جَادِبٌ
Root: جدب
Full Definition
meaning [O thou smooth and even cheek, and gentle speech, and make] whereof he who dispraises it occupies himself vainly, finding no defect in it.فَيَا لَكَ مِنْ خَدٍّ أَسِيلٍ و مَنْطِقٍ رَخِيمٍ وَمِنْ خَلْقٍ تَعَلَّلَ جَادِبُهْ
2 It is also said [as in the K &c.] to signify Lying; and the author of the 'Eyn says that it has no verb belonging to it [in this sense]; but this is a mistranscription [for خَادِبٌ]: AZ says that جَادِبٌ, with ج, has the signification here first given.
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