ذَابَ

Form: 1

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ذَابَI , Present.T يَذُوبُ, Verbal.Noun ذَوْبٌ and ذَوَبَانٌ, It melted, dissolved, or became fluid or liquid; contr. of جَمَدَ: it flowed.
2 [Hence,] ذاب دَمْعُهُ [His tears flowed]. And ذَابَتْ حَدَقَتُهُ [His eye] shed tears; or flowed [with tears].
3 ذاب جِسْمُهُ His body became lean, or emaciated: one says, ثَابَ بَعْدَمَا ذَابَ [He became fat after he had been lean].
4 And ذَابَ [alone] He became foolish, or stupid, after having been intelligent.
5 نَحْنُ لَا نَجْمُدُ فِى الحَقِّ وَلَا نَذُوبُ فِى البَاطِلِ [We will not be hard, or niggardly, in the case of truth, or right, nor will we be soft, or easily yielding, in the case of falsity, or wrong].
6 هٰذَا الكَلَامُ فِيهِ ذَوْبُ الرُّوحِ [This speech, or discourse, contains that which melts the soul].
7 ذَابَتِ الشَّمْسُ [and (as is shown by a phrase mentioned in the L in art. صخد)] The sun became intensely hot.
8 أَذُوبُ اللَّيَالِى أَوْيُجِيبُ صَدَاكُمَا occurring in a trad. of Kuss, means I will wait in expectation during the lapse of the nights [or the echo of you two shall answer]; from الإِذَابَةُ, which signifies “ spoil, booty, or plunder. ”
9 مَا ذَابَ فِى يَدِى شَىْءٌ There remained not in my hand anything. And مَا ذَابَ فِى يَدَيْهِ مِنْهُ خَيْرٌ, or فِى يَدِى, There came not [into his hands, or into my hands, from him, or it, any good].
10 ذاب عَلَيْهِ المَالُ The property became, or proved to be, binding, obligatory, or incumbent, on him to render as a debt. And ذاب لِى عَلَيْهِ حَقٌّ A right, or due, was, or became, incumbent, or obligatory, on him to render to me, and established against him. And ذاب عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الأَمْرِ كَذَا, Verbal.Noun ذَوْبٌ, Such a part of the thing, or affair, was, or became, incumbent, or obligatory, on him; like جَمَدَ and بَرَدَ.

def.2 ذاب also signifies He continued in the eating of ذَوْب i. e. honey.

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