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طَبَاقَآءُ ذ (tropical:) A camel (S, O, K) that will not cover; (S, O;) lacking strength, or ability, to cover. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And, applied to a man, (S, O, K,) (assumed tropical:) Impeded in his speech; unable to speak; or tonguetied: (O, K, * TA:) or that will not perform the act of coïtus: (TA:) or heavy, covering the woman (يُطْبِقُ عَلَى المَرْأَةِ, in the CK [erroneously] يَطْبِقُ, and in my MS. copy of the K يُطَبِّق المرأةَ,) with his breast by reason of his heaviness: (K, TA:) or impotent; syn. عِيِىٌّ: (S, O:) or impotent (عَيِىٌّ), heavy, covering her whom he compresses, or the woman, with his breast, by reason of his littleness, or immature age: accord. to As, stupid, foolish, impotent in speech or actions, dull, or heavy: accord. to IAar, whose reason is veiled, or wholly obscured, (عَلَيْهِمُطْبَقٌ , [see أَطْبَقَ عَلَيْهِ الجُنُونُ,]) by stupidity, or foolishness: or, as some say, whose affairs are veiled to him [so that he sees not how to accomplish them]: or who lacks ability to speak, his lips being closed. (TA.) ― -b3- تَحَلَّبُوا عَلَى ذٰلِكَ الإِِنْسَانِ طَبَاقَآءَ means They collected themselves together against that man, all of them. (ISh, O.)

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