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جنّبهُ

Root: جنب

Form: 2

Full Definition

جنّبهُII : see 1:
2 and see also 3.

def.2 جنبّ, Verbal.Noun تَجْنِيبٌ, He did not send the stallion-camel among his she-camels, nor the ram or he-goat among his ewes or she-goats.
2 جنّب القَوْمُ The milk of the people's camels became little: or the people's milk ceased; or became little: or the people's camels had no milk: and جنّب said of a man, his camels had no milk, nor had his sheep or goats. Hence, عَامُ تَجْنِيبٍ [A year of little, or no, milk].
3 جنّبت الأِبِلُ The camels, with the exception of one or two, brought forth no young. The camels did not conceive, so as to have milk.

def.3 تَجْنِيبٌ [as an Verbal.Noun of which the verb, if it have one in any of the following senses, is جُنِّبَ,] also signifies A bending, or curving, and tension [of the sinews] (تَوْتِيرٌ), of the hind leg of a horse; which is a quality approved: or, accord. to AO, a turning aside of his fore legs in raising them and putting them down: but accord. to As, it is in the kind legs, and تَحْنِيبٌ is in the back-bone and in the fore legs. [See also 2 in art حنب; and see also مُجَنَّبٌ.]
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