ظُنْبُوبٌ
Root: ظنب
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ظُنْبُوبٌ
The edge of the shin: or the tough edge of the shin: or the external part of the shank: or the shin-bone: or the edge of the shin-bone: or the tough bone in the fore part of the shank: but accord. to AZ, this term is not used in relation to animals that have أَوْظِفَة: [see وَظِيفٌ:] pl. ظَنَابِيبُ. عَارِى الظَّنَابِيبِ
Without flesh upon the shins is an epithet applied to a male ostrich. قَرَعَ ظُنْبُوبَ البَعِيرِ means He knocked, or struck, the shin of the camel, that he might lie down, and he might mount him: or قَرْعُ الظُّنْبُوبِ signifies a man's knocking, or striking, the shin of his camel with his stick when he makes him lie down that he may mount him, as one in haste to betake himself to a thing: or striking the shin of his beast with his whip, [in the TA is here added ليترقه, which I can only suppose to be put for لِيُبْرِكَهُ, to make him lie down,] when he desires to mount him. [See an ex. voce عُرْقُوبٌ. Hence,] قَرَعَ
فُلَانٌ لِأَمْرِهِ ظُنْبُوبَهُ
2 ظُنْبُوبٌ also signifies A nail that is in the جُبَّة of a spear-head, [i. e., in the part into which the shaft enters,] where it is fixed upon the upper extremity of the shaft: and ظَنَابِيب has been said to be the pl. of the word in this sense in the verse of Selámeh cited above.
[We were , when there came to us one crying aloud, in terror, the clamour to him was the striking of the shins;] by which he is said to mean that a quick reply was given; calling the striking of the whip upon the leg of the boot, in urging on the horse, “ the striking of the shin. ” You also say, قَرَعَ لِذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ ظُنْبُوبَهُ meaningكُنَّا إِذَا مَا أَتَانَا صَارِخٌ فَزِعٌ كَانَ الصُّرَاخُ لَهُ قَرْعَ الظَّنَابِيبِ
قَرَعْتُ ظَنَابِيبَ الْهَوَى يَوْمَ عَالِجٍ
2 ظُنْبُوبٌ also signifies A nail that is in the جُبَّة of a spear-head, [i. e., in the part into which the shaft enters,] where it is fixed upon the upper extremity of the shaft: and ظَنَابِيب has been said to be the pl. of the word in this sense in the verse of Selámeh cited above.
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