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جَنَبَهُ

Root: جنب

Form: 1

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جَنَبَهُI He broke his side: or he hit, or hurt, his side. [The Present.T of the verb in this sense is probably ـُ and the Verbal.Noun, accord. to the TK, is جَنْبٌ.]
2 He led him by his side; namely, a horse or the like, and a captive. In this sense, its Present.T is ـُ and the Verbal.Noun جَنَبٌ and مَجْنَبٌ. Hence, طَوْعُ الجَنَبِ: see جَنَبٌ .جِنَابٌ which is forbidden in a trad., [in which it is said, لَا جَلَبَ وَلَا جَنَبَ] relating to horse-racing and to [the collecting of] the poor-rate, means [in the former case] A man's leading, by the side of a horse that he rides in a race, another horse, without a rider, and when the horse that he rides has become languid and weak, or when he fears that he will not outstrip upon it, or when he draws near to the goal, transferring himself to the other, in order that he may outstrip: and in relation to the poorrate, it means the collector's alighting in the most remote of the places whence the portion appointed for the poor-rate is to be collected, and then ordering that the camels or the like [that constitute that portion] shall be led to him: or the going of the owner of the property to a distance, [or aside, or out of the way,] with his property, so that the collector is obliged to go to a distance in quest of it. (K. See more in art. جلب, first paragraph.)
3 He placed, or put, at a distance, or he put, or sent, away, or far away, or far off, or he removed far away, alienated, or estranged, him, or it; as though he put him, or it, aside, or as though he walked aside; as also جانبهُ And He pushed, thrust, or drove, him, or it, away, aside, or to a distance. And جَنَبَهُ الشَّىْءَ or الشَّرَّ Present.T ـُ; and جنّبهُ , but this has an intensive signification; and اجنبهُ ; He put aside, or away, or he warded off, from him, or he removed from him, or removed far from him, the thing, or evil. It is said in the Kur [xiv. 38], وَٱجْنُبْنِى وَبَنِىَّ أَنْ نَعْبُدَ الأَصْنَامَ [And put Thou away from me and my sons our worshipping of idols], or, accord. to one reading, .
4 He yearned towards, longed for, or desired, him, or it.

def.2 جَنَبَ بِهِ, Present.T ـُ [He went aside, apart, out of the way, to a distance, or far away, with him, or it: or, like جَنَبَهُ, in a sense explained above,] he placed, or put, at a distance, or he put, or sent, away, or far away, or far off, him, or it.
2 جَنَبَ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun جَنَابَةٌ; and تجنّب ; He alighted, or descended and abode, or settled, as a stranger, among the sons of such a one. One says, نِعْمَ القَوْمُ هُمْ لِجَارِ الجَنَابَةِ [Excellent are the people, they,] to the neighbour who is a stranger. (S. [See also جُنُبٌ.]) And لَا تَحْرِمَنِّى عَنْ جَنَابَةٍ Do not thou by any means refuse me because of being remote in respect of relationship. [See also جَنَابَةٌ mentioned below as a subst.]
3 جَنَبَتِ الرِّيحُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun جُنُوبٌ; and ; The wind was, or became, such as is termed جَنُوب [i. e. south, or southerly]; it blew in the direction of the wind thus called: or the former, or جَنِبَت, the wind changed, or veered, so as to become جَنُوب
4 [And hence, (see جَنُوبٌ,)] جَنَبَ إِلَيْهِ, or إِلَى لِقَائِهِ, Present.T ـُ; and جَنِبَ, Present.T ـَ; [Verbal.Noun, app., جَنْبٌ, for the verb is said in the K to be like نَصَرَ and سَمِعَ;] He was, or became, disquieted by vehement desire to see him, or to meet him.

def.3 جَنِبَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun جَنَبٌ, He limped, or halted, by reason of [pain in] his side: or he had an affection resembling ظَلْع [i. e. limping, or halting], but not the same as this: and, or accord. to As, his lungs clave to his side by reason of vehement thirst: or, accord. to the Arabs of the desert, as ISk says, he became bent, or contorted, by reason of vehemence of thirst: and he had a pain in his side from vehemence of thirst. The epithet is جَنِبٌ ; which is applied by Dhu-r-Rummeh to an ass.
2 جنبت الدَّلْوُ [app. جَنِبَت] The bucket inclined to one side in consequence of the breaking of one or two of the thongs attacking it to the cross-bars.

def.4 جَنِبَ and جَنُبَ and جَنَبَ are syn. with أَجْنَبَ in a sense explained below: see 4.

def.5 جُنِبَ He had, or became affected by, the disease termed ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ [or pleurisy]: he had a complaint of his side.

def.6 جُنِبُوا They were, or became, affected by the [south, or southerly, wind called] جُنُوب. And also, [in allusion to the fertilizing effect attributed to the wind so called,] They were, or became, affected by that wind in their cattle.
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