عذب

عَذْبٌ ذ Sweet water: (S, O:) or water, (Msb,) or wine, or beverage, and food, (K,) that is easy and agreeable to be drunk or swallowed: (Msb, K:) pl. عِذَابٌ (O, Msb, TA) and عُذُوبٌ. (TA.) You say رَكِيَّةٌ عَذْبَةٌ [ A well of sweet water ] : and مَاآءٌ عَذْبٌ [ sweet water ]: and also مَاآءَةٌ عَذْبَةٌ [ a sweet water ]: and مَاآءٌ عِذَابٌ [ sweet water or waters ], using a pl. epithet in this last case because مَاآءٌ is a coll. gen. n., of which مَاآءَةٌ is the n. un. (TA.) And Aboo-Heiyeh En-Nemeree says, describing water, لَهُ غَلَلٌ بَيْنَ الاـِجَامِ عُذُوبُ [ Having sweet water permeating amid the reedbeds, or the thickets ]: he uses غَلَلٌ as a coll. gen. n., and therefore pluralizes the epithet. (L, TA.) ― -b2- One says also نِسآاءٌ عِذَابُ الثَّنَايَا (assumed tropical:) [ Women sweet in respect of the front teeth ]. (A.) ― -b3- And اـِنَّهُ لَعَذْبُ اللِّسَانِ (assumed tropical:) [ Verily he is sweet in respect of the tongue ]; likening his tongue to the water that is termed عَذْب. (Lh, TA.) -A2- Also A sort of trees; (K, TA;) the same that is called عَذَبٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)