جَرْدَبَانٌ

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جَرْدَبَانٌ , an arabicized word, from the Persian, originally گِرْدَهْ بَانْ “guardian of the cake of bread,” and جُرْدُبَانٌ and جَرْدَبِىٌّ and مُجَرْدِبٌ , One who puts his hand, or who puts his left hand, upon food, or upon a thing that is before him on the table, in order that no other person may take it: or who eats with his right hand, and prevents [others from eating] with his left hand: and one who eats greedily, gluttonously, or voraciously: or the first and ↓ third signify, or signify also, a spunger; because of his greediness, gluttony, or voraciousness, and his boldness. A poet says, (namely, ElGhanawee, TA voce جَرْدَبِيلٌ,) إِذَا مَا كُنْتَ فِى قَوْمٍ شَهَاوَى فَلَا تَجْعَلْ شِمَالَكَ جَرْدَبَانَا [When thou art among a greedy company of men, put not thy left hand upon the food as a جردبان]: or the last word is جَرْدَبِيلَا, meaning, (accord. to Sh, as also جَرْدَبَان, TA voce جردبيل,) one that takes a fragment [of food] with his left hand, and eats with his right hand, and, when what the party have is consumed, eats what is in his left hand.

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