ذَنُوبٌ

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ذَنُوبٌ A horse having a long tail: or having a full, or an ample, tail. [See also أَذْنَبٌ.]
2 Hence applied to a day: see ذَنَبٌ, in the latter half of the paragraph.
3 Also A great دَلْو [or bucket]: or one that has a [or tail]: or one that is full of water; not applied to one that is empty: or one that is nearly full of water: or one containing less than fills it: or one containing water: or a دَلْو in any case: or a bucketful of water: masc. and fem.; sometimes the latter: pl. أَذْنِبَةٌ and ذَنَائِبُ and ذِنَابٌ. Fr. cites as an ex., لَنَا ذَنُوبٌ وَلَكُمْ ذَنُوبُ فَإِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ فَلَنَا القَلِيبُ [as meaning For you shall be a great bucket, and for us a great bucket: or, if ye refuse this, for us shall be the well]. [Accord. to the K, it also signifies A grave: but this is evidently a mistake, which seems to have arisen from a misunderstanding of a statement by ISd, who says,] Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses it metaphorically in relation to a grave, calling it [i. e. the grave] a well, in his saying, فَكُنْتُ ذَنُوبَ البِئْرَ لَمَّا تَبَسَّلَتْ وَسُرْبِلْتُ أَكْفَانِى وَوُسِّدْتُ سَاعِدِى [app. meaning And I was as though I were the corpse of the grave when she frowned, and clad with my grave-clothes, and made to recline upon my upper arm: for the corpse is laid in the grave upon its right side, or so inclined that the face is turned towards Mekkeh]. [And Umeiyeh Ibn-Abee- 'Áïdh El-Hudhalee, describing a wild he-ass and she-asses, likens to it a certain rate of running which he contrasts with another rate likened by him to a well such as is termed خَسِيفٌ: see Kosegarten's “ Carmina Hudsailitarum, ” p. 189.]
4 Hence metaphorically applied to Rain.
5 [Hence, also,] A lot, share, or portion: [see the former of the two verses cited in this paragraph:] in this sense masc.: and in this sense it is used in the Kur li. last verse but one.

def.2 Also The flesh of the [portion of the back next the back-bone, on either side, which is called the] مَتْن: or the part where the مَتْن ends; the flesh of the lower, or lowest, part of the مَتْن: or the [buttocks, or parts called] أَلْيَة and مَأْكِم: or the flesh of the أَلْيَة and مَآكِم: and the ذَنُوبَانِ are the [two parts called the] مَتْنَانِ, on this side and on that [of the back-bone]: or ذَنُوبُ المَتْنِ means the flesh that is called يَرَابِيعُ المَتْنِ [which are the portions of flesh next the back-bone, on either side thereof].

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