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جَابٍ

Root: جبو

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جَابٍ A collector of water for camels: belonging to arts. جبو and جبى.
2 The locust that collects everything by eating it; as also جَابِىءٌ [q. v.]. The Arabs say, إِذَا جَآءَتِ السَّنَةُ جَآءَ مَعَهَا الجَابِى وَالجَانِى, i. e. [When the year of drought comes,] the locust and the wolf [come with it].
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