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زبن

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

زِبِّينٌ ذ One striving to suppress the urine and ordure: (K, * TA: [the word, with the article ال, is expl. by مُدَافِعُ الأَخْبَثَيْنِ: see 3 in art. دفع, and see also أَخْبَثُ:]) such is said in a trad. to be one of those from whom prayer will not be accepted; or, as some relate it, it is the زِنِّين, with ن [in the place of the ب]: (TA:) or it means one withholding them against his will. (K.) ― -b2- One says also, مَا بِهَا زِبِّينٌ, meaning There is not in it [i. e. the house, الدَّار,] any one: so says Aboo-Shubrumeh. (TA.)

Derived headwords

زِبِّينٌ
  1. 1.
مُدَافِعُ الأَخْبَثَيْنِ
مَا بِهَا زِبِّينٌ