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ازغب

Root: زغب

Form: 4

Full Definition

ازغبIV , said of a grape-vine, i. e., app., accord. to [J and] F, like أَكْرَمَ, but accord. to others of the leading lexicologists it seems to be [ ,] like اِحْمَرَّ; as also ازغابّ ; It produced what resembled زَغَب [or down], at the knots of the shoots, whence the bunches of grapes would grow: this it does when the sap flows in it, and it begins to produce leaves.
2 A'Obeyd, in applying to the truffles termed بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ the epithet مزغبة, [written in art. وبر in copies of the K مُزْغِبَةٌ , and in the T and S and M , but in the present art. in the TA it seems to be indicated that it is probably ,] signifying having زَغَب [i. e. down], assigns to it a verb [which may be أَزْغَبَتْ or or , meaning They had, or produced, a kind of downy substance].
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