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مُذَنِّبٌ

Root: ذنب

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مُذَنِّبٌ [app. applied to a she-camel, accord. to the K, or perhaps to a lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, as seems to be indicated in the TA,] Finding difficulty in parturition, and therefore stretching out her tail: [but accord. to Az,] it is applied to a ضَبّ only when he is striking with his tail a hunter or a serpent desiring to catch him. See also مِذْنَبٌ.
2 See also 2, in two places.
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