مَدِبٌّ
Root: دب
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مَدِبٌّ
and مَدَبٌّ The track, or course, of a torrent, and of ants: pl. مَدَابُّ. One says, of a sword, لَهُ أَثْرٌ كَأَنَّهُ
مَدَبُّ النَّمْلِ and مَدَابُّ الذَّرِّ [It has diversified wavy marks like the track of ants and the tracks of little ants]. The subst. is with kesr; and the Verbal.Noun, with fet-h; accord. to a rule constantly obtaining, except in some anomalous instances, when the verb is of the measure فَعَلَ or فَعِلَ, and its Present.T is of the measure يَفْعِلُ. [Here it should be observed that مَجْرًى, given as the explanation of مَدِبٌّ and مَدَبٌّ in the K, is both an Verbal.Noun and a n. of place and of time: but J clearly explains both these words as above; and F seems, in the K, to assign to them both the same signification.]
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