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مِذَبَّةٌ

Root: ذب

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مِذَبَّةٌ A thing with which one drives away flies; a fly-whisk made of horse-hairs: [pl. مَذَابٌ whence,] one says of wild-animals, أَذْنَابُهَا مَذَابُّهَا [Their tails are their fly-whisks].
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