وَبَأٌ
Root: وبأ
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وَبَأٌ
and
وَبَآءٌ , and also without
ـُ [وَبًا,] Plague, or pestilence; syn. طَاعُونٌ: or a common, or general, [or an epidemic,] disease: or any such disease: or a quickness, and commonness, of death among men. Accord. to Ibn-En-Nefees, it is a corruption happening to the substance of the air, by reason of causes in the heavens or the earth; as stinking water, and carcases, such as are the result of bloody battles. Accord. to the hakeem Dá-ood, it is a change effected in the air by events in the higher regions, as the conjunction of beaming stars; and by events in the lower regions, as bloody battles, and the opening of graves, and the ascending of putrid exhalations; with which causes conspire the changes of the seasons and elements, and the revolutions of the universe. They mention also its signs; among which are fever, small-pox, defluxions, itch or scab, tumours, &c. What is said in the Nuzheh necessarily implies that the طاعون is one of the different kinds of وبا; as the physicians hold to be the case: but the opinion which the
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