زغب

أَزْغَبُ ذ [ Downy; ] having upon it, or him, what is termed زَغَب; as also ↓ زَغِبٌ: fem. of the former زَغْبَاآءُ; and pl. زُغْبٌ. (TA.) You say فَرْخٌ أَزْغَبُ [ A downy young bird ]: (A:) and فِرَاخٌ زُغْبٌ [ downy young birds ]. (S.) And رَجُلٌ ↓ زَغِبٌ [ A downy man ]: (JK:) or ↓ رَجُلٌ زَغِبُ الشَّعَرِ [ a man having downy hair ]. (Msb, TA.) And رَقَبَةٌ زَغْبَاآءُ [ A downy neck ]. (JK, A, Msb.) And قِثَّاآءُ أَزْغَبُ (AHn, A, TA) (tropical:) [ A species of cucumber ] having upon it what resembles the زَغَب [or down ] of fur, which falls off by degrees when they become large, leaving them smooth. (AHn, TA.) [For another epithet of similar meaning, see 4, in three places.] ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A species of fig, (AHn, K,) larger than the وَحْشِىّ [or wild ], upon which is زَغَب [or down ]: when stripped of this, it comes forth black: it is large, thick, and sweet: but it is a worthless sort of fig. (AHn, TA.) ― -b3- Applied to a horse, Black and white; or white in the hind legs as high as the thighs; syn. أَبْلَقُ. (K.) And [in like manner] applied to a mountain, Of which the whiteness is intermixed with its blackness; as also ↓ زُغَبٌ. (JK, K, TA. [In some of the copies of the K, for مِنَ الجِبَالِ, we find من الحِبَالِ: that the former is the right reading, contr. to the assertion of Freytag app. based on the explanation in the TK, appears from its being added that the fem.] الزَّغْبَاآءُ is the name of a certain mountain in El-Kibleeyeh; (K, TA;) in some copies of the K, El-Kabaleeyeh. (TA.)