Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طِبٌّ ذ (S, A, O, Msb, K) and ↓ طَبٌّ and ↓ طُبٌّ (S, A, O, K,) Medical, therapeutical, or curative, treatment, (A, * O, * Msb, K, *) of the body, [i. e. the physicking thereof,] (A, K,) and likewise of the soul. (K.) ― -b2- [And Knowledge]. قَرُبَ طِبٌّ [Knowledge is near], or, as some relate it, قَرُبَ طِبًّا, (Meyd, O, K, TA,) with the noun in the accus. case, as a specificative, (TA,) like the phrase نِعْمَ رَجُلًا, (Meyd, O, TA,) is a prove.: originally said by a woman to a man who asked her an indecent question which he was himself about to resolve: (Meyd, O, K, TA:) it is like the saying, أَنْتَ عَلَى المُجَرَّبِ [q. v.]: (Meyd, TA:) and is related on the authority of Ibn-Háni. (TA.) ― -b3- And Skill, or expertness. (T, ISd, Meyd, TA.) This is said in the T to be the primary signification. (TA. [But see طَبِيبٌ.]) ― -b4- And (tropical:) Gentleness; gentle treatment or conduct. (K, TA.) ― -b5- And (tropical:) Enchantment, or fascination: (S, O, K, TA: but only طِبٌّ is mentioned in this sense in the S and O:) used in this sense as ominating cure. (AO, O, * TA.) ― -b6- And طِبٌّ signifies also Desire, or appetence; syn. شَهْوَةٌ: and will, or wish; syn. إِِرَادَةٌ. (K.) ― -b7- And (tropical:) State, condition, or case; syn. شَأْنٌ, (K, TA,) and دَأْبٌ: (A, TA:) [or by the latter of these two words may be meant what here follows:] custom, habit, or wont. (S, K, TA.) One says, مَاذَاكَ بِطِبِّى (tropical:) That is not my custom, habit, or wont. (S, A, TA.) [See also another ex., in a verse (added here in the S and TA) which I have cited voce إِِنْ, page 107, col. iii.] -A2- See also طَبٌّ.