جَنِيبٌ
Root: جنب
Full Definition
2 Any animal or man that is obedient, tractable, or submissive. You say, أَصْبَحَ جَنِيبَهُ He became compliant to him.
def.2 See also جُنُبٌ.
def.3 Also, applied to a man, [app. Having a pain in the side; or having the pleurisy; like مَجْنُوبٌ: and hence, or from جَنِبَ, q. v., irregularly formed,] as though walking on one side, bent or crooked, مُتَعَقِّفًا: so in the L: in the M and K, on the authority of IAar, مُتَعَقِّبًا [to which I am unable to assign an appropriate meaning, except its modern one of lagging behind]: so in the saying of a poet,
[Hunger increased in him ; so that he seemed as though he walked on one side, bent thereby; for he who has a pain in his side walks on one side, in that manner].رَبَا الجُوعُ فِى أَوْنَيْهِ حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ جَنِيبٌ بِهِ إِنَّ الجَنِيبَ جَنِيبُ
def.4 Also An excellent kind of dates, well known; one of the best kinds of dates. (Mgh in art. جمع, Msb.)
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