ذَبٌّ
Root: ذب
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ذَبٌّ
Repelling: fem. with ة: hence ذَبَّاتُ
السَّبِيبِ, a phrase used by Dhu-r-Rummeh, meaning repelling with their tails: or this may be from the signification next following.
def.2 Much in motion. ذَبٌّ, or ذَابٌّ , [the former correct, and perhaps the latter also,] applied to a camel, That does not, or will not, remain still, or motionless, in a place. A poet says,
2 الذَّبُّ
3 ذَبُّ الرِّيَادِ is also applied to
def.2 Much in motion. ذَبٌّ, or ذَابٌّ , [the former correct, and perhaps the latter also,] applied to a camel, That does not, or will not, remain still, or motionless, in a place. A poet says,
[And it was as though we were, among them, camels that would not remain still in a place]: which shows that ذَبٌّ is not an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet; for, were it so, he had said جِمَالٌ ذَبٌّ.فَكَأَنَّنَا فِيهِمْ جِمَالٌ ذَبَّةٌ
2 الذَّبُّ
3 ذَبُّ الرِّيَادِ is also applied to
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