Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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أَزَبُّ ذ Downy: (K:) and, applied to a man, having much hair: (A, K:) or having much and long hair: (S, TA: [but accord. to the former, it seems to be applied in this sense to a camel:]) or, applied to a man, having much hair in the ears and eyebrows: and having much hair on the fore arms and the eyebrows and eyes: (TA:) or, thus applied, having much hair on the chest: (Msb:) and, applied to a camel, having much fur: or having much fur on the face: (A:) or having much hair on the face and under the lower jaw: (K:) or, in the ears and on the eyes: (TA:) or having much hair on the face and body: and ↓ زُبَيْبٌ is a shortened dim. thereof: (Ham p. 140:) fem. زَبَّآءُ, applied to a woman as meaning having much hair in the eyebrows and on the fore arms and the hands: (A:) and to an ear as meaning having much hair: (TA:) pl. زُبٌّ. (A.) It is said in a prov., كُلُّ أَزَبَّ نَفُورٌ [Every one, of camels, that has much hair on the face &c. is wont to take fright, and run away at random]: for the camel thinks what he sees upon his eyes to be a person seeking him, and consequently takes fright, and runs away at random: (A:) the camel to which this epithet applies is seldom, or never, other than نفور; because there grow upon his eyebrow small hairs, and when the wind strikes them he takes fright, and runs away at random. (S, TA.) ― -b2- الأَزَبُّ is a name of One of the devils: (K, TA:) mention is made in a trad. of a certain devil named أَزَبُّ العَقَبَةِ: (K, TA:) but in the L, and in the Seeret El-Halabee, it is written إِِزْبُ العَقَبَةِ: and it is said to be a serpent. (TA in art. ازب.) ― -b3- الزَّبَّآءُ The اِسْت [i. e. podex, or anus], (K, TA,) with its hair. (TA.) ― -b4- عَامٌ أَزَبُّ (tropical:) A year abundant in herbage. (S, A, Msb, K.) ― -b5- يَوْمٌ أَزَبُّ: see أَحَصُّ, in two places. ― -b6- جَيْشٌ أَزَبُّ (assumed tropical:) An army having many spears. (Ham p. 259.) ― -b7- مَسْأَلَةٌ زَبَّآءُ ذَاتُ وَبَرٍ (tropical:) A dubious and difficult question: likened to the she-camel that [has much hair and fur upon the face &c., and consequently] is wont to take fright, and run away at random. (TA.) ― -b8- And دَاهِيَةٌ زَبَّآءُ (tropical:) A calamity, or misfortune, hard to be borne, severe, (A, K, TA,) and abominable; like شَعْرَآءُ (TA) and وَبْرَآءُ. (S and A and TA in art. شعر.) Hence the prov., جَآءَبِالشَّعْرَآءِ الزَّبَّآءِ [He brought to pass that which was a calamity hard to be borne, &c.] (TA.)