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مَذْبُوبٌ ذ A camel attacked by flies, (A 'Obeyd, S, M,) that enter his nostrils, (S,) so that his neck becomes twisted, and he dies; as also ↓ أَذَبُّ : or both signify one that, coming to a cultivated region, finds it unwholesome to him, and dies there: (M:) and the former, a horse into whose nostril the fly has entered. (A.) ― -b2- See also أَرْضٌ مَذَبَّةٌ, above. ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) Possessed; or mad, or insane. (K.) ― -b4- And, accord. to the Abridgment of the 'Eyn, [in a copy of the S written ذَبُوبٌ, and in other copies thereof omitted,] (assumed tropical:) Foolish; stupid; or unsound, dull, or deficient, in intellect. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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