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جَرْدَبَانٌ جردبان , an arabicized word, (S, K,) from the Persian, (S,) originally گِرْدَهْ بَانْ “guardian of the cake of bread,” (S, K,) and جُرْدُبَانٌ and ↓ جَرْدَبِىٌّ and ↓ مُجَرْدِبٌ , (K,) One who puts his hand, (K,) or who puts his left hand, (S,) upon food, (K,) or upon a thing that is before him on the table, (S,) in order that no other person may take it: (S, K:) or who eats with his right hand, and prevents [others from eating] with his left hand: and one who eats greedily, gluttonously, or voraciously: or the first and ↓ third signify, (K, TA,) or signify also, (tropical:) a spunger; (K, TA;) because of his greediness, gluttony, or voraciousness, and his boldness. (TA.) A poet says, (namely, ElGhanawee, TA voce جَرْدَبِيلٌ,) “ إِِذَا مَا كُنْتَ فِى قَوْمٍ شَهَاوَى
فَلَا تَجْعَلْ شِمَالَكَ جَرْدَبَانَا
” [When thou art among a greedy company of men, put not thy left hand upon the food as a جردبان]: (Fr, S:) or the last word is جَرْدَبِيلَا, meaning, (accord. to Sh, as also جَرْدَبَان, TA voce جردبيل,) one that takes a fragment [of food] with his left hand, and eats with his right hand, and, when what the party have is consumed, eats what is in his left hand. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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