دب

maṣdar دَبِيبٌ, دَبٌّ, and مَدَبٌّ [and perhaps دَبَبٌ also].

Said of the ant, and of any animal, and in like manner of a party moving towards the enemy, or an army, and a child.

And simply: he walked. Said of an old man: he crept along, or walked leisurely and gently.

That is, of the living and the dead.

Said of a man who brings a small worn-out skin containing ticks and ties it to the tail of a camel; when one of the ticks bites it, the camel runs away, and the other camels run away with it, and then he steals one of them. Hence it is said of a thief, or a stealer of cattle.

Meaning his calumnies, or slanders, and mischief, crept along; synonymous with سَرَتْ. [See also art. عقرب.]

The same phrase is also used to mean his downy hair crept along his cheeks.

Said of a man.

Synonymous with سَرَى. Said of wine, or beverage, in the body, or in a man, and into a vessel; of a disease in the body, or فِى عُرُوقِهِ [in his veins]; of wear in a garment, or piece of cloth; and of the dawn in the darkness of the latter part of the night.

Second person دَبِبْتَ.

That is, he became such as is termed أَدَبُّ: having much hair, or much fur.

See form 1, first sentence.

For the correct explanation, حَمَلْتُهُ عَلَى الدَّبِيبِ, Golius seems to have found حملته على الدَّابَّةِ.

He (a man) raised cries, shouts, noises, or a clamour.

See دَبَبٌ.

This and شُبَّ are used as nouns by putting مِنْ before them, though they are originally verbs.

A proverb, said alike to a man and to a woman.

من شُبٍّ الى دُبٍّ is said in the same sense.

دُبٌّ: see دُبَّةٌ, in two places.

Also the bear; a well-known beast of prey; a foul, or noxious, animal: a genuine Arabic word.

Feminine with ة; plural (of many) دِبَبَةٌ and (of few) أَدْبَابٌ.

A single act of creeping, crawling, or of walking leisurely and gently: plural دِبَابٌ.

A hill, or heap, or gibbous hill, of sand; and a tract of red sand; or an even tract of sand; or, as in some copies of the K, an even tract of land; and a place abounding in sand: plural as above.

Meaning, into difficulty or misfortune, since a camel in such a place suffers fatigue.

A certain thing for oil, or ointment; a receptacle for seeds and olive-oil: plural as above.

A kind of bottle, or pot, peculiarly of glass. [From the Persian دَبَّهْ.]

And see دَبَبٌ, in three places.

A way, or road.

on this sense A mode, or manner, of creeping, crawling, or of walking leisurely and gently.

Also the same as دَبِيبٌ, meaning anything that creeps, or crawls, upon the earth, and used as a collective generic noun.

A certain pace, between that termed النَّصْبُ and that termed العَنَقُ (as mentioned under نَصَبَ, on the authority of En-Nadr); or this is termed دَبِيبٌ (as mentioned under وَسَجَ, on the authority of En-Nadr and As).

Also down; synonymous with زَغَبٌ; and so are دَبَبَانٌ and دَبَّةٌ.

Or down of the face, or upon the face; and so دَبَّةٌ, of which the plural [or collective generic noun] is دَبٌّ, according to Kr, who gives it the former meaning and says that دَبَّةٌ is synonymous with زَغَبٌ, not with زَغَبَةٌ.

Or دَبَبٌ means hair upon the face of a woman; or, as also دَبَبَانٌ, much hair and وَبَر [or camel's fur]; or both these words mean hair upon the جَبِين [or part above the temple] of a woman.

Also the young one of the [wild] cow when just born; or, when a [wild] bull is a year old and weaned, he is thus called, and the female, دَبَبَةٌ and دبان.

But instead of “and دبان” I think it clear that we should read “and the plural is دُبَّانٌ” or “دِبَّانٌ”, just as جُذْعَانٌ and جِذْعَانٌ are plurals of جَذَعٌ. See also شَبَبٌ.

See أَدَبُّ.

See دَبَبٌ, in two places.

An imperative verbal noun: a call to a female hyena, meaning دِبِّى [that is, creep along, crawl, or go leisurely]: like نَزَالِ and حَذَارِ.

The pace, or motion, of a she-camel that can hardly walk because of the abundance of her flesh, and only creeps along, or walks slowly.

A she-camel that can hardly walk because of the abundance of her flesh, and that only creeps along, or walks slowly: plural دُبُبٌ.

A deep cave, or cavern.

Maṣdar of دَبَّ.

See also دَبَبٌ.

And see also دَابَّةٌ and دِبَّةٌ.

This and دَبَّةٌ: the gourd; or the round gourd; or the dry gourd.

But Ibn-Hajar says this is a mistake of En-Nawawee, and asserts it to be the same as يَقْطِينٌ; or it is the fruit of the يقطين. The ism waḥda of the former is with ة.

According to F [and ISd] and several others, this is the proper article for the former word, the ء being considered by them augmentative; according to Z and others its proper article is دبى. Some also allow it to be written and pronounced دُبًّى, which Kz and 'Iyáḍ mention as a dialectal variant of دُبَّآء. [See an example under رِشَآءٌ in art. رشو.]

دُبِّىٌّ is from دَبَبْتُ, that is, مَنْ يَدِبُّ, and it is used only in a negative phrase. [See also دِبِّيجٌ and دِبِّيحٌ.]

A locust while smooth and bare, before its wings have grown. Mentioned in this article, but not there said to belong to it. [See art. دبى.]

An animal that is weak, and creeps along, or walks slowly: feminine with ة.

Feminine of دَبَّابٌ.

The walk of the long-legged ant.

In the T it is said that دَبْدَبَةٌ means the long-legged ant itself, but this is perhaps a mistranscription.

Maṣdar of R. Q. 1.

A kind of drum; a thing resembling a طَبْل: plural دَبَادِبُ. [See also دَبْدَابٌ.]

Milk of the kind termed رَائِب upon which fresh milk is milked; or the thickest of milk; as also دَبْدَبَى.

See also دَبْدَبٌ.

See the preceding entry.

A drum; synonymous with طَبْلٌ. [See also دَبْدَبَةٌ.]

Very clamorous; as also جُبَاجِبٌ: or both mean very evil, or mischievous, and clamorous.

Originally a feminine ism fāʿil, for نَفْسٌ دَابَّةٌ [or the ة is added لِلنَّقْلِ, that is, to move the word from the class of adjectives to that of nouns].

Anything that walks, creeps, or crawls upon the earth; as also دَبِيبٌ: an animal that walks, creeps, or crawls, whether discriminating or not; any animal upon the earth.

Qur'ān 24:44. Here, since دابّة applies to both a rational and an irrational creature, the expression فمنهم is used; if it applied only to an irrational creature, فَمِنْهَا or فَمِنْهُنَّ would be used. Moreover the expression من يمشى is used, though دابّة applies originally to an irrational creature [or rather a beast, and a reptile], because the different classes of beings are spoken of collectively. This passage also refutes the claim of one who excludes the bird from the meanings of this word.

In the last verse but one of chapter 35 of the Qur'ān it is said to relate to mankind and the jinn and every rational being, or to have a general meaning.

Its predominant meaning is a beast that is ridden, especially one of the equine kind — a horse, a mule, or an ass; or particularly a بِرْذَوْن [meaning a hackney, a horse for ordinary use and for journeying]. But as applied particularly, when used absolutely, to a horse and a mule, it is an added conventional term; it is applied to a male and to a female, and is properly an adjective. Plural دَوَابُّ.

The diminutive [meaning any small animal that walks, creeps, or crawls upon the earth: a small beast, a small reptile or creeping thing, a creeping insect, any insect, and also a mollusk, a shell-fish (as in an instance cited under مَحَارَةٌ in art. حور) and the like] is دُوَيْبَّةٌ, in which the ى is sākin but pronounced with إِشْمَام [that is, with a slight approach to the sound of kesr], as it is in every similar case in a diminutive noun when followed by a doubled letter; and دُوَابَّةٌ has also been heard, with the ى changed into ا irregularly.

See دَبُوبٌ.

A diminutive of دَابَّةٌ.

A diminutive of دَابَّةٌ.

Having down upon the face; or having much hair; and having much وَبَر [or fur]. Applied to a man; and to a camel, in the second or in the third of these senses, or as meaning having much fur upon the face; or it is the same as أَزَبُّ.

It occurs in a tradition written أَدْبَب, to make it match in measure a preceding word, namely حَوْءَب.

The feminine is دَبَّآءُ, with which دَبِبَةٌ is synonymous, meaning a woman having hair upon her face, or having much hair upon the جَبِين [or part above the temple].

This and مَدَبٌّ: the track, or course, of a torrent, and of ants: plural مَدَابُّ.

The noun is with kesr, and the maṣdar with fet-ḥ, by a rule that holds constantly, except in some irregular instances, when the verb is of the measure فَعَلَ or فَعِلَ and its muḍāriʿ of the measure يَفْعِلُ.

Here it should be observed that مَجْرًى, given in the K as the explanation of مَدِبٌّ and مَدَبٌّ, is both a maṣdar and a noun of place and of time; but J clearly explains both these words as above, and F seems, in the K, to assign the same meaning to both.

A land abounding with دِبَبَة [or bears].

Like مُعَظَّمٌ, or مِدْبَبٌ, an adjective applied to a camel, meaning الذى يمشى دبادب [apparently دَبَادِبَ; and if so, it seems to mean that walks quickly, with short steps, or that makes a sound with his feet, like دُبْ دُبْ; see دَبْدَبَةٌ. But it is written دَباْ دَباْ, perhaps correctly دَبًّا دَبًّا, creeping and creeping].