ظُبَةٌ
Root: ظبو
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ظُبَةٌ
The حَدّ, or طَرَف, [both of which mean the end, or extremity, but the former means also the edge,] of a sword, or of a spear-head and the like, or also of a spear-head and of an arrowhead and of a dagger and the like; or the part next to the
طَرَف [or extremity] of the sword; also called its ذُبَاب: or the ظُبَتَانِ are the parts of the two edges that are on either side of the
ذُبَاب [by which last word is here app. meant the point] of the sword: (AZ, T and TA voce ذُبَابٌ, q. v.:) [for the swords of the Arabs, in the older times, were generally straight, twoedged, and tapering to a point:] or, accord. to Aboo-Riyásh, the ظُبَة of the sword is the part that is four digits' measure below, or within, (دُونَ,) the
ذُبَاب thereof; and is the strikingplace thereof: and it is also its حَدّ; and the ظُبَة of the spear-head is likewise its حَدّ: the ة in ظُبَةٌ is a substitute for و, which is the final radical, the word being originally ظُبَوٌ: the pl. is أَظْبٍ, a pl. of pauc., and ظُبَاتٌ and ظُبَاةٌ [which is originally ظُبَوَةٌ] and ظُبُونَ and ظِبُونَ and ظُبًا or ظُبًى. In the saying of EsSemow-al Ibn-'Ádiyà,
def.2 Also A kind of مَزَاد [or leathern water-bag].
def.3 And A place of bending, or turning, of a valley; like ظَبْيَةٌ [which belongs to art. ظبى]: pl. of the former ظُبَآءٌ, a pl. of a rare form. (M in art. ظبى.)
[Our bloods flow upon the edge of the ظبات, and upon other than the edge of the ظبات they flow not], by the ظبات may be meant the swords, altogether, or the striking-places of the swords.تَسِيلُ عَلَى حَدِّ الظُّبَاتِ نُفُوسُنَا وَلَيْسَتْ عَلَى غَيْرِ الظُّبَاتِ تَسِيلُ
def.2 Also A kind of مَزَاد [or leathern water-bag].
def.3 And A place of bending, or turning, of a valley; like ظَبْيَةٌ [which belongs to art. ظبى]: pl. of the former ظُبَآءٌ, a pl. of a rare form. (M in art. ظبى.)
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