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جَابٍ جاب جابي A collector of water for camels: belonging to arts. جبو and جبى. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The locust (K) that collects everything by eating it; as also جَابِىءٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) The Arabs say, إِِذَا جَآءَتِ السَّنَةُ جَآءَ مَعَهَا الجَابِى وَالجَانِى, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [When the year of drought comes,] the locust and the wolf [come with it]. (IAar, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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