طَاعُونٌ

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طَاعُونٌ An epidemic disease; [i. e.] plague, or pestilence, syn. وَبَأ or وَبَآء, by reason of which the air is vitiated, and by it the constitutions and the bodies are vitiated: or the kind of وَبَأ with which men are smitten by the jinn, or genii: (TA voce وَبَأٌ, q. v.:) or a mortality in consequence of وَبَأ: pl. طَوَاعِينُ: it is a tropical term from الطَّعْنُ, because the طَوَاعِين are called by them رِمَاحُ الجِنِّ [the spears of the jinn, or genii].

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