جب

maṣdar جَبٌّ and جِبَابٌ.

or جِبَابٌ, or جَبَابٌ, or both the second and the last. [The first is disallowed by MF.]

Also الجَبَابِ, with fet-h, or both forms.

According to some: in grounds of pretension to respect or honour, or in beauty, and in any manner whatever.

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on this sense The saying [She overcame the women of the whole world by means of the string]

relates to a woman who measured round her hinder parts with a string and then threw it to the women of the tribe, that they might do the like with it; but they found it far exceeded their own measures.

on this sense See form 3, in three places.

See also form 2.

The reaching of the [whiteness termed] تَحْجِيل in a horse to the knee and the hock; or the rising of the whiteness to the extent of what is termed الجَبَبُ.

Said of a horse. In this case the horse is called مُجَبَّبٌ, and the noun is جَبَبٌ, a whiteness of the legs rising to the knee and the hock.

[See مُجَبَّبٌ.]

Said of a man.

on this sense The act of shrinking from a thing; or being averse to it; or withdrawing, outwardly or inwardly.

The satisfying with water of the earth, or of cattle.

The act of vying, or contending for superiority, in goodliness or beauty and the like — for instance, in grounds of pretension to respect or honour, and in lineage.

مُجَابَّةٌ: the vying, or contending for superiority, in goodliness or beauty and the like, and in food; but [SM says,] I do not know where this addition about food comes from.

Said of camels' milk: it had, or produced, what is termed جُبَاب [q. v.].

He clad himself with a جُبَّة [q. v.].

[And so, apparently, اجتبّ, explained by Golius, on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof, as meaning He put on a vest, or tunic.]

See form 1, in three places.

And see also form 5.

He dealt, or trafficked, in جَبَاجِب [plural of جُبْجُبَةٌ, q. v.].

Same as اِتَّشَقَ: he prepared what is called جُبْجُبَة; or he put what is called خَلْع into a جُبْجُبَة [q. v.].

A well; or a well not cased with stone or the like; or a well containing much water; or a deep well; or a well of some other description.

Or a well in a good situation with respect to pasture; or one that people have found, not one that they have dug; or a well that is not deep.

El-Kilábeeyeh: a well that is wide, or ample.

Aboo-Habeeb: a well that is cut through rock, or smooth rock, or stones, or smooth stones, or hard and smooth and large stones.

Of the masculine gender, [not feminine like بِئْرٌ]; or masculine and feminine.

Plural أَجْبَابٌ (of paucity) and جِبَابٌ and جِبَبَةٌ.

A kind of leathern bag; a مَزَادَة of which one part is sewed to another, in which they used to prepare the beverage called نَبِيذ until, by use, it acquired strength for that purpose; also called مَجْبُوبَةٌ.

Mentioned in a tradition that forbids its use.

The spathe, or envelope, of the spadix, or flowers, of the palm-tree; also called جُفٌّ. The former word was unknown to A'Obeyd.

Both occur, according to different readings, in a tradition where it is said that a charm contrived to bewitch Mohammad was put into the جُبّ or جُفّ of a طَلْعَة.

Sh: it means the inside of a طَلْعَة [which here apparently signifies, as it does in some other instances, the spathe, not the spadix, of a palm-tree], just as the inside of a well, from its bottom to its top, is called جُبّ.

The plural is جِبَابٌ.

A well-known proverb, applied to a man in whom there is little or no good: he is like the spathes of the palm-tree in which there are no flowers, so do not tire yourself by attempting to make him good; لَا تَعَنَّ standing for لَا تَتَعَنَّ.

A well-known garment, or coat, of the kind of those called مُقَطَّعَات.

'Iyád: a garment cut out and sewed.

Ibn-Hajar and others: a double garment quilted with cotton; or, sometimes, if of wool, a single garment, not quilted with anything.

[Most probably it was not so much like the modern garment more generally known by the same name (for a description and a picture of which see my “Modern Egyptians,” ch. 1) as a kind of جُبَّة still worn in Northern Africa, described in this Lexicon under مِدْرَعَةٌ; according to Golius, “tunica ex panno gossipino, cui pallium seu toga imponitur, cum subductitio panno et intercedente gossipio punctim consuta: Italis consona voce giuppa: si ita cum gossipio consuta non sit, دُرَّاعَةٌ tunica illa gossipina dicitur.”]

Plural جُبَبٌ and جِبَابٌ.

The part of a spear-head into which the shaft enters; and the ثَعْلَب is the part of the spear-shaft that enters into the head.

A cutting off of the hump of a camel; or a cutting in the hump of a camel; [or the state of having the hump cut off;] or an erosion of the hump of a camel, by the saddle, so that it does not grow large.

See also form 2.

Butter, or what is produced by churning, of camels' milk, as زُبْد is what is produced by churning of cows' or sheep's or goats' milk, as noted under زبد.

What rises upon the surface, or what has collected together [or coagulated], of the milk of camels, resembling زُبْد, which camels' milk does not have.

When a camel shakes about a skin of camels' milk suspended to him, what is termed جباب collects at the mouth of the skin.

The earth, in general; sometimes written جَبُوبُ as a proper name, without the article, and imperfectly declinable, like شَعُوبُ.

Suh: it is so called because it is cut, that is, dug; or because it cuts, that is, severs, the bodies of those buried in it.

Hence جَبَّانٌ and جَبَّانَةٌ, meaning a burial-ground, from الجَبُّ and الجَبُوبُ, according to Kh; but others derive these two words from جبن, or rugged land.

Or hard or rugged land, composed of rock, not of soil; or earth, or dust; or the surface of the earth, whether plain or rugged or mountainous. The word has no plural.

Also coarse, or big, lumps or clods of clay or mud, or of dry, tough, cohesive clay or mud, plucked from the surface of the ground; or crumbled clods of clay or mud, or of dry, tough, cohesive clay or mud.

And with ة: a lump, or clod, of clay or mud, or of dry, tough, cohesive clay or mud.

See what next follows.

[Apparently a contraction of جُبَبِىٌّ], or جِبَابِىٌّ: a seller of جِبَاب [plural of جُبَّةٌ, q. v.].

See جَبُوبٌ, and see the article جبن.

See جَبُوبٌ, and see the article جبن.

See what next follows, in two places.

Or جَبْجَبَةٌ, or both, with جَبَاجِبُ as the plural: the stomach of a ruminant animal in which خَلْع [q. v.] is put, that is, in which flesh-meat cut in pieces is put; or in which flesh-meat is put to be used as provision in travelling; or in which melted grease is collected or put.

Or the skin of the side of a camel, cut out in a round form, in which is prepared flesh-meat of the kind called وَشِيقَة, which is flesh-meat boiled once, then cut into strips and dried, or salted and sun-dried; the longest-lasting of all provision of the kind.

Or the first and the second both mean tripe; in Persian, شكنبه or إِشْكَنْبَه.

A coward is likened to a جبجبة in which خلع is put, because of his swollen look and his little usefulness.

A tripe-seller. Golius, from Meyd. [See جُبْجُبَةٌ.]

Food made with tripe; in Persian, شِكَنْبَهْ وَا (Golius, from Meyd); in Turkish, سُخْتُو شورباسى.

A camel having his hump cut off; or having his hump eroded by the saddle, so that it does not grow large; or having no hump.

Feminine جَبَّآءُ.

The middle, or main part, of a road.

A horse in which the [whiteness termed] تَحْجِيل reaches to the knee and the hock; that is, in which the whiteness of the lower part of the leg reaches to the knees and the hocks; or in which the تحجيل reaches to his knees; or in which the whiteness rises to the extent of what is termed الجَبَبُ, or more than this, [perhaps a copyist's mistake for less than this,] so as not to reach the knees; or in which the whiteness reaches to the hairs that surround his hoof.

Having the genitals, or the testicles and the penis, cut off entirely; or having the penis cut off.

See جُبُّ.