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طَبِيبٌ ذ (S, Msb, K, TA) and ↓ طَبٌّ (Msb, TA) [A physician;] one skilled in الطِّبّ [i. e. medical, therapeutical, or curative, treatment]; (S, TA;) or one who practises medical, therapeutical, or curative, treatment; (Msb;) and ↓ مُتَطَبِّبٌ signifies [likewise one who practises physic: and a professor of physic: (see its verb:) or] one who applies himself to the science of physic: (S, K, TA:) or one who applies himself to that science but does not know it well: (Nh, TA:) it has been said that the طَبِيب is so called from the same epithet as signifying “ skilful, or expert; ” but this is not a valid assertion: (TA:) the pl. (of pauc., S) is أَطِبَّةٌ (S, K) and (of mult., S) أَطِبَّآءُ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- The first of these words (طبيب) occurs in a trad. as meaning (tropical:) A judge; being metonymically thus used, because the office of him who judges between litigants is like that of the طبيب who cures diseases of the body. (TA.) [And hence, طَبِيبُ العَرَبِ: see فَقِيهُ العَرَبِ, in art. فقه.] See also طَبٌّ, in six places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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