جبن

أَجْبَنُ ذ [ More, and most, cowardly, or weakhearted ]. (TA.) You say أَجْبَنُ مِنْ صَافِرٍ, i. e. [ More cowardly] than a whistling bird: (S in art. صفر:) or, as some say, than a thief. (TA in that art. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 326.])