Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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4 ازغب ذ , said of a grape-vine, (S, K,) i. e., app., accord. to [J and] F, like أَكْرَمَ, but accord. to others of the leading lexicologists it seems to be [↓ ازغبّ ,] like اِحْمَرَّ; as also ↓ ازغابّ ; It produced what resembled زَغَب [or down], at the knots of the shoots, whence the bunches of grapes would grow: (TA:) this it does when the sap flows in it, (S, K, TA,) and it begins to produce leaves. (K, TA.) ― -b2- A'Obeyd, in applying to the truffles termed بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ the epithet مزغبة, [written in art. وبر in copies of the K ↓ مُزْغِبَةٌ , and in the T and S and M ↓ مُزَغِّبَةٌ , but in the present art. in the TA it seems to be indicated that it is probably ↓ مُزْغِبَّةٌ ,] signifying having زَغَب [i. e. down], assigns to it a verb [which may be أَزْغَبَتْ or ↓ زَغَّبَتْ or ↓ اِزْغَبَّتْ , meaning They had, or produced, a kind of downy substance]. (TA.)