زَرْنَبٌ
Root: زرنب
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زَرْنَبٌ
A certain perfume: or certain sweetsmelling trees: or a species of sweet-smelling plant: it consists of slender round twigs, between [مَا بَيْنَ, misprinted ملين,] the thickness of the large needle and the thickness of writingreeds, black inclining to yellowness, not having much taste nor odour, its little odour being of a fragrant kind like that of the citron: [Freytag says, as on the authority of the K, but he seems to have taken it from the TK, that, “ accord. to some, it signifies the leaves of a sweet-smelling plant, which has the name of
رجل الجراد, locusts' foot: ” and he adds, as though on the authority of Ibn-Seenà ubi suprá, “ salix Aegyptiaca: ” referring also to Sprengel, Hist. rei. herb., t. i. p. 270:] also saffron: it is of the measure فَعْلَلٌ; and is a genuine Arabic word, though asserted by Ibn-El-Kutbee to be arabicized. A rájiz says,
2 Also The [dung such as is termed] بَعْر of wild animals.
def.2 Also, [and, as appears from what follows, زَرْنَبَةٌ likewise, if this be not a mistranscription,] The vulva of a woman: or such as is large: or the external portion thereof: or a piece of flesh within the زروان [a mistranscription for زَرَدَان, a name for the vulva], behind the كَيْنَة [or كَيْن, q. v.]: behind the is another piece of flesh: so says IAar.
[O, with my father thou shouldst be ransomed, and thy mouth that is cool and sweet, as though زَرْنَب were sprinkled upon it]. In the trad. of Umm-Zara, where it is said, المَسُّ مَسُّ أَرْنَبٍ وَالرِّيحُ رِيحُ زَرْنَبٍ [The feel is the feel of a hare, and the odour is the odour of زَرْنَب], IAth says that it signifies saffron; and she may mean the sweetness of his odour, or the perfume of his garments among the people.يَا بِأَبِى أَنْتِ وَفُوكِ الأَشْنَبُ كَأَنَّمَا ذُرَّ عَلَيْهِ الزَّرْنَبُ
2 Also The [dung such as is termed] بَعْر of wild animals.
def.2 Also, [and, as appears from what follows, زَرْنَبَةٌ likewise, if this be not a mistranscription,] The vulva of a woman: or such as is large: or the external portion thereof: or a piece of flesh within the زروان [a mistranscription for زَرَدَان, a name for the vulva], behind the كَيْنَة [or كَيْن, q. v.]: behind the is another piece of flesh: so says IAar.
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