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ذَرَبَيَّا ذ (assumed tropical:) A vice, fault, defect, or the like; as also ↓ ذَرَبَى . (K.) ― -b2- And A calamity, or misfortune; (S, M, K;) from ذَرِبَ الجُرْحُ meaning “ the wound admitted not of cure; ” (S;) as also ↓ ذَرَبَّى , (K, TA,) or ↓ ذَرَبِىٌّ , (so accord. to the CK,) and ↓ ذَرَبَيَّةٌ [or ذَرَبِيَّةٌ?]. (TA.) El-Kumeyt says, مَانِى بِالذَّرَبَيَّا meaning (assumed tropical:) [He smote me, or afflicted me,,] with calamity, or misfortune: or with evil, or mischief; and discord, or dissension; (T;) as also ↓ بِالذَّرَبَينَ [in the form of a pl. applied to rational beings, as though denoting personifications], (K, accord. to the TA,) or ↓ بِالذَّّرَبَيْنِ [in the dual form]; (so in the CK and in my MS copy of the K;) which likewise means with calamity, or misfortune. (TA.) And لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ الذَّرَبَيَّا and ↓ الذَّرِبَةَ and ↓ الذربَين , [thus this last is written in the TT as from the M,] meaning (assumed tropical:) [I experienced from him, or it,] calamity, or misfortune. (M.) And ↓ أُلْقِىَ بَيْنَهُمْ الذَّرَبَ (assumed tropical:) Evil, or mischief, and discord, or dissension, were cast among them, or between them. (T.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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