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شُبَّاكٌ ذ : see شَبَكَةٌ, in two places: ― -b2- and شِبَاكٌ, likewise in two places: ― -b3- and شُبَّاكَةٌ, also in two places. ― -b4- Applied to a دِرْع i. q. مَحْبُوكَةٌ [app. as signifying Woven well, or well and compactly; in which sense this epithet seems to be more properly applicable to a woman's “shift” than to “a coat of mail;” but دِرْعٌ in the former of these senses is seldom, if ever, fem.; and in the latter sense, seldom, if ever, masc.]. (TA.) -A2- [It is also a pl., of which the sing., if used, is probably ↓ شَابِكٌ , accord. to analogy; as a possessive epithet, meaning ذُو شَبَكَة ٍ, like لَابِنٌ meaning ذُو لَبَن ٍ, &c.:] one says, رَأَيْتُ عَلَى المَآءِ الشُّبَّاكَ I saw, upon the water, the fishermen with the nets. (Az, Z, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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