جنب

جَنِيبٌ جنيب , applied to a horse and a captive, (TA,) Led by one's side; as also ↓ مَجْنُوبٌ and ↓ مُجَنَّبٌ: (K:) or you say ↓ خَيْلٌ مَجَنَّبَةٌ, meaning horses led by the side; the teshdeed denoting application to many objects: (S, TA:) pl. [of the first, and of جَنِيبَةٌ, q. v., or only of this last,] جَنَائِبُ and [quasi-pl. n.] ↓ جَنَبٌ. (K.) One walking by the side of another; (A;) [and] so ↓ جُنَّابٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Any animal or man that is obedient, tractable, or submissive. (S, TA.) You say, أَصْبَحَ جَنِيبَهُ He became compliant to him. (A.) -A2- See also جُنُبٌ. -A3- Also, applied to a man, [app. Having a pain in the side; or having the pleurisy; like مَجْنُوبٌ: and hence, or from جَنِبَ, q. v., irregularly formed,] as though walking on one side, bent or crooked, مُتَعَقِّفًا: so in the L: in the M and K, on the authority of IAar, مُتَعَقِّبًا [to which I am unable to assign an appropriate meaning, except its modern one of lagging behind ]: so in the saying of a poet, رَبَا الجُوعُ فِى أَوْنَيْهِ حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ جَنِيبٌ بِهِ اـِنَّ الجَنِيبَ جَنِيبُ [ Hunger increased in him (lit. in the two sides of his saddle-bags); so that he seemed as though he walked on one side, bent thereby; for he who has a pain in his side walks on one side, in that manner ]. (TA.) -A4- Also An excellent kind of dates, (K, TA,) well known; (TA;) one of the best kinds of dates. (Mgh in art. جمع, Msb.)