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R. Q. 1 ذَبْذَبٌ ذ , (T,) inf. n. ذَبْذَبَةٌ, (K,) He defended his neighbours and family. (T, K.) [See also 1.] -A2- And He annoyed, molested, harmed, or hurt, (T, K,) people. (K.) -A3- And He made a thing to dangle, or move to and fro; (L;) and made it to be in a state of motion, commotion, or agitation. (L, K. *) ― -b2- [Hence,] ذَبْذَبَهُ, inf. n. as above, (assumed tropical:) He left him, or made him to be, confounded, or perplexed, not knowing his right course; wavering, vacillating, or going to and fro. (Msb.) -A4- ذَبْذَبَةٌ also signifies The dangling, or moving to and fro, of a thing suspended in the air: (S, M:) and ↓ تَذَبْذُبٌ the being in a state of motion or commotion: (S, L:) [or the latter has both these meanings; for] you say, الشَّىْءُ ↓ تَذَبْذَبَ the thing dangled, or moved to and fro, (M, A, L,) in the air; (A;) and was in a state of commotion or agitation. (M, L.) It is said in a trad., فَكَأَنِّىأَنْظُرُ إِِلَى يَدَيْهِ تُذَبْذِبَانِ, meaning And it was as though I looked at his two sleeves in a state of commotion, or shaking. (TA.) And you say, بَيْنَ أَمْرَيْنِ ↓ تذَبْذَبَ (assumed tropical:) He wavered, or vacillated, between two affairs. (MA.) And أَمْرُهُمْ ↓ تَذَبْذَبَ (assumed tropical:) [Their state of affairs was, or became, fluctuating, or unsteady]. (Lh, T in art. دل.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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