صَرْبَى
Root: صرب
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صَرْبَى
, accord. to Sa'eed Ibn-El-Museiyib, The [she-camel called] بَحِيرَة, whose milk was forbidden [by the pagan Arabs] for the sake of the idols (الطَّوَاغِيت), no man milking her [for himself]: thus called, it is said, because they used not to milk her save for the guest, so that her milk became collected [and retained] in her udder: Kt says, it is from صَرَبْتُ اللَّبَنَ فِى الضَّرْعِ [expl. above]; or, as some say, from [الصَّرْبُ as signifying] “ the act of cutting, ” or “ cutting off; ” and this seems to be the more correct of the two explanations: accord. to IAar, it signifies a she-camel having the ear slit, like the بَحِيرَة, or cut off: and its pl., he says, is صُرْبٌ.
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