غَارِبٌ

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غَارِبٌ [The western side of a mountain &c.]. You say, هٰذَا غَارِبُ الجَبَلِ and [This is the western side of the mountain], and [in the opposite sense] هذا شَارِقُ الجَبَلِ and شَرْقِيُّهُ. (TA in art. شرق.)

def.2 Also The كَاهِل [or withers], of the camel; or the part between the hump and the neck; upon which the leading-rope is thrown when the camel is sent to pasture where he will: pl. غَوَارِبُ.
2 Hence the saying, حَبْلُكِ عَلَى غَارِبِكِ [Thy rope is upon thy withers]; used by the Arabs in the Time of Ignorance in divorcing; meaning I have left thy way free, or open, to thee; go whithersoever thou wilt: originating from the fact of throwing a she-camel's leading-rope upon her withers, if it is upon her, when she pastures; for when she sees the leading-rope, nothing is productive of enjoyment to her.
3 الغَارِبَانِ signifies The fore and kind parts of the back [and of the hump]: and بَعِيرٌ ذُو غَارِبَيْنِ, A camel whereof the part between the غاربان [or fore and kind parts] of the hump is cleft; which is mostly the case in the بَخَاتِىّ, whose sire is the فَالِج [or large twohumped camel of Es-Sind] and his dam Arabian.
4 And غَارِبٌ signifies also The fore part of the hump: thus in the following saying, in a trad. of Ez-Zubeyr: فَمَا زَالَ يَفْتِلُ فِى الذِّرْوَةِ وَالغَارِبِ حَتَّى أَجَابَتْهُ عَائِشَةُ إِلَى الخُرُوجِ i. e. [And he ceased not to twist the fur of] the upper part and the fore part of the hump [until 'Áïsheh gave him her consent to go forth]; meaning, he ceased not to practise guile with her, and to wheedle her, until she gave hun her consent: originating from the fact that, when a man desires to render a refractory camel tractable, and to attach to him the nose-rein, he passes his hand over him, and strokes his غارب, and twists its fur, until he has become familiar: or غَارِبٌ signifies the upper portion of the fore part of the hump.
5 Also The upper part of a wave: غَوَارِبُ المَآءِ means the higher parts of the waves of water; likened to the غوارب of camels: or the higher parts of water.
6 And The highest part of anything.

def.3 See also غُرَابٌ, first quarter.

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