تَرَبُوتٌ A submissive, or tractable, camel; applied to the male and to the female: from تُرَابٌ, because of the abasement thereof; or, as Sb holds it to be, for دَرَبُوتٌ, by the change of د into ت: accord. to Lh, a [camel such as is termed] بَكْر that is trained, or rendered submissive or tractable; and in like manner a she-camel, one that will follow a person if he takes hold of her lip or her eyelash: and As, who derives it from تٌرَابٌ, says that this epithet is applied to land, or ground, and any other thing, that is ذَلُول [i.e. easy to walk or ride upon, &c.].


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