جِرْبِيَآءُ

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جِرْبِيَآءُ [a word of a very rare form, (see كِبْرِيَآءُ,)] The north-west wind; a wind of the kind termed نَكْبَآءُ, that blows in a direction between that of the [north wind, or northerly wind, called] شَمَال and that of the [west wind, or westerly wind, called] دَبُور, and that dispels the clouds: it is a cold wind, and is sometimes attended by a little rain: (TA in art. نكب, q. v.:) or the [north wind, or northerly wind, called] شمال: or the cold of that wind: or, as also أَزْيَبُ, the south east wind; the wind that blows in a direction between that of the [south wind, or southerly wind, called] جَنُوب and that of the [east wind, or easterly wind, called] صَبَا.
2 Also, with the article ال, a name of The seventh earth: corresponding to العِرْبِيَآءُ, a name of “the seventh heaven.”

def.2 Also A weak man.

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