ذَابِحٌ

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ذَابِحٌ [act. part. n. of 1]. سَعْدُ الذَّابِحِ, or سَعْدٌ الذَّابِحُ, Two bright stars, between which is the space of a cubit (ذِرَاع), over against one of which (فِىنَحْرِ وَاحِدٍ مِنْهُمَا) is a small star that, by reason of its nearness, is as though it [app. meaning the bright star, or the pair of bright stars,] were about to slaughter it; whence the appellation of الذَّابِح: the two stars [alpha and beta] which are in one of the horns of Capricornus; so called because of the small adjacent star, which is said to be the sheep or goat (شاة) of الذابح, which he is about to slaughter: it is one of the Mansions of the Moon; [namely, the Twenty-second Mansion: see also art. سعد: some give this appellation to the Twenty-third Mansion: and some, to the Twenty-fifth; but the two stars above mentioned are clearly the Twenty-second, with the place of which they agree accord. to those who make النَّوءُ to signify “ the auroral rising ” and those who make it to signify “ the auroral setting: ” see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل.] The Arabs [used to] say, إِذَا طَلَعَ الذَّابِحُ ٱنْجَحَرَ النَّابِحُ [When الذابح rises aurorally, the barker enters, or betakes itself to, its hole: the period of its auroral rising, in Central Arabia, about the commencement of the era of the Flight, being the 16th of January, O. S.].
2 A mark made with a hot iron across the throat: or the instrument with which it is made.
3 Hair growing between the part immediately beneath the lower jaw and the part [of the throat] in which an animal is slaughtered.

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