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مُطَنَّبٌ ذ A tent, (بَيْت, O, or خِبَآء, S,) and a رِوَاق, (S,) tied, or made fast, with أَطْنَاب [or tentropes]. (S, O.) A man is related to have said to Ubeí Ibn-Kaab, in reply to the latter's advising him to buy a beast to convey him to the place of prayer of the Prophet, مَا أَحِبُّ أَنْ بَيْتِى مُطَنَّبٌ بِبَيْتِ مُحَمَّدٍ i. e. [I do not like] that my tent should be tied with tent-ropes to the tent of Mohammad: as though he reckoned upon a reward for his many foot-steps to the mosque. (O.) ― -b2- And قَوْسٌ مُطَنَّبَةٌ A bow having an إِِطْنَابَة [q. v.] attached to it. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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