Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ز

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زُمْحٌ زَاعِبِىٌّ ذ , (A,) and رِمَاحٌ زَاعِبِيَّةٌ, (A, K,) A spear, (A,) and spears, (A, K,) so called in relation to a certain man named Zá'ib (زَاعِبٌ), (A, K,) of El-Khazraj, who made spear-heads: (A:) so says Mbr: (TA:) or (assumed tropical:) the spears thus termed are such as quiver much (عَسَّالَةٌ), which, when shaken, have a motion like the torrent termed زَاعِبٌ, of which one portion impels another: the ى being that of the rel. n.; to give intensiveness to the signification, as in أَحْمَرِىٌّ: (A:) or (tropical:) such that, when they are shaken, their كُعُوب [i. e. knots, or joints, or their internodal portions,] are as though they ran one into another, (K, TA,) by reason of its pliancy: so says As: and this meaning is tropical; for it is from the phrase مَرَّ يَزْعَبُ بِحِمْلِهِ meaning “ he went along [impelled by his load, or] easily with his load: ” accord. to another explanation, زاعبىّ applied to a spear means such that, when it is shaken, the whole of it is [in appearance] impelled in its several parts by the impetus of one part acting upon another, as though its hind part ran into its fore part: (TA:) or زَاعِبِيَّةٌ signifies spears, (S, TA,) universally. (TA.) You say also سِنَانٌ زَاعِبِىٌّ (S, TA) A spear-head of Zá'ib. (TA.)