طَرِبٌ
Root: طرب
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طَرِبٌ
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طَرَب [i. e. emotion, or a lively emotion, &c.]: pl. طِرَابٌ. A Hudhalee says,
2 إِبِلٌ طِرَابٌ means Camels yearning for their accustomed places of abode: or they are so termed when they are excited (إِذَا طَرِبَتْ) by reason of their drivers' urging them with singing.
def.2 Also The head [meaning the hair of the head]: so called because of the sound that it makes when it is twisted with fingers: occurring in the phrase حَتَّى يَرْنَأَ الطَّرِبَ [That he may dye the hair of the head with يُرَنَّأ, i. e. حِنَّآء].
[They passed the night joyful, or glad, and he passed the night without sleeping]: meaning that the [wild] bulls or cows, thirsting, passed the night joyful on account of the lightning that they saw, and the water for which they hoped in consequence thereof. See also another ex. in the verse cited voce طَرَبٌ.بَاتَتْ طِرَابًا وَبَاتَ اللَّيْلَ لَمْ يَنَمِ
2 إِبِلٌ طِرَابٌ means Camels yearning for their accustomed places of abode: or they are so termed when they are excited (إِذَا طَرِبَتْ) by reason of their drivers' urging them with singing.
def.2 Also The head [meaning the hair of the head]: so called because of the sound that it makes when it is twisted with fingers: occurring in the phrase حَتَّى يَرْنَأَ الطَّرِبَ [That he may dye the hair of the head with يُرَنَّأ, i. e. حِنَّآء].
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