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مُذَبِّبٌ ذ (tropical:) A rider hastening, or making haste, (T, S, M, K,) apart from others: (S, M, K:) or striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself, in going, or journeying, so as to leave not a ذُبَابَة [or any part of his journey remaining unaccomplished]. (A.) And it is also applied to a [wild] bull. (A.) In the following saying, “ ↓ مَسِيرَةٌشَهْرٍ لِلْبَعِيرِ المُذَبْذِبِ
” (assumed tropical:) [A month's journey to the hastening camel], (M,) or لِلْبَرِيدِ المُذَبْذِبِ [to the hastening messenger], (TA,) by المذبذب is meant المُذَبِّب. (M, TA.) ― -b2- [(assumed tropical:) A quick journey: or one in which is no flagging, or langour.] You say, لَا يَنَالُونَ المَآءِ إِِلَّا بِقَرَبٍ مُذَبِّبٍ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [They will not reach the water but by a] quick [night-journey thereto]. (S.) And خِمْسٌ مُذَبِّبٌ (assumed tropical:) [A journey in which the camels are watered only on the first and fifth days] in which is no flagging, or langour. (T.) ― -b3- ظِمْءٌ مُذَبِّبٌ (assumed tropical:) [An interval between two water-ings] of long duration, in which one journeys from afar (T, S, M, K) and with haste. (T, S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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