Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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أَطْيَبُ ذ [Better, and best; more, and most, pleasant, delightful, delicious, sweet, or savoury]: its fem. is طُوبَى: (ISd, K:) and أَطَايِبُ is its pl.: (S:) and أَيْطَبُ is a dial. var. of أَطْيَبُ, or is formed from the latter by transposition. (TA in art. يطب.) ― -b2- الأَطْيَبَانِ [The two best, or most pleasant, &c., of things,] means (assumed tropical:) Eating and coïtus: (IAar, S, A, O, K:) or sleep and coïtus: (ISk, O, TA:) or the mouth and the vulva of a woman: (Yaakoob, A, O, K:) or fat and youthfulness: (A, K:) or strength and appetence: or youthfulness and briskness or liveliness or sprightliness: (Har p. 88:) or fresh ripe dates and the خِربِز [or water-melon]: or milk and dates. (TA.) ― -b3- And أَطَايِبُ signifies The best, or best parts, of a thing, (K, TA,) as of flesh-meat, &c.; (TA;) as also ↓ مَطَايِبُ , a pl. which has no sing., (K, TA,) of the same class as مَحَاسِنُ and مَلَامِحُ, (TA,) or its pl. is ↓ مَطْيَبٌ , (Ks, O, K,) or ↓ مَطَابٌ and ↓ مَطَابَةٌ : (M, K:) or you say, أَطْعَمَنَا مِنْ أَطَايِبِ الجَزُورِ [He fed us from the best parts of the slaughtered camel], but not الجزور ↓ من مَطَايِبِ ; (S, O;) or you say, مِنْ أَطَايِبِهَا and ↓ مَطَايِبِهَا ; (As, A, O;) or the latter, but not the former; (Yaakoob, TA;) or you say أَطَايِبُ الجَزُورِ, and الرُّطَبِ ↓ مَطَايِبُ [the best of fresh ripe dates]; (IAar, K;) and AHn uses the phrase أَطَايِبُ الكَلَأِ [the best portions of the herbage]. (TA.)