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مَضَبَّةٌ

Root: ضب

Full Definition

مَضَبَّةٌ A piece of land abounding with [the lizards called] ضِبَاب [pl. of ضَبٌّ]: pl. مَضَابُّ: you say, وَقَعْنَا فِى مَضَابَّ [We found ourselves in pieces of land abounding with ضِبَاب]. And أَرْضٌ مَضَبَّةٌ, or , and , the last being one of those [reduplicative] words that preserve the original form, A land abounding with ضِبَاب.

def.2 See also ضَبٌّ, [of which it is a quasi-pl. n.,] in the former half of the paragraph.


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