Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

دَبِقَ بِهِ, (JK, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَدْبَقُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. دَبَقٌ, (TA,) [lit. He, or it, stuck to it: and hence,] † he was, or became, attached, addicted, given, or devoted, to it, (namely, a thing, JK,) so that he did not quit it. (JK, Ḳ.)

دَبِقَ فِى مَعِيشَتِهِ is explained by Lḥ only as signifying لَزِقَ [app. meaning † He stuck fast, or perhaps he clave to one course, in respect of his means of subsistence: see also مُدَبَّقٌ]. (TA.)

دَبَقَهُ He stuck it, or made it to adhere. (TA. [See 4.])

See also what next follows {2}.

دبّقهُ, inf. n. تَدْبِيقٌ, (Lth, JK, Ḳ,) He caught it with دِبْق [or bird-lime]; (Lth, Ḳ;) namely, a bird: (JK:) and soدَبَقَهُ↓, aor. ـُ {يَدْبُقُ}, inf. n. دَبْقٌ. (TA.)

ادبقهُ He made it to stick, or adhere. (Ḳ. [See also 1.]) You say, ادبقهُ ٱللّٰهُ بِهِ † God made him, or may God make him, to stick to it; or, it to him. (JK, TA.)

مَا أَدْبَقَهُ † How great is his attachment, addictedness, or devotedness! (JK, TA.)

تدبّق It (a thing) was, or became, sticky, glutinous, viscous, or ropy. (TA.)

It (a bird) was, or became, caught by means of دِبْق [or birdlime]; (Ḳ, TA;) i. e. it stuck, or adhered. (TA. [See also دَبِقَ.])

دِبْقٌ (Lth, IDrd, Ṣ, Ḳ, &c.) andدَابُوقٌ↓ (Fr, Ḳ) andدَبُوقَآءُ↓ (Ḳ) [Bird-lime: and the viscum, or mistletoe; and its berries, of which bird-lime is mostly prepared: the first of these words has these applications in the present day:] a kind of glue, (IDrd, Ḳ,) well known, (IDrd,) or a sticky, glutinous, or viscous, thing, like glue, (Fr, Ṣ, TA,) with which birds are caught; (Fr, IDrd, Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) in one dial. called طِبْقٌ: (IDrd:) Lth says, it is the fruit, or produce, of a tree, having in its interior a substance like glue, that sticks to the wing of the bird: the hakeem Dáwood says, [in a passage which is imperfect in the TA,] it is found upon the tree in like manner as lichen (الشَّيْبَة), but is a berry, like the chick-pea (حِمَّص) in roundness; … the best thereof is the smooth, soft, with much moisture, inclining, in its exterior, to greenness, and it is mostly found upon the oak; when it is cooked with honey and دِبْس [or the expressed juice of fresh ripe dates,, &c.], … and drawn out into longish strings, and put upon trees, the birds become caught by it. (TA.)

[دَبِقٌ part. n. of دَبِقَ, Sticky, glutinous, or viscous: so in modern Arabic.]

دَبُوقَآءُ: see دِبْقٌ.

Also Anything sticky, glutinous, viscous, or ropy; that draws out with a sticky, glutinous, viscous, or ropy, continuity of parts. (IDrd, Ḳ,* TA.)

And Human ordure; (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ;) because of its sticky, or ropy, quality. (JK.)

دَابُوقٌ: see دِبْقٌ.

عَيْشٌ مُدَبَّقٌ † [Means of subsistence] not complete. (TA.)