Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

دبّح, inf. n. تَدْبِيحٌ, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ, &c.,). said of a man, (Ṣ, Mṣb, &c.,) He stretched out his back, and lowered his head, (Aṣ, Ṣ, Mṣb,* Ḳ,) so that his head was lower than his posteriors; (Aṣ, Ṣ, Mṣb;*) as alsoاندبح↓; (Ḳ;) and so دبّخ, [q. v.,] with خ: (Mṣb:) the doing thus in inclining the body in prayer, like as the ass does [when he is mounted], is forbidden in a trad.: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) i. e. he lowered his head in inclining his body in prayer so that it was lower than his back: (AʼObeyd, Mṣb:) or he lowered his head, and raised his posteriors, in prayer: (TA:) or [simply] he lowered his head; (IAạr, T, TA;) as also دبّخ [q. v.]: (T, TA:) or he did so in walking: (TA:) or he bent his back; (Lḥ, T, Mṣb, TA;) as also دبّخ; with which Aṣ says that دنّخ, with ن and خ, is syn.: (Mṣb:) and دبّح ظَهْرَهُ signifies he (a man) bent his back, raising the middle of it as though it were a camel's hump: erroneously related by Lth with ذ. (T, TA.)

Also He (a boy, in play,) lowered his back in order that another might come running from a distance and mount upon him. (Aboo-ʼAdnán, TA.) And one says, دَبِّحْ لِى حَتَّى أَرْكَبَكَ, meaning Stoop for me in order that I may mount upon thee. (TA.)

Also, said of an ass having a sore back, He relaxed his legs, and lowered his back and rump, by reason of pain, on being mounted. (L.)

And He was, or became, low, base, abject, or ignominious. (IAạr, Ḳ.) [And so دَنَّحَ and دَنَّحَ.]

دبّحت الكَمْأَةُ [The truffles pushed up the ground above them, or] the ground swelled up from the truffles, without their appearing (Ḳ) as yet. (TA.)

دبّح فِى بَيْتِهِ He kept in his house, or tent; not going forth. (Ḳ.)

مَا بِالدَّارِ دِبِّيحٌThere is not in the house any one, (AʼObeyd, Ḳ;) as also دِبِّيجٌ [q. v.]; but the former is the more chaste. (TA.)

رَمْلَةٌ مُدَبِّحَةٌ A gibbous tract of sand: pl. مَدَابِحُ: (ISh, Ḳ:) you say رِمَالٌ مَدَابِحُ. (TA.)