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5 تزبّى زُبْيَةً ذ He made a pitfall for a lion (S, Mgh, K) or a wolf; (Mgh;) as also ↓ زبّاه , inf. n. تَزْبِيَةٌ. (K.) A rájiz says, “ وَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ا@للَّذْ كِيدَا
كَا@للَّذْ تَزَبَّى زُبْيَةً فَا@صْطِيدَا
” [And by no means be thou of those who have been beguiled; like him who has made a pitfall for a lion or a wolf, and then has himself been trapped]. (S, * Mgh.) ― -b2- And تزبّى فِى الزُّبْيَةِ, accord. to ISd, signifies the same as تَزبَّاهَا [app. in a sense different from that expl. above; meaning He concealed himself from the objects of the chase in the hollow made for that purpose: or he fell into the زُبْيَة, like تَرَدَّى فِى الزُّبْيَةِ]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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