زِبَالٌ
Root: زبل
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زِبَالٌ
A thing that the ant will carry in its mouth: (S, K, TA: [in some of the copies of the K, in the place of النَّمْلَةُ is put النَّحْلَةُ, which, as is said in the TA, is a mistake:]) or as much as the gnat will carry. (TA in art. رزأ.) Hence the saying, مَا أَصَابَ مِنْ فُلَانٍ زِبَالًا and
He obtained not from such a one anything. And مَا رَزَأْتُهُ زِبَالًا
I did not take from him, or it, anything: and
مَا رَزَأْتُهُ means the same: and in like manner, مَا أَغْنَى عَنْهُ [He, or it, did not stand him in stead of anything; or profit him at all]. Hence also a saying of Ibn-Mukbil cited in art. رزأ, conj. 8. [See also زُبَالَةٌ.]
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