Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طَيِّبٌ ذ (S, M, Mgh, O, Msb, K) and ↓ طَابٌ , (S, M, O, K,) the latter originally طَائِبٌ and deprived of its medial radical letter, or of the measure فَعَلٌ, (M, TA,) Contr. of خَبِيثٌ, (S, Mgh, O,) in two senses: (Mgh:) [i. e. good,] pleasant, delightful, delicious, sweet, or savoury; syn. لَذِيذٌ; (Msb, K; *) or esteemed [good,] pleasant, delightful, delicious, sweet, or savoury, (مُسْتَلَذٌّ,) in taste, and in odour: (Mgh:) and pure, (Mgh, K,) or clean. (Mgh.) You say طَعَامٌ طَيِّبٌ Food [pleasant in taste; or] that descends easily [and agreeably] down the throat. (TA.) And مَآءٌ طَيِّبٌ Sweet water; (O, TA;) or pure water. (TA.) [And رَائِحَةٌ طَيِّبَةٌ A pleasant, sweet, or fragrant, odour.] And بَلَدٌ طَيِّبٌ A country that has no salsuginous places in it: (O, TA:) or a land of good and fertile soil. (Mgh.) And صَعِيدٌ طَيِّبٌ Pure ground. (Zj, Mgh, O.) And الكَلِمُ الطَّيِّبُ (assumed tropical:) [The good saying] i. e. لَا إِِلٰهَ إِِلَّا ا@للّٰهُ [There is no deity but God]. (TA.) And فُلَانٌ فِى بَيْتٍ طَيِّبٍ i. e. (tropical:) [Such a one is of a good house, or family; meaning,] of high, or noble, birth. (TA.) And فُلَانٌ طَيِّبُ الإِِزَارِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is continent, or chaste. (O.) And فُلَانٌ طَيِّبُ الأَخْلَاقِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is [of good, or pleasant, dispositions;] easy in converse, conversable, or affable. (O, TA.) [And طَيِّبُ النَّفْسِ (assumed tropical:) Cheerful, happy, pleased, or dilated, in mind. (See طَابَتْ نَفْسُهُ.) And نَفْسٌ طَيِّبَةٌ بِشَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) A mind cheerful, happy, pleased, or dilated, by means of a thing: or pleased, content, or willing, to grant, concede, give, or do, a thing: and طَيِّبَةٌ عَنْ شَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) pleased, willing, or content, to leave, give up, relinquish, or be without, a thing. (See, again, 1.)] ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) Lawful; allowable; allowable by, or agreeable to, law; legitimate; legal; or free. (Mgh, Msb, K.) لَا يَسْتَوِى ا@لْخَبِيثُ وَا@لطَّيِّبُ, in the Kur [v. 100], means (assumed tropical:) The unlawful and the lawful of property and the unrighteous and the righteous of deeds and the sound and the unsound of tenets or the like and the good and the bad of mankind [shall not be equal in your estimation]. (Mgh.) [See also the next paragraph.]