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جَنِبٌ جنب : see جَنِبَ. ― -b2- It is also applied as an epithet to a wolf, because he pretends to halt, from guile, or cunning. (L, TA.) ― -b3- Also A man who goes aside, or to a distance, from the beaten way, for fear of guests' coming to him for entertainment. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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