مُذَبِّبٌ

Root: ذب

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مُذَبِّبٌ A rider hastening, or making haste, apart from others: or striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself, in going, or journeying, so as to leave not a ذُبَابَة [or any part of his journey remaining unaccomplished]. And it is also applied to a [wild] bull. In the following saying, مَسِيرَةٌشَهْرٍ لِلْبَعِيرِ [A month's journey to the hastening camel], or لِلْبَرِيدِ المُذَبْذِبِ [to the hastening messenger], by المذبذب is meant المُذَبِّب.
2 [ A quick journey: or one in which is no flagging, or langour.] You say, لَا يَنَالُونَ المَآءِ إِلَّا بِقَرَبٍ مُذَبِّبٍ, i. e. [They will not reach the water but by a] quick [night-journey thereto]. And خِمْسٌ مُذَبِّبٌ [A journey in which the camels are watered only on the first and fifth days] in which is no flagging, or langour.
3 ظِمْءٌ مُذَبِّبٌ [An interval between two water-ings] of long duration, in which one journeys from afar and with haste.

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