زَاعِبِىٌّ

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زَاعِبِىٌّ , and رِمَاحٌ زَاعِبِيَّةٌ, A spear, and spears, so called in relation to a certain man named Zá'ib (زَاعِبٌ), of El-Khazraj, who made spear-heads: so says Mbr: or the spears thus termed are such as quiver much (عَسَّالَةٌ), which, when shaken, have a motion like the torrent termed زَاعِبٌ, of which one portion impels another: the ى being that of the rel. n.; to give intensiveness to the signification, as in أَحْمَرِىٌّ: or such that, when they are shaken, their كُعُوب [i. e. knots, or joints, or their internodal portions,] are as though they ran one into another, by reason of its pliancy: so says As: and this meaning is tropical; for it is from the phrase مَرَّ يَزْعَبُ بِحِمْلِهِ meaning “ he went along [impelled by his load, or] easily with his load: ” accord. to another explanation, زاعبىّ applied to a spear means such that, when it is shaken, the whole of it is [in appearance] impelled in its several parts by the impetus of one part acting upon another, as though its hind part ran into its fore part: or زَاعِبِيَّةٌ signifies spears, universally. You say also سِنَانٌ زَاعِبِىٌّ A spear-head of Zá'ib.

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