ذُبَحَ

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ذُبَحَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun ذَبْحٌ and ذُبَاحٌ, He cut, or divided, lengthwise; clave; split; slit; rent, or rent open; ripped, or ripped open. [Accord. to Fei,] this is the primary signification. [But see what follows.] You say, ذَبَحَ فَأْرَةَ المِسْكَ He ripped open the follicle, or vesicle, of mush, and took forth the mush that was in it. [In the A and TA this is said to be tropical; the authors evidently holding it to be from ذَبَحَ in the sense here next following.]
2 He slaughtered [for food, or sacrificed,] and animal, or a sheep or goat, or an ox or a cow, and a sheep or goat, and the like, [in the manner prescribed by the law, i. e.,] by cutting the وَدَجَانِ [or two external jugular veins], or by cutting the throat, from beneath, at the part next the head: accord. to the K, i. q. نَحَرَ: but correctly, الذَّبْحُ is in the throat; and النَّحْرُ is in the pit above the breast, between the collar-bones, where camels are stabbed: the latter word is used in relation to camels and bulls and cows; and the former, in relation to other animals: or, not improbably, both may have originally signified the causing the soul to depart by wounding the throat, or the pit above the breast, which is the stabbing-place in the camel; and may then have been applied in peculiar [and different] senses by the lawyers. (MF. [See also ذَكَاةٌ, in art. ذكو.]) Also He slaughtered, or slew, in any manner. [You say, ذَبَحَ عَنْهُ He slaughtered, or sacrificed, for him, by way of expiation.] And ذَبَحَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا [They slaughtered, or slew, one another]. And أَخَذَهُمْ بَنُو فُلَانٍ بِالذُّبَاحِ The sons of such a one slaughtered, or slew, them. And ذبّح (Verbal.Noun تَذْبِيحٌ, KL) signifies the same as ذَبَحَ, except that it applies [only] to many objects; whereas the latter applies to few and to many: thus it is said in the Kur [ii. 46, and in like manner in xiv. 6], يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ [They slaughtering, or slaying, your sons], accord. to the reading commonly obtaining.
3 Hence, He killed; because الذَّبْحُ [in its proper sense, when the object is an animal,] is one of the quickest modes of killing. It is said in a trad., cautioning against accepting the office of a Kádee, مَنْ جُعِلَ قَاضِيًا بَيْنَ النَّاسِ فَكَأَنَّمَا ذُبِحَ بِغَيْرِ سِكِّينٍ [Whoso is made a Kádee among the people, he is as though he were slaughtered without a knife]: expl. by some as meaning, he is as though he were killed [&c.].
4 [Hence, also, because الذَّبْحُ renders the flesh of an animal allowable, or lawful, as food,] It rendered allowable, or lawful: as salt and the sun and the fishes called نِينَان (pl. of نُونٌ) do wine, by changing its quality, as is said in a trad.
5 Also He broached, or pierced, a دَنّ [or wine-jar, making a hole in the mouth, or removing the clay that closed the mouth], so as to draw forth the contents.
6 And He, or it, choked. You say, ذَبَحَتْهُ العَبْرَةُ Weeping choked him.
7 And, said of thirst, It affected him severely, or distressed him.
8 ذَبَحَتِ اللِّحْيَةُ فُلَانًا The beard flowed down beneath the chin of such a one so that the anterior portion of the part beneath his lower jaw was apparent: in which case, the man is said to be مَذْبُوحٌ بِلِحْيَتِهِ.

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