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زرب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

زِرْبٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph. ― -b2- Also A channel in which water flows; (K;) and so ↓ زَرْبٌ. (TA.) It is said in a rejez of Kaab, تَبِيتُ بَيْنَ الزِّرْبِ وَالكَنِيفِ She passes the night between the channel of water and the concealing, or protecting, place: meaning that she is fed in the enclosures for camels &c., [فِى الحظائر, thus I read for الحضائر (an evident mistranscription) in the TA,] and among the tents, or houses; not in the pasture-land. (TA.)

Derived headwords

زِرْبٌ
  1. 1.
تَبِيتُ بَيْنَ الزِّرْبِ وَالكَنِيفِ
فِى الحظائر