ذَبٌّ

Root: ذب

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ذَبٌّ Repelling: fem. with ة: hence ذَبَّاتُ السَّبِيبِ, a phrase used by Dhu-r-Rummeh, meaning repelling with their tails: or this may be from the signification next following.

def.2 Much in motion. ذَبٌّ, or ذَابٌّ , [the former correct, and perhaps the latter also,] applied to a camel, That does not, or will not, remain still, or motionless, in a place. A poet says, فَكَأَنَّنَا فِيهِمْ جِمَالٌ ذَبَّةٌ [And it was as though we were, among them, camels that would not remain still in a place]: which shows that ذَبٌّ is not an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet; for, were it so, he had said جِمَالٌ ذَبٌّ.
2 الذَّبُّ The wild bull; [a species of bovine antelope;] also called ذَبُّ الرِّيَادِ; so called because he goes to and fro, not remaining in one place; or because he pastures going to and fro; or because his females pasture with him, going to and fro: and called also , by poetic license, for الذَّبُّ; and الذُّنْبُبُ .
3 ذَبُّ الرِّيَادِ is also applied to A man who goes and comes. And A man who is in the habit of visiting women.

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