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جَانِبٌ جانب ; pl. جَوَانِبُ: see جَنْبٌ, in eleven places. [Hence, لَانَ جَانِبُهُ (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, gentle, easy to deal with, compliant, or obsequious. And رَجُلٌ لَيِّنُ الجَانِبِ (assumed tropical:) A man who is gentle, easy to deal with, compliant, or obsequious; contr. of غَلِيظُ الجَانِبِ; see art. غلظ: and see جَنَابٌ. And] تُزَنُّ بِلِينِ الجَانِبِ (assumed tropical:) [She is suspected of easiness, or compliance], (K in art. لمس,) towards him who desires of her that he may lie with her. (TA in that art.) [Hence also,] جَانِبَا الأَنْفِ (CK) and ↓ جَنَابَتَا and ↓ جَنْبَتَا and ↓ جَنَبَتَا (K) The two sides of the nose: (K:) or the two lines that surround the two sides of the nose of a doe-gazelle: (Sb, TA:) pl. [of the second, agreeably with analogy,] جَنَائِبُ. (TA.) ― -b2- See also جَنَابٌ. [It often signifies The vicinage or neighbourhood of a people &c.: and a region or quarter or tract of a people or country: like ناحية. ― -b3- The bank of a river; and any bank, or steep acclivity. ― -b4- And A limit, bound, or boundary: see a tropical usage of its pl. (جَوَانِبُ) voce. حِنْوٌ. ― -b5- And عَلَى جَانِبٍ means Beside, aside, or apart; and so جَانِبًا, and فِى جَانِبٍ. ― -b6- جَانِبٌ مِنْ مَالٍ, in posi-classical writings, means A portion, and particularly a large portion, of property: and جَانِبٌ alone, in the same, a sum, and particularly a large sum, of money. ― -b7- The latter, also, in post-classical writings, signifies, like جَنْبٌ, q. v., (assumed tropical:) A man's honour, or reputation, which should be preserved inviolate; so used in the K voce عِرْضٌ, in an explanation of the latter word taken from IAth; i. q. نَامُوسٌ and حُرْمَةٌ, as in the TK in that case.] -A2- Avoided and despised. (K, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps, دَعْ كَذَا جَانِبًا Let thou, or leave thou, such a thing alone: see an ex. voce أَوٌّ.] ― -b3- See also جُنُبٌ, in four places. ― -b4- And see مُجَنَّبٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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