ذبب

ذَبَّ / ذَبٌّ

To repel, drive away, or defend someone; also to turn away a suitor.

The object may be a person, an intruder, flies, or another annoyance; the marital example is a conventional extension of rejection.

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ذُبَّ

To be possessed, mad, or insane.

A passive or intransitive lexical use reported as an extended Classical Arabic meaning.

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ذَبَّ / ذَبٌّ

To go or move hither and thither without remaining in one place; to be much in motion.

Used of a person or camel that does not stay still.

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ذَبَّ

To dry up, lose moisture, wither, become lean, or have one's complexion altered through emaciation, thirst, hunger, or exertion.

Used of lips, the tongue, plants, pools, the body, and complexion; the examples do not impose a narrower object restriction.

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ذَبَّبَ

To repel or defend repeatedly, forcefully, or with persistence.

This is the intensified or repeated Form II use of repelling and defending.

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ذَبَّبَ

To leave only a small remainder; hence, to press on or exert oneself so that nothing of a task or journey is left unfinished, and to hasten.

Used of the passing day, energetic thrusting or shooting, rapid travel, and beasts driven hard until fatigued.

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ذَبْذَبٌ

To defend one's neighbors and family.

A derived lexical use related to defending or repelling.

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ذَبْذَبٌ

To annoy, molest, harm, or hurt people.

A transitive derived use of causing disturbance or harm.

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ذَبْذَبٌ / ذَبْذَبَةٌ

To make something dangle or move to and fro; dangling, shaking, commotion, or agitation.

The movement may be that of a suspended object or of something in a state of agitation.

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ذَبْذَبَةٌ

To cause or undergo wavering, vacillation, or perplexed movement between alternatives.

Used both of a person uncertain of the right course and of a state fluctuating between two affairs.

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ذَبُّ الرِّيَادِ

A wild bull; by extension, a person who goes and comes, or habitually visits women.

The designation is connected with going to and fro rather than remaining in one place; the expression is also applied to a hastening wild bull.

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ذُبَابٌ

A bee, and by extension a similar flying insect such as a wasp.

This is a broader Classical Arabic application of the noun and is not the sense assigned to the supplied Quranic occurrences.

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ذُبَابٌ

Evil, mischief, annoyance, or harm; sometimes continual evil.

Used figuratively in expressions describing harm that befalls someone or persists from an affair.

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ذُبَابٌ

Ill luck or an unlucky condition.

An extended, attributed usage preserved in Classical Arabic reports.

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ذُبَابٌ

Plague or pestilence.

A figurative or extended Classical Arabic meaning.

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ذُبَابٌ

Diabolical possession, madness, or insanity.

A figurative Classical Arabic use distinct from the ordinary insect sense.

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ذُبَابٌ

Ignorance or deficient understanding.

Used in the expression for a person metaphorically filled with ignorance.

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ذُبَابُ العَيْنِ

The pupil or apple of the eye; also a black speck in the dark part of a horse's eye.

A figurative anatomical designation based on likeness to the fly.

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ذُبَابٌ

A sharp point, edge, or extremity, especially the point of a sword; also the pointed tip of an ear or the sharp edge of a camel's teeth.

The sword expression ذُبَابُ السَّيْفِ denotes the striking or piercing point; the other applications are lexical extensions to comparable pointed parts.

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ذُبَابٌ

The part that first emerges from a henna flower.

A specialized botanical use.

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ذُبَابَةٌ

A remainder or remnant of something, including a remnant of water, thirst, hunger, debt, or the day.

The word may denote a remaining portion whether substantial or slight; the cited examples illustrate rather than restrict its range.

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ذُبَابَاتٌ

Small mountains.

A specialized plural usage reported in Classical Arabic.

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ذَبَّابٌ

A person who repels or defends energetically.

The word may also be applied figuratively to a day in which animals are heavily troubled by gnats.

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يَوْمٌ ذَبَّابٌ

A sultry day in which wild animals are infested by numerous gnats and drive them away with their tails.

The defensive action of the animals is attributed to the day.

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ذَبْذَبٌ

The penis; also the tongue, the genitals, or, in some reports, the testicles.

These are separate anatomical applications of the same lexical form, associated in the sources with movement to and fro.

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ذَبَاذِبُ

Tassels, pendant tufts, or ornamental shreds attached to a camel litter, a camel's head, or a garment.

The term includes the fringes or edges of a woollen cloak that move as the wearer walks.

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أَذَبُّ

The tush or canine tooth of a camel.

A specialized anatomical noun or epithet.

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أَذَبُّ

Tall or long.

A Classical Arabic adjectival use synonymous with طَوِيلٌ.

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أَرْضٌ مَذَبَّةٌ

Land containing or abounding in flies.

A derived adjectival construction describing the prevalence of flies in a place.

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مِذَبَّةٌ

An implement for driving away flies, especially a fly-whisk made of horsehair.

The word denotes an instrument of repelling flies.

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مُذَبِّبٌ

One who hastens or exerts himself in travel; also a rapid or unflagging journey or a long interval between waterings undertaken with haste.

The term may describe a rider, camel, messenger, journey, or watering interval; it is also applied to a wild bull in one usage.

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مَذْبُوبٌ

A camel or horse afflicted by flies entering its nostrils; also one made fatally ill on entering a cultivated region.

The core image is harm caused by flies; the cited animal examples do not impose a broader animal restriction.

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مَذْبُوبٌ

Possessed, mad, or insane.

An extended figurative use of the derived form.

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مَذْبُوبٌ

Foolish, stupid, or deficient in intellect.

A reported Classical Arabic adjectival use; the source also records a variant spelling in one textual tradition.

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مُذَبْذَبٌ

Driven away or repelled repeatedly; rejected from one side and another.

The form is explicitly used in the Quranic expression مُذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَلِكَ, but no corresponding QAC form group was supplied for display here.

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مُذَبْذَبٌ

Wavering or vacillating between two things, affairs, or persons without attaching oneself steadily to either.

This is the motion-and-agitation branch of the derived form and is distinct from merely being driven away.

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