ذِبْحٌ
Root: ذبح
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ذِبْحٌ
An animal prepared for slaughter [or sacrifice; i. e. an intended victim]: [see also ذَبِيحٌ, which occurs in this sense in a trad. as applied to a human being:] or an animal that is slaughtered [or sacrificed]; and so
ذَبِيحَةٌ ; or this signifies a slaughtered [or sacrificed] sheep or goat; and is [nominally] fem. of ذَبِيحٌ, but the ة is affixed only because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it: or the ذَبِيحٌ is added to denote that the word is applied to a sheep, or goat, [to be slaughtered or sacrificed,] not yet slaughtered [or sacrificed]; and when the act has been executed upon it, it is [said to be] ذَبِيحٌ: (M, voce رَمِيَّةٌ:) ذِبْحٌ is applied to an animal that is slaughtered either as a sacrifice on the occasion of the pilgrimage or otherwise; and is like طِحْنٌ in the sense of مَطْحُونٌ, and عِطْفٌ in the sense of مَعْطُوفٌ, &c.: the pl. of
ذَبِيحَةٌ is ذَبَائِحُ. It is said in the Kur [xxxvii. 107], وَفَدَيْنَاهُ بِدِبْحٍ عَظِيمٍ [And we ransomed him with a great victim]. الجِنِّ means Animals sacrificed to the Jinn, or Genii: for it was customary for a man, when he bought a house, or drew forth [for the first time] the water of a spring, and the like, to sacrifice an animal to the Jinn with the view of avoiding ill luck, lest some disagreeable accident should happen to him from the Jinn thereof: and the doing this is forbidden.
def.2 See also ذُبَحَةٌ.
def.2 See also ذُبَحَةٌ.
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