ذنب

ذَنَبَ

To follow closely, keeping to another's track; hence, for people, camels, a road, an affair, or clouds, to follow one another successively.

The source presents both literal following at the rear and extended uses for uninterrupted succession.

• Lane · entry 21757

ذَنَّبَ

Of a locust or certain lizards, to insert or thrust out the tail in behavior associated with laying eggs, mating, defense, or emerging tail-first.

The cited descriptions vary by animal: insertion into the ground is connected with laying eggs or mating, while a lizard may strike or present its tail when threatened.

• Lane · entry 21758

ذَنَّبَ

Of dates, to begin ripening or become speckled at the part next the base and stalk.

A specialized agricultural use referring to ripening from the tail or stalk end.

• Lane · entry 21758

ذَنَّبَ

To seize the tail of a lizard while attempting to catch it.

A specialized hunting expression.

• Lane · entry 21758

ذَنَّبَ

To make a portion of a turban hang down like a tail.

A figurative use based on the shape of a tail.

• Lane · entry 21758

ذَنَّبَ

To append or add a sequel to discourse or writing; an appendix or appended matter.

The verbal noun تَذْنِيبٌ can denote an appendix.

• Lane · entry 21758

ذَنَّبَ

To make channels for water in rugged ground.

A figurative extension from making tail-like channels, reported in a traditional expression.

• Lane · entry 21758

ذَانَبَتْ

Of a mare in difficult parturition, to have the fetus near the ischium, the afterbirth near emergence, and the bare part of the tail raised.

A specialized description of the mare's condition during foaling.

• Lane · entry 21759

أَذْنَبَ

To commit a sin, crime, fault, or offense; to become chargeable with one.

This is the Form IV verbal use corresponding to the noun ذَنْب.

• Lane · entry 21760

تَذَنَّبَ عَلَى

To accuse someone of a sin or offense that the person did not commit.

The construction تَذَنَّبَ عَلَى governs the person accused and may expressly involve a false accusation.

• Lane · entry 21761

تَذَنَّبَ

To come to a valley from the direction of its tail; hence, to take a road by approaching it from its lower or terminal direction.

A figurative directional use based on ذَنَب, the tail or end.

• Lane · entry 21761

اِسْتَذْنَبَ

To find someone guilty of, or attribute or impute to someone, a sin or offense.

The construction expresses judging or assigning a ذَنْب to another person, not merely committing it oneself.

• Lane · entry 21762

اِسْتَذْنَبَ

Of an affair, to become complete and properly ordered.

A figurative use treating completion as acquiring a proper end.

• Lane · entry 21762

ذَنَب

The tail or rear appendage of an animal; by extension, anything resembling a tail.

The lexicographic sources distinguish customary usage for horses, asses, and birds, but also record broader and figurative applications.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

A deficient or inferior lot, share, or position.

In the expression رَكِبَ ذَنَبَ البَعِيرِ, the literal image of riding the camel's tail denotes accepting a deficient portion.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

To stay, remain fixed, or not depart.

A figurative expression based on sticking or planting the tail in the ground.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

Opposition or competition between two people.

Used in the expression بَِيْنِي وَبَيْنَهُ ذَنَبُ الضَّبِّ, whose image is a contest to seize a lizard's tail.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

Laxness or languor in a person's lower or caudal part.

A figurative bodily use in the expression اِسْتَرْخَى ذَنَبُ الشَّيْخِ.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

To outstrip someone or something so that it cannot be caught.

In رَكِبَ ذَنَبَ الرِّيحِ, the tail of the wind represents unsurpassable speed.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

To pass beyond a stated age or period.

In the expression وَلَّى خَمْسِينَ ذَنَبًا, the age of fifty is personified as turning its tail away.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

To regret an event after it has passed.

The expression اِتَّبَعَ ذَنَبَ أَمْرٍ مُدْبِرٍ portrays following the tail of a retreating event.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

Patient endurance of riding.

In وَقَاحُ الذَّنَبِ, the tail or caudal part is used figuratively for the capacity to endure riding.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

The skirt or trailing part of a garment.

The expression تَعَلَّقْتُ بِأَذْنَابِهِ uses garment tails for its figurative sense of clinging to someone's skirts.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

The rudder of a ship or boat.

A figurative designation based on the rudder's position and tail-like function.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

In a date, the part next to the base and stalk.

This is the specialized part-name underlying descriptions of dates ripening at the tail.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

The outer extremity of the eye next to the temple.

A figurative anatomical use for the eye's outer end.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

The end, latter part, or lower terminus of something, including a valley, watercourse, period, affair, story, or day.

The sense may denote the place where a torrent finally arrives, the last part of an affair, or a prolonged and not-yet-ending course of events.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

To follow at the rear of people or camels while keeping to their track.

A nominal tail expression used for following those ahead, distinct from the general verb ذَنَبَ.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

Followers or dependants; also the lower, rabble, or subordinate members of a people or party.

The expression can contrast followers with chiefs or leaders.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

The sequel, consequence, or result of something.

A figurative use of the tail for what follows an event or statement.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

An asterism or star designated as a tail, including the tail of a horse or other named constellation.

A conventional astronomical application based on resemblance to an animal's tail.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَب

Names of various plants likened to animal tails, including horse-tail, fox-tail, lion-tail, mouse-tail, and scorpion-grass.

These are conventional plant names motivated by shape or resemblance, not one single botanical species.

• Lane · entry 21764

ذَنَبَان

A named pasture plant or herb with long branches, ears, reeds, or twigs and leaves.

The entry describes several identifications and treats the word as a collective genus-name with a singular in ة.

• Lane · entry 21767

ذِنَاب

A small cord used to tie a camel's tail to its hind girth.

A practical object named for its association with the tail.

• Lane · entry 21770

ذَنُوب

A horse with a long, full, or ample tail.

An adjectival use describing the horse's tail.

• Lane · entry 21771

ذَنُوب

A large bucket, a bucketful of water, or a bucket containing water.

The sources vary on how full or large the bucket must be; the word can also be used metaphorically for a grave or a comparable object.

• Lane · entry 21771

ذَنُوب

Rain.

A metaphorical extension from a bucket or vessel of water.

• Lane · entry 21771

ذَنُوب

The flesh at the lower part of the back, including the buttocks or the flesh beside the backbone.

An anatomical specialization; ذَنُوبَا المتن denotes the corresponding portions on both sides of the backbone.

• Lane · entry 21771

دُنَابَة

The toe or foremost extremity of a sandal.

A specialized term for the projecting front of the sandal.

• Lane · entry 21773

ذِنَابَة

The point or place toward which a road leads.

The expression ذِنَابَةُ الطَّرِيقِ denotes its destination or direction of arrival.

• Lane · entry 21774

ذِنَابَة

Relationship or nearness in kinship.

A figurative extension of closeness or connection.

• Lane · entry 21774

ذُنَابَى

Four feathers in a bird's wing after the feathers called الخَوَافِي.

A specialized ornithological term.

• Lane · entry 21775

ذُنَابَى

A route or course directed toward a particular end.

In the cited traditional expression, it denotes pursuing a way with a defined destination or purpose.

• Lane · entry 21775

ذُنَيْبَاء

A grain or impurity found among wheat and removed by winnowing or similar means.

A specialized agricultural term.

• Lane · entry 21776

ذُنَيْبِيّ

A type of striped garment.

A conventional textile designation.

• Lane · entry 21777

ذَانِب

Following in the track of something.

An active participial description of trailing or following.

• Lane · entry 21778

أَذْنَب

A lizard of the ضَبّ type having a long tail.

A descriptive animal name formed from the tail characteristic.

• Lane · entry 21779

مِذْنَب

A long tail.

A nominal designation distinct from the basic noun ذَنَب.

• Lane · entry 21782

مِذْنَب

A lizard of the ضَبّ type, understood as one possessing a notable tail.

A specialized animal designation derived from the preceding tail sense.

• Lane · entry 21782

مِذْنَب

A ladle or scoop.

A figurative designation based on the utensil's tail-like projection.

• Lane · entry 21782

مِذْنَب

A narrow watercourse, torrent channel, rivulet, or the tract through which such water flows.

The term can denote a channel at the foot or slope of a mountain, a stream between elevated tracts, or the land traversed by the stream.

• Lane · entry 21782

مُذَنِّب

A she-camel having difficulty giving birth and therefore stretching out its tail; alternatively, a lizard that strikes its tail at a hunter or serpent.

The source explicitly preserves uncertainty about the animal to which the first description applies and distinguishes it from the lizard use attributed by another authority.

• Lane · entry 21784

مَذْنُوب

A man followed by dependants.

A figurative passive-participial use based on being followed.

• Lane · entry 21785

مُذَانِب

A camel positioned at the rear of other camels.

A description of an animal trailing the rest of a caravan.

• Lane · entry 21786

مُتَذَانِب

Following one another, especially of clouds.

A figurative participial use for successive clouds.

• Lane · entry 21787

مُسْتَذْنِب

One who is at the tails of camels and does not leave their track.

A specialized description of a person following at the rear of a caravan.

• Lane · entry 21788