Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ضَبِيحٌ

Root: ضبح

Full Definition

ضَبِيحٌ An arrow altered in colour [by fire]; as also مَضْبُوحٌ . (TA. [See an ex. of the latter in a verse of Tarafeh cited voce مُجْمِدٌ: and see also what here next precedes.]) It is also applied, in the same sense, to roasted flesh-meat. [And Freytag explains it as meaning, in the Deewan of Jereer, “ Cutis nigra, usta vulneribus. ”]


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