تذآءب

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تذآءبVI and تذأّب لَهَا He disguised himself like a wolf to the she-camel, and, by so frightening her, made her to incline to, or affect, her young one: or he cloaked, or disguised, himself to the she-camel, making himself to seem like a wolf, in order to cause her to affect a young one that was not her own [by moving her with pity by the supposed danger of the latter].
2 See also 1, in two places.

def.2 تذآءب شَيْئًا and تذأّبهُ He did a thing by turns; syn. تَدَاوَلَهُ: (M, K, TA: [in the CK, erroneously, تَناوَلَهُ:]) from الذِّئْبُ [the wolf], which, when guarded against from one direction, comes from another direction.

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