سَبَنْتًى

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سَبَنْتًى , as also سَبَنْدًى, Bold, or daring; as an epithet applied to anything [i. e. man or brute]: the ى is added to render it quasi-coordinate to the class of quinqueliteral-radical words, not to denote the fem. gender, for it receives ة as a termination [to denote the fem.], becoming سَبَنْتَاةٌ; and has tenween. A poet applies the fem. epithet to a she-camel.
2 Also The leopard; so too with ة; (AHeyth, L in art. سبد;) and so سَبَنْدًى: probably thus called because of his boldness, or daringness: or, as some ay, the lion: fem. with ة: or the fem, signifies a bold, or daring, lioness: or a she-camel of bold, or daring, breast; but this last is not of valid authority: and a beast of prey [absolutely]: (L in art. سيد:) pl. سَبَانِتُ; and some of the Arabs make سَبَاتِى [or rather سَبَاتٍ] to be its pl.
3 The fem. also, applied to a woman, signifies Sharp in tongue; or clamorous; or clamorous and foul-tongued; or long-tongued and vehemently clamorous.

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