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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 A judge; being metonymically thus used, because the office of him who judges between litigants is like that of the طبيب who cures diseases of the body. [And hence, طَبِيبُ العَرَبِ: see فَقِيهُ العَرَبِ, in art. فقه.] See also طَبٌّ, in six places.
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