مُذَبْذَبٌ
Root: ذب
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مُذَبْذَبٌ
Driven away: or driven away, or repelled, much. It is said in a trad., تَزَوَّجْ وَإِلَّا فَأَنْتَ مِنَ المُذَبْذَبِينَ, i. e. [Marry, or thou wilt be of] those driven away from the believers because thou hast not imitated them, and from the monks because thou hast forsaken their institutes: from الذَّبُّ “ the act of driving away: ” or, accord. to IAth, it may be from the signification of “ motion and agitation. ” And it is said in the Kur [iv. 142], مُذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ
ذٰلِكَ, meaning Much driven away, or much repelled, from these and from those: or this is an ex. of the meaning next following.
2 A man wavering, or vacillating, between two things, or affairs; or between two men, not attaching himself steadily to either; and مُذَبْذِبٌ signifies the same; as also مُتَذَبْذِبٌ .
2 A man wavering, or vacillating, between two things, or affairs; or between two men, not attaching himself steadily to either; and مُذَبْذِبٌ signifies the same; as also مُتَذَبْذِبٌ .
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