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طَاعُونٌ ذ (tropical:) An epidemic disease; (TA;) [i. e.] plague, or pestilence, syn. وَبَأ or وَبَآء, (K, TA,) by reason of which the air is vitiated, and by it the constitutions and the bodies are vitiated: (TA:) or the kind of وَبَأ with which men are smitten by the jinn, or genii: (TA voce وَبَأٌ, q. v.:) or a mortality in consequence of وَبَأ: (S, Msb:) pl. طَوَاعِينُ: (S, Msb, K:) it is a tropical term from الطَّعْنُ, because the طَوَاعِين are called by them رِمَاحُ الجِنِّ [the spears of the jinn, or genii]. (Z, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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