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زبى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

5 تزبّى زُبْيَةً ذ He made a pitfall for a lion (S, Mgh, K) or a wolf; (Mgh;) as also ↓ زبّاه, inf. n. تَزْبِيَةٌ. (K.) A rájiz says, وَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ا@للَّذْ كِيدَا كَا@للَّذْ تَزَبَّى زُبْيَةً فَا@صْطِيدَا [ And by no means be thou of those who have been beguiled; like him who has made a pitfall for a lion or a wolf, and then has himself been trapped ]. (S, * Mgh.) ― -b2- And تزبّى فِى الزُّبْيَةِ, accord. to ISd, signifies the same as تَزبَّاهَا [app. in a sense different from that expl. above; meaning He concealed himself from the objects of the chase in the hollow made for that purpose: or he fell into the زُبْيَة, like تَرَدَّى فِى الزُّبْيَةِ]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

تزبّى زُبْيَةًverb
  1. 1.
وَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ا@للَّذْ كِيدَا
كَا@للَّذْ تَزَبَّى زُبْيَةً فَا@صْطِيدَا
تزبّى فِى الزُّبْيَةِ
تَرَدَّى فِى الزُّبْيَةِ