جَانِبٌ
Root: جنب
Full Definition
2 See also جَنَابٌ. [It often signifies The vicinage or neighbourhood of a people &c.: and a region or quarter or tract of a people or country: like ناحية.
3 The bank of a river; and any bank, or steep acclivity.
4 And A limit, bound, or boundary: see a tropical usage of its pl. (جَوَانِبُ) voce. حِنْوٌ.
5 And عَلَى جَانِبٍ means Beside, aside, or apart; and so جَانِبًا, and فِى جَانِبٍ.
6 جَانِبٌ مِنْ مَالٍ, in posi-classical writings, means A portion, and particularly a large portion, of property: and جَانِبٌ alone, in the same, a sum, and particularly a large sum, of money.
7 The latter, also, in post-classical writings, signifies, like جَنْبٌ, q. v.,
def.2 Avoided and despised.
2 [Hence, perhaps, دَعْ كَذَا جَانِبًا Let thou, or leave thou, such a thing alone: see an ex. voce أَوٌّ.]
3 See also جُنُبٌ, in four places.
4 And see مُجَنَّبٌ.
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