ذَبِيحٌ
Root: ذبح
Full Definition
2 Both are [also] applied to an animal, or a sheep or goat, [or an animal of the ox-kind, and a sheep or goat, and the like, ] as meaning Slaughtered, in the manner described in the first paragraph of this art.: the fem. of ذَبِيحٌ is with ة: (S, TA: [see ذَبِيحَةٌ below:]) but ذَبِيحٌ is used as a fem. epithet without the addition of ة: you say شَاةٌ ذَبِيحٌ as well as كَبْشٌ ذَبِيحٌ, because ذَبِيحٌ is an instance of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; though you say شاة ذَبِيحَةٌ also; and in like manner نَاقَةٌ: the pl. [of ذَبِيحٌ] is ذَبْحَى and ذَبَاحَى and [that of ذَبِيحَةٌ is] ذَبَائِحُ. Aboo-Dhu-eyb says, describing wine,
meaning المَذْبُوحُ عَنْهُ, i. e. [One would call it the blood of the external jugular vein,] for which it had been slit [to let it flow]. And again he says,يُقَالُ لَهَا دَمُ الوَدَجِ الذَّبِيحُ
[app. meaning And many a bevy of women rubbed over with perfume compounded with saffron, as though it were the blood of gazelles, the gazelles whereof had been slaughtered in the upper parts of the breasts]: he applies ذبيح as an epithet to دمآء, meaning ذَبِيحٌ ظِبَاؤُهُ; and he applies it as an epithet to a pl. n. because it is of the measure فَعِيلٌ [in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ], for such an epithet is applicable to masc. and fem. and sing. and pl. nouns.وَسِرْبٍ تَطَلَّى بِالعَبِيرِ كَأَنَّهُ دِمَآءُ ظِبَآءُ بِالنُّحُورِ ذَبِيحُ
3 ذَبِيحٌ also signifies An animal that is fit, or proper, to be slaughtered as a sacrifice: [or that is destined, or prepared, for sacrifice; i. e., an intended victim; like ذِبْحٌ; as appears from the fact that] الذَّبِيحُ is
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