Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ض

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1 ضَبَّ ذ , aor. ضَبِ3َ , (K,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ, (S, K,) He, or it, clave to the ground: (S, * K:) [like ضَبَأَ:] this is the primary signification. (S.) ― -b2- And, aor. and inf. n. as above, It flowed: (K, TA:) like بَضَّ: or it flowed gently, or scantily; as blood when it does not drop, or issue in drops, so as to require the repetition of the ablution for prayer: (TA:) or it is only said of blood and of saliva: (K:) or, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبِيبٌ, said of water and of blood, it flowed. (S.) And ضَبَّتْ شَفَتُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبٌّ and ضُبُوبٌ, His lip flowed with blood, from a tumour &c. (TA. [See also another meaning in what follows.]) And ضَبَّتْ لِثَتُهُ دَمًا His gum flowed with blood: (S:) or ضبّت بِالدَّمِ: and in like manner, يَدُهُ [his hand or arm]: (A:) and تَرَكْتُ لِثَتَهَ تَضِيبُّ مِنَ الدَّمِ, inf. n. ضَبِيبٌ, I left his gum flowing with blood. (TA.) ضَبَّتع لِثَتُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبٌّ, means His gum watered, or flowed with saliva. (TA.) And one says, جَآءَ فُلَانٌ تَضِبُّ لِثَاتُهُ (tropical:) [Such a one came with his gums watering] (S, A *) لِكَذَا وَكَذَا [for such and such things], (A,) when the person spoken of is vehemently eager, or greedy, for a thing, (S, A,) or when he is affected with very inordinate desire to eat, or with vehement lust, or carnal desire, or with vehement eagerness, or greediness, for the accomplishment of an object of want. (L, TA.) Bishr Ibn-Abee-Kházim says, “ وَبَنِى تَمِيمٍ قَدْ لَقِينَا مِنْهُمُ
خَيْلًا تَضِيبُّ لِثَاتُهَا لِلْمَغْنَمِ
” (assumed tropical:) [And the sons of Temeem, we have found, of them, horsemen whose gums water for spoil]: in which تَضِبُّ is said by AO to be formed by transposition from تَبِضُّ. (S.) [See another ex. in a verse cited voce أَزْمَلٌ.] Another poet says, “ أَبَيْنَا أَبَيْنَا أَنْ تَضِبَّ لِثَاتُكُمْ
عَلَى خُرَّدٍ مِثْلِ الظِّبَآءِ وَجَامِلِ
” (assumed tropical:) [We disallow, we disallow, that your gums should water for virgins, or bashful virgins, like gazelles, and for camels]. (TA.) One says also, ضَبَّ فَمُهُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضَبٌّ, meaning His mouth watered, or flowed with saliva: (TA:) and يَضِبُّ فُوهُ (tropical:) [His mouth waters] is said of him who is vehemently eager, or greedy, for a thing. (A, TA.) ― -b3- ضَبَّتِ الدَّابَّةُ, aor. as above, inf. n. ضُبُوبٌ, means The beast staled while running. (TA.) -A2- See also 4, in five places. -A3- ضَبَّ said of a boy, or male child, He became a youth, or young man; he attained to the state termed شَبَاب. (TA.) -A4- ضَبَّتِ الشَّفَةُ, aor. as above, (Msb, K,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ and ضُبُوبٌ, (K,) The lip became affected with the disease termed ضَبّ. (Msb, K. [See also another meaning in what precedes.]) -A5- ضَبَّ, (S, K,) sec. pers. ضَبِبْتَ, (TA,) aor. ضَبَ3َ , inf. n. ضَبَبٌ, said of a camel, He became affected with the disease termed ضَبّ (S, K) in his فِرْسِن [i. e. in his foot, or the extremity of his foot]. (S.) -A6- ضَبِبَ البَلَدُ, (ISk, S,) or ضَبِبَتِ الأَرْضُ, aor. ضَبَ3َ ; and ضَبُبَت; (K;) [instances of reduplicative verbs preserving their original forms;] and ↓ أَضَبَّ , (S,) or أَضَبَّت; (Msb, K;) The country, or land, abounded with [the lizards called] ضِبَاب, pl. of ضَبّ. (S, Msb, K.) -A7- ضَبَّ النَّاقَةَ, aor. ضَبُ3َ , (S, O,) inf. n. ضَبٌّ, (O, K,) He milked the camel with five fingers [i. e. with his thumb and four fingers together]: (S, O:) or with the whole hand: (K: or this mode of milking is termed ضَفٌّ: TA:) or by putting his thumb upon the teat and turning the fingers over the thumb and the teat together: (Fr, S, O, K: this is done when the teat is long: when it is of middling length, the mode termed بَزْمٌ is adopted, with the joint of the fore finger and the extremity of the thumb: and when it is short, the mode termed فَطْرٌ, with the extremity of the fore finger and the thumb: TA:) or by taking the two teats together in the hand: (K: [or this mode of milking is termed ضَفٌّ:] and the milking with a hard squeezing is termed ↓ ضَبَّةٌ : TA:) or by contracting the hand upon the udder, and putting the thumb in, or upon, (فِى,) the middle of the palm. (L, TA.) -A8- [ضَبَّ and ↓ ضبّب , each probably followed by عَلَى, seem to signify sometimes It covered a thing, and became intermixed with it: the inf. ns. الضبب (which I think to be a mistranscription for الضَّبُّ) and التضبيب are expl. in the TA as signifying “ the covering a thing, and the entering of one part, or portion, of it into another: ” see two explanations of each of these verbs, followed by عَلَى, voce أَضَبَّ.]