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لَازِبٌ

Root: لزب

Full Definition

لَازِبٌ Adhering, or adhesive, or cohesive, clay or mud.
2 Being, or remaining, fixed, settled, firm, or constant.
3 صَارَ الشَّىْءُ ضَرْبَةَ لَازِبٍ The thing became fixed, settled, firm, or constant, and severe: [or, a constant infliction:] or, indispensable, or necessary: i. e., the blow of a sword that sticks, or remains fixed, [in the wound]. لازب is here the same as لازم: the latter is the original word; the م being changed into ب; and is also used in this phrase: but لازب, in this in- stance, is the more chaste. En-Nábighah says, فَلَا تَحْسِبُونَ الخَيْرَ لَا شَرَّ بَعْدَهُ وَلَا تَحْسِبُونَ الشَّرَّ ضَرْبَةَ لَازِبِ [Then think ye not that good shall have no evil after it, nor think ye that evil shall be a constant infliction]. Sgh says, of the conversion of رِوَاغَةٌ into رِيَاغَةٌ, or of و into ى because of kesreh before it, هٰذَا القَلْبُ لَيْسَ بِضَرْبٍ لَازِبٍ [This conversion is not a necessary sort.] (TA in art. روغ.)
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