ذرب

1 ذَرِبَ ذ , aor. ذَرَبَ , inf. n. ذَرَبٌ (M, A, Msb, K) and ذَرَابَةٌ, (S, * M, A, K,) said of a sword, and a spear-head, (A,) or of a thing (M, Msb) of any kind, (M,) It was, or became, sharp, (S, * M, A, Msb, K,) and cutting, or penetrating: (Msb:) or, said of a sword, and of a spear-head, it signifies [or signifies also] it was steeped in, or imbued with, poison. (A.) ― -b2- ذَرِبَ لِسَانُهُ, aor. as above, [and so the inf. n.], His tongue was, or became, sharp [properly speaking, i. e. sharp in the extremity: (see ذَرِبٌ:) and also tropically, i. e., in a good sense, as meaning (assumed tropical:) chaste, or eloquent; without barbarousness, or vitiousness, or impediment: and in a bad sense, as meaning (assumed tropical:) profuse of speech; or clamorous: bad, or corrupt: foul, unseemly, or obscene ]: he cared not what he said. (TA.) [For] ذَرَبٌ (S, M, A, TA) and ذَرَابَةٌ (S, A, TA) signify Sharpness of the tongue [properly speaking, or, as is said in the A, tropically]: (S, M, A, TA:) and the former, (TA,) or the latter, (Msb,) [or each.] metaphorically, (TA,) (tropical:) chasteness, or eloquence, thereof; (Msb, TA;) without barbarousness, or vitiousness, or impediment; a quality approved: and (tropical:) profuseness, or clamorousness, thereof; a quality disapproved: (TA:) and the former, [or each,] (assumed tropical:) badness, or corruptness, thereof: (M, K:) and the former, (AZ, S, M, K,) or the latter, (Msb,) or each, (A,) (tropical:) foulness, or obscenity, thereof: (AZ, S, M, A, Msb, K:) and the pl. of the former [used as a simple subst.] is أَذْرَابٌ. (AZ, IAar, S, M, K.) A poet says, (S,) namely, Hadramee Ibn-'Ámir El-Asadee, (TA,) وَلَقَدْ طَوَيْتُكُمُ عَلَى بُلَلَاتِكُمْ وَ عَرَفْتُ مَا فِيكُمْ مِنَ الأَذْرَابِ (tropical:) [ And I have borne with you not withstanding your vices and evil actions, and have known what is in you of foul, or obscene, qualities of the tongue ]; (AZ, S:) [or] على بُلَلَاتِكُمْ (IAar, M, TA) means notwithstanding what is in you of annoyance and enmity: (TA:) but accord. to Th, he said, الأَعْيَابِ, pl. of عَيْبٌ. (M, TA.) [Accord. to Z,] فِيهِمْ أَذْرَابٌ means (tropical:) In them are [ qualities that are ] causes of evil, corruption, wrong, injury, or the like. (A.) ― -b3- ذَرِبَتْ مَعِدَتُهُ, (T, S, M, A, Msb,) aor. ذَرَبَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. ذَرَبٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and ذَرَابَةٌ and ذُرُوبَةٌ, (M, K,) (assumed tropical:) His stomach was, or became, sharp, or keen, by reason of hunger: (M; but only the first of the inf. ns. of the verb in this sense, and not the verb itself, is there mentioned:) [or] (assumed tropical:) his stomach was, or became, in a good, or right, state: (K; but only the inf. ns. of the verb in this sense, and in the next, and not the verb itself, is there mentioned:) and also, (M, K,) (tropical:) his stomach was, or became, in a bad, or corrupt, state: (T, S, M, A, Msb, K:) thus having two contr. significations. (M, K.) ― -b4- ذَرِبَ الجُرْحُ, (S, M, A,) inf. n. ذَرَبٌ, (S, M, K,) (tropical:) The wound admitted not of cure: (S, A:) or was, or became, in a bad, or corrupt, state, and wide, (M, K,) and admitted not of cure: (M:) or flowed with صَدِيد [i. e. ichor tinged with blood ]. (M, K.) ― -b5- ذَرِبَ أَنْفُهُ, inf. n. ذَرَابَةٌ, (assumed tropical:) His nose dripped; let fall drops. (M.) -A2- ذَرَبَ: see 2, in two places. ― -b2- [Hence,] ذَرَبْتُ فُلَانًا (tropical:) I excited, or provoked, [or exasperated, ] such a one. (A.) And فُلَانٌ يَضْرِبُ بَيْنَنَا وَيَذْرِبُ (tropical:) [app. Such a one makes a separation between us, (see ضَرَبَ,) and excites discord: يَذْرِبُ is perhaps here used for يَذْرُبُ, to assimilate it to يَضْرِبُ]. (A.)