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دَاعِبٌ داعب and ↓ دَعِبٌ (A, Msb, K) and [in a sense thought by MF to be intensive (see دُعَابَةٌ）] ↓ دُعْبُبٌ (K) and [in an intensive sense] ↓ دَعَّابٌ (S [there coupled with لَعَّابٌ, perhaps as an explicative adjunct,]) and [in a sense doubly intensive] ↓ دَعَّابَةٌ (K) Jesting, or joking, (A, Msb,) and saying what is deemed pleasing, or facetious: (A:) or playing, or sporting: (K:) [in the case of the third, app., and of the fourth, much, or often: and in the case of the last, very much, or very often.] ― -b2- [Hence,] مَآءٌ دَاعِبٌ (tropical:) Water playing in its course, or running hither and thither: (A, K:) pl. مِيَاهٌ دَوَاعِبُ. (A.) And رِيحٌ دَاعِبَةٌ A wind, (A,) or violent wind, (TA,) that carries away everything; as it were, making sport with it: pl. رِيَاحٌ دَوَاعِبٌ: (A, TA:) and ↓ رِيحٌ دُعْبِيَّةٌ signifies the same; (TA;) or [simply] a violent wind. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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