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شَغْبٌ ذ inf. n. of شَغَبَ [q. v. passim]. (S, * A, * K, * TA.) ― -b2- Also Clamour, or a confusion of cries or shouts or noises: (Ham p. 505:) or much clamour and confused or indistinct speech, leading, or conducing, to evil, or mischief. (Har p. 311.) One says شَغْبُ الجُنْدِ [The clamour, &c., of the army]. (S, and Ham ubi suprà.) ― -b3- [Hence, app., this word, or the next, is used by some postclassical writers as signifying The plaintive cry of the بُلْبُل. (See De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., iii. 500 — 502.)]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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