جَبًا
Root: جبو
Full Definition
[Slowly I satisfied their thirst; not hastily: and by going in advance of them a day, and collecting for them water in the trough, and bringing them to it on the morrow, I satisfied their thirst; not by pouring the water into the trough while they were drinking, without having prepared any for them beforehand].بِالرَّيْثِ مَا أَرْوَيْتُهَا لَا بِالعَجَلْ وَبِالجَبَا أَرْوَيْتُهَا لَا بِالقَبَلْ
def.2 Also the former, Water collected [in a trough]; and so جُبْوَةٌ , with damm. (TA. [See جِبًا.])
2 A wateringtrough in which water is collected: or the station of the drawer of water, upon the [upper part of the] casing.
3 The place where a well is dug: in this sense, and in the next, also written جَبًى
4 The brink, or margin, of a well. The earth that is around a well, that is seen from afar; originally جَبَأٌ: what is around a well: and what is around a wateringtrough: pl. أَجْبَآءٌ.
def.3 جَبَا meaning A gift without compensation is a vulgar word.
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