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جَنِيبٌ جنيب , applied to a horse and a captive, (TA,) Led by one's side; as also ↓ مَجْنُوبٌ and ↓ مُجَنَّبٌ : (K:) or you say ↓ خَيْلٌ مَجَنَّبَةٌ , meaning horses led by the side; the teshdeed denoting application to many objects: (S, TA:) pl. [of the first, and of جَنِيبَةٌ, q. v., or only of this last,] جَنَائِبُ and [quasi-pl. n.] ↓ جَنَبٌ . (K.) One walking by the side of another; (A;) [and] so ↓ جُنَّابٌ . (K.) ― -b2- Any animal or man that is obedient, tractable, or submissive. (S, TA.) You say, أَصْبَحَ جَنِيبَهُ He became compliant to him. (A.) -A2- See also جُنُبٌ. -A3- Also, applied to a man, [app. Having a pain in the side; or having the pleurisy; like مَجْنُوبٌ: and hence, or from جَنِبَ, q. v., irregularly formed,] as though walking on one side, bent or crooked, مُتَعَقِّفًا: so in the L: in the M and K, on the authority of IAar, مُتَعَقِّبًا [to which I am unable to assign an appropriate meaning, except its modern one of lagging behind]: so in the saying of a poet, “ رَبَا الجُوعُ فِى أَوْنَيْهِ حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ
جَنِيبٌ بِهِ إِِنَّ الجَنِيبَ جَنِيبُ
” [Hunger increased in him (lit. in the two sides of his saddle-bags); so that he seemed as though he walked on one side, bent thereby; for he who has a pain in his side walks on one side, in that manner]. (TA.) -A4- Also An excellent kind of dates, (K, TA,) well known; (TA;) one of the best kinds of dates. (Mgh in art. جمع, Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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