طَبِيبٌ
Root: طب
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طَبِيبٌ
and
طَبٌّ [A physician;] one skilled in
الطِّبّ [i. e. medical, therapeutical, or curative, treatment]; or one who practises medical, therapeutical, or curative, treatment; and
مُتَطَبِّبٌ signifies [likewise one who practises physic: and a professor of physic: or] one who applies himself to the science of physic: or one who applies himself to that science but does not know it well: it has been said that the طَبِيب is so called from the same epithet as signifying “ skilful, or expert; ” but this is not a valid assertion: the pl. is أَطِبَّةٌ and أَطِبَّآءُ.
2 The first of these words (طبيب) occurs in a trad. as meaning
2 The first of these words (طبيب) occurs in a trad. as meaning
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