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مُذْهِبٌ ذ A gilder. (S.) ― -b2- ↓ المُذْهَبُ , explained by Lth as the name of (assumed tropical:) A certain devil, said to be of the offspring of Iblees, who tempts reciters of the Kur-án in the performance of [the ablution termed] الوُضُوْء, (K, * TA,) and on other occasions, (TA,) is [said to be] correctly [المُذْهِبُ,] with kesr to the ه: (K:) applied to the devil, (TA in art. شيط,) as meaning (assumed tropical:) he who embellishes, or renders goodly in appearance, acts of disobedience [to God], as also المُهَذِّبُ, (Fr, TA in art. هذب,) IDrd thinks that it is not [genuine] Arabic. (TA.) And accord. to the S and El-Kurtubee and many others, ↓ بِهِ مُذْهَبٌ means (assumed tropical:) [In him is] a vain suggestion [of the devil] respecting the water, and [respecting] the using much thereof in the وُضُوْء: [i. e. a vain suggestion that may induce him to think that the water is unfit, or deficient in quantity, or the like:] but accord. to the K, it is correctly المُذْهِبُ. (TA.) Az says that the people of Baghdád apply the appellation مُذْهِبٌ to (assumed tropical:) A man who inspires vain suggestions; and that the vulgar among them pronounce it ↓ مُذْهَبٌ . (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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