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جَادِبٌ جادب Finding fault, dispraising, expressing disapprobation: whence the saying of Dhu-rRummeh, “ فَيَا لَكَ مِنْ خَدٍّ أَسِيلٍ و مَنْطِقٍ
رَخِيمٍ وَمِنْ خَلْقٍ تَعَلَّلَ جَادِبُهْ
” meaning [O thou smooth and even cheek, and gentle speech, and make] whereof he who dispraises it occupies himself vainly, finding no defect in it. (S, TA.) ― -b2- It is also said [as in the K &c.] to signify Lying; and the author of the 'Eyn says that it has no verb belonging to it [in this sense]; but this is a mistranscription [for خَادِبٌ]: AZ says that جَادِبٌ, with ج, has the signification here first given. (M, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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