حَالِبٌ
Root: حلب
Full Definition
حَالِبٌ
A milker; as also
حَلُوبٌ ; but the latter has an intensive signification: pl. حَلَبَةٌ. You say, هُمْ حَلَبَةُ الإِبِلِ [They are the milkers of the camels]. And شّتَّى
تَؤُوبُ الحَلَبَهْ [Separately the milkers return]: for when they assemble to milk their camels, each occupies himself with milking his own, and then they return, one after another; or they water them together, and return separately to their abodes, where each one milks: a prov., relating to the manners of men in assembling and separating: you should not say الحَلَمَهْ. IKtt gives it differently, thus: حَتَّى تَؤُوبَ الحَلَبَهْ [Until the milkers return]: but the former reading is that commonly known. لَيْسَ لَهَا
رَاعٍ وَلٰكِنَّ حَلَبَةٌ [They have not a pastor, but milkers] is another prov., applied to a man who asks thine aid, and whom thou aidest, but on whose part there is no aid.
2 [Hence,] الحَالِبَانِ
2 [Hence,] الحَالِبَانِ
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