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جبو ند جبى
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaجَابٍ جاب جابي A collector of water for camels: belonging to arts. جبو and جبى. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The locust (K) that collects everything by eating it; as also جَابِىءٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) The Arabs say, اـِذَا جَاآءَتِ السَّنَةُ جَاآءَ مَعَهَا الجَابِى وَالجَانِى, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ When the year of drought comes,] the locust and the wolf [come with it ]. (IAar, TA.)
Derived headwords
جَابٍ
- 1.
اـِذَا جَاآءَتِ
السَّنَةُ جَاآءَ مَعَهَا الجَابِى وَالجَانِى