Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ذ

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4 اذابهُ ذ and ↓ ذوّبهُ He melted it, dissolved it, rendered it fluid or liquid, liquified it; (S, M, A, K;) or made it to flow. (Msb.) It is said in a prov., (S, TA,) respecting butter, (S,) مَا يَدْرِى أَيُخْثِرُ أَمْ يُذِيبُ [expl. in art. خثر]. (S, M, TA.) [See also a verse of Bishr cited below in this paragraph.] ― -b2- [Hence,] the former [as meaning (tropical:) It dissolved him, or emaciated him,] is said of anxiety, (A, TA,) and grief. (TA.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] اذاب حَاجَتَهُ, and ↓ استذابها , (tropical:) He matured, and fully accomplished, the object of his want. (A, TA.) And اذابوا أَمْرَهُمْ (assumed tropical:) They put their affair into a good, sound, or right, state. (K.) ― -b4- اذابوا عَلَيْنَا, (S, M,) or عَلَيْهِمْ, (A, K,) inf. n. إِِذَابَةٌ, (S,) (tropical:) They made an inroad or incursion, or a sudden attack, urging their horses, upon us, or upon them, (S, M, A, K,) and took spoil [from us, or them, or made, or left, our property, or theirs, to be taken as spoil]. (A.) Hence the saying of Bishr (S) Ibn-Abee-Kházim, (TA,) “ فَكَانُو كَذَاتِ القِدْرِ لَمْ تَدْرِ إِِذْ غَلَتْ
أَتَتْرُكُهَا مَذْمُومَةً أَمْ تُذِيبُهَا
” (S,) or وَكُنْتُمْ, (M, TA,) and أَتْنْزِلُهَا, (so in some copies of the S and M,) meaning (assumed tropical:) [And they were, or and ye were, like her having the cookingpot, not knowing, when it boiled, whether she should leave it, or put it down from the fire, disapproved, or] whether she should let it be taken as spoil: (S, TA:) so accord. to AZ: (S:) or the meaning is, [whether she should put it down from the fire,] or make it to remain; i. e. تُثْبِتُهَا, (S, TA,) or تُبْقِيهَا; (AHeyth, TA;) from ذَابَ لِى عَلَيْهِ حَقٌّ, expl. above, (S, TA,) or from مَا ذَابَ فِى يَدِى شَىْءٌ, also expl. above: (A Heyth, TA:) or, accord. to As, the meaning is, or whether she should melt it; from the prov. mentioned above in this paragraph: (S, TA:) i. e., whether she should leave it in a thick state, [disapproved,] or should melt it; fearing that the butter [in the cooking-pot] would spoil. (TA.) [In the TT, for مَذْمُومَةً, I find مَدْمُومَةً, which, applied to a cooking-pot, means smeared, or done over, with spleen, &c. See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 626 et seq.]