Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

ذَنَبَهُ, (M, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَذْنُبُ} (Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ) and ـِ {يَذْنِبُ}, (M, Ḳ,) inf. n. ذَنْبٌ; (TḲ;) andاستذنبهُ↓; (M, Ḳ;) [properly signifies] He followed his tail, not quitting his track: (M:) [and hence, tropically,] † he followed him [in any case], not quitting his track. (Ḳ.) You say, ذَنَبَ الإِبِلَ andاستذنبها↓ He followed the camels. (A: there mentioned among proper significations.) El-Kilábee says,

* وَجَآءَتِ الخَيْلُ جَمِيعَا تَذْنُبُهْ *

[And the horses, or horsemen, came all together, following him]. (Ṣ [in which the meaning is indicated by the context; but whether it be proper or tropical in this instance is not shown].) And Ru-beh says,

*مِثْلُ الأَجِيرِ ٱسْتَذْنَبَ↓ الرَّوَاحِلَا *

[Like the hired man,] he was at the tails of the ridden camels. (T, Ṣ.) ذَنَبَتِ القَوْمُ, and [ذَنَبَتِ] الطَّرِيقُ, and الأَمْرُ [ذَنَبَ], and السَحَابُ يَذْنُبُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا, are tropical phrases [meaning ‡ The people followed one another, and ‡ The road followed on uninterruptedly, and ‡ The affair, or case, or event, proceeded by successive steps, uninterruptedly, and ‡ The clouds follow one another]. (A.)

See also 2.

ذنّب, (T, M, A,) inf. n. تَذْنِيبٌ, (T, A,) said of the locust, It stuck its tail into the ground to lay its eggs: (A:) or, said of the [lizard called] ضبّ, (Lth, T, M,) and of the locust, (M,) and of the [locust in the stage in which it is termed] فَرَاش, (Lth, T, M,) and the like, (Lth, T,) it desired to copulate, (Lth, T, M,) or to lay eggs, and therefore stuck its tail into the ground: (M:) or, said of the ضَبّ, it signifies only it struck with its tail a hunter or serpent desiring to catch it: (T:) or, said of the ضَبّ, it signifies also it put forth its tail (M, A) from the nearest part of its hole, having its head within it, as it does in hot weather, (M,) or when an attempt was made to catch it: (A:) [or it put its tail foremost in coming forth from its hole; contr. of رَأَّسَ.]

ذَنَّبَتِ البُسْرَةُ, (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) or ذَنَّبَ البُسْرُ, (Aṣ, A, Mgh,) or الرُّطَبُ, (Mṣb,) inf. n. تَذْنِيبٌ, (Mṣb, Ḳ,) ‡ [The full-grown unripe date or dates, or the ripening dates,] began to ripen, (Mgh, and so in a copy of the Ṣ,) or showed ripening, (Mṣb, and so in a copy of the Ṣ,) or became speckled by reason of ripening, (Aṣ, T, M, Ḳ,) or ripened, (A,) at the ذَنَب, (Aṣ, T, Ṣ, M, A, Mgh, Ḳ,) i. e. the part next the base and stalk. (Mgh.) The dates in this case are termed تَذْنُوبٌ↓ (Fr, T, Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ) in the dial. of Benoo-Asad, (Fr, T,) andتُذْنُوبٌ↓ (Fr, T, Ḳ) in the dial. of Temeem (Fr, T) andمُذَنِّبٌ↓; (A, Mgh;) and a single date is termed تَذْنُوبَةٌ↓ (T, M,* Ḳ) andمُذَنِّبَةٌ↓. (T, Ṣ.)

ذنّب الضَّبَّ, [or, probably, ذَنَبَ↓, being similar to رَأَسَ and جَنَبَ and فَأَدَ, &c., or perhaps both,] He seized the tail of the ضبّ; said of one endeavouring to catch it. (A.)

ذنّب الأَفْعَى, said of a ضَبّ, It turned its tail towards the viper, or met the viper tail-foremost, in coming forth from its hole; contr. of رَأَّسَ الأَفْعَى. (TA in art. رأس.)

ذنّب عِمَامَتَهُ ‡ [He made a tail to his turban;] (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA;) i. e. ‡ he made a portion of his turban to hang down like a tail: (Ṣ, TA:) you say of him who has done this, تَذَنَّبَ↓. (Ṣ, A, Ḳ, TA.)

ذَنَّبْتُ كَلَامَهُ [and كِتَابَهُ ‡ I added an appendix to his discourse and his writing, or book; like ذَيَّلْتُهُ]. (A, TA.) [Hence, the inf. n. تَذْنِيبٌ is used to signify † An appendix; like تَذْيِيلٌ.]

ذَنَّبُوا خُشْبَانَهُ † They made channels for water (which are termed مَذَانِب) in its rugged ground. (TA from a trad.)

ذَانَبَتْ, (AO, T, Ḳ,) written by Ṣgh, with his own hand, with ء, but by others without, (MF,) said of a mare [in parturition], She was in such a state that her fœtus came to her قُحْقُح [or ischium (here described by MF as the place of meeting of the two hips)], and the سِقْى [q. v. (here explained by MF as a skin containing yellow water)] was near to coming forth, (AO, T, Ḳ,) and the root of her tail rose, and the part thereof that is bare of hair, and she did not [or could not] lower it. (AO, T.) In this case, she is said to be مُذَانِبٌ↓, (AO, T, Ḳ.)

اذنب He committed a sin, crime, fault, misdemeanour,, &c.; (Ṣ,* M,* A,* MA, Ḳ;*) he became chargeable with a ذَنْب [or sin,, &c.]: (Mṣb:) it is an instance, among others, of a verb of which no proper inf. n. has been heard; [ذَنْبٌ being used instead of such, as a quasi-inf. n.;] for إِذْنَابٌ, like إِكْرَامٌ, [though mentioned in the KL, as signifying the committing of a sin or the like, and also in the TḲ,] has not been heard. (MF.)

تذنّب عَلَى فُلَانٍ He accused such a one of a sin, crime, fault, misdemeanour, or the like, which he had not committed, or though he had not committed any. (A, TA.)

See also 2, near the end of the paragraph.

تَذَنَّبْتُ الوَادِىَ ‡ I came to the valley from the direction of its ذَنَب [q. v.]. (A.) And تذنّب الطَّرِيقَ ‡ He took the road; (Ḳ, TA;) as though he took its ذِنَابَة, or came to it from [the direction of] its ذَنَب. (TA.)

استذنبهُ He found him to be committing [or to have committed] a sin, crime, fault, misdemeanour, or the like: and he attributed, or imputed, to him a sin,, &c. (Ḥar p. 450.)

See also 1, in three places.

استذنب الأَمْرُ † The affair was, or became, complete, [as though it assumed a tail,] and in a right state. (Ḳ,* TA.)

ذَنْبٌ A sin, a crime, a fault, a misdemeanour, a misdeed, an unlawful deed, an offence, a transgression, or an act of disobedience; syn. إِثْمٌ, (T, M, A, Mṣb,) or جُرْمٌ, (Ṣ,) or both, (TA,) and مَعْصِيَةٌ: (T, TA:) or it differs from إِثْمٌ in being either intentional or committed through inadvertence; whereas the اثم is peculiarly intentional: (Kull p. 13:) or a thing that precludes one from [the favour of] God: or a thing for which he is blamable who does it intentionally: (KT:) pl. ذُنُوبٌ (M, Mṣb, Ḳ) and pl. pl. ذُنُوبَاتٌ. (M, Ḳ.) وَلَهُمْ عَلَىَّ ذَنْبٌ [in the Ḳur xxvi. 13, said by Moses, meaning And they have a crime to charge against me,] refers to the speaker's slaughter of him whom he struck, who was of the family of Pharaoh. (M.)

ذَنَبٌ andذُنَابَى↓ (T, Ṣ, M, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) andدِنِبَّى↓ andذُنُبَّى↓ (El-Hejeree, M, Ḳ) signify the same; (T, Ṣ, M, &c.;) i. e. The tail; syn. ذَيْلٌ: (TA: [in the CK, الذِّنْبِىُّ is erroneously put for الذِّنْبِىَّ:]) but accord. to Fr, one uses the first of these words in relation to the horse, and the second in relation to the bird: (T:) or the first is used in relation to the horse (Ṣ, A) and the ass [and the like] (Ṣ) more commonly than the second; (Ṣ, A;*) and the second is used in relation to a bird (Ṣ, M, A, Mṣb) more commonly than the first, (Ṣ, M,*) or more chastely: (M,* Mṣb:) or the second is [properly] of a winged creature; and the first is of any other; but the second is sometimes, metaphorically, of the horse: (Er-Riyáshee, TA:) or, as some say, the second signifies the place of growth of the ذَنَب [or tail]: (M:) the pl. of ذَنَبٌ is أَذْنَابٌ. (Ṣ, M, A, Mṣb, Ḳ.) [Hence the following phrases, &c.]

رَكِبَ ذَنَبَ البَعِيرِ [lit. He rode on the tail of the camel, meaning] ‡ he was content with a deficient lot. (T, A, Ḳ.)

ضَرَبَ بِذَنِبِهِ [lit. He smote the earth with his tail, الأَرْضَ being understood, meaning] † he (a man) stayed, or abode, and remained fixed. (Ḳ.) [See also another explanation of this phrase below.] And أَقَامَ بِأَرْضِنَا وَغَرَزَ ذَنَبَهُ, meaning ‡ [He stayed, or abode, in our land, and remained fixed, or] did not quit it; [lit., and stuck his tail into the ground;] originally said of the locust. (A, TA. [See art. غرز.])

بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ ذَنبُ الضَّبِّ [lit. Between me and him is the tail of the ضبّ,] means ‡ between me and him is opposition or competition [as when two persons are endeavouring to seize the tail of the ضبّ]. (A, TA.)

اِسْتَرْخَى ذنَبُ الشَّيْخِ ‡ The old man's شَىْء became lax, or languid. (Á, TA.)

رَكِبَ ذَنَبَ الرِّيحِ [lit. He rode upon the tail of the wind,] means ‡ he outwent, or outstripped, and was not reached, or overtaken. (T, A, Ḳ.)

وَلَّى الخَمْسِينَ ذَنَبَا [lit. He turned his tail upon the fifty,] means ‡ he passed the [age of] fifty [years]: (M, TA:) and so وَلَتْهُ الخَمْسُونَ ذَنَبَهَا [lit. the fifty turned their tail upon him]: (A, TA:) the former accord. to Yaạḳoob: accord. to IAạr, El-Kilábee, being asked his age, said, قَدْ وَلَّتْ لِىَ الخَمْسُونَ ذَنَبَهَا [lit. The fifty have turned their tail to me]. (M, TA.)

اِتَّبَعَ ذَنَبَ أَمْرٍ مُدْبِرٍ [lit. He followed the tail of an event retreating,] means ‡ he regretted an event that had passed. (T, A,* TA.*)

[The ذَنَب of a man is † The part corresponding to the tail: and hence,] رَجُلٌ وَقَاحُ الذَّنَبِ † [A man hard in the caudal extremity;] meaning † a man very patient in enduring riding. (IAạr, M, and Ḳ in art. وقح.)

[And of a garment, The skirt:] you say, تَعَلَّقْتُ بِأَذْنَابِهِ ‡ [I clung to his skirts]. (A.)

The ذَنَبَ of a ship or boat is † The rudder. (Lth and Ṣ * and L in art. سكن. [See also خَيْزُرَانٌ.])

ذَنَبٌ also signifies [† Anything resembling a tail.]

[Hence,] † The extremity of a whip. (Mgh, Mṣb.)

And, of an unripe date, (M, Mgh,) and of any date, (M,) † The kinder part; (M;) the part next the base and stalk. (Mgh.)

‡ And ‡ The outer extremity of the eye, next the temple; as alsoذِنَابٌ↓ andذِنَابَةٌ↓ (M, A) andذُنَابَةٌ↓ (A) [andذُنَابَى↓, as used in the Ḳ voce اِزْدَجَّ, in art. زج].

See also ذَنُوبٌ, third sentence.

Also † The end; or last, or latter, part; of anything: pl. ذِنَابٌ (T) [and أَذْنَابٌ]: andذِنَابٌ↓ [as a sing.], (Ḳ,) orذُنَابٌ↓, (so in the TT as from the M,) has this meaning. (M, Ḳ.) You say, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى ذَنَبِ الدَّهْرِ † That was in the end of the time [past]. (M.) And ذَنَبُ الوَادِى andالذُنَابَةُ↓: both signify the same [i. e. † The end of the valley]: (AʼObeyd, M, TA:) orذُنَابَةٌ↓ andذِنَابَةٌ↓ andذَنَبَةٌ↓ signify the ‡ last, or latter, parts, (Ḳ, TA,) in some copies of the Ḳ, the last, or latter, part, (TA, [and so in the TT as from the M, and this meaning seems to be indicated in the A,]) of a valley, (A, Ḳ, TA,) and of a river, (A, TA,) and of time; (Ḳ, TA;) [andذِنَابٌ↓ app. has the former of these two significations in relation to a valley, accord. to Az; for he says,] it seems that ذِنَابٌ andذِنَابَةٌ↓ in relation to a valley are pls. of ذَنَبٌ, like as جِمَالٌ and جِمَالَةٌ are pls. of جَمَلٌ: (T:) orذِنَابَةٌ↓ andذَنَبَةٌ↓, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) the former of which is more common than the latter, (Th, Ṣ, Mṣb,) signify † the place to which finally comes the torrent of a valley: (Ṣ, Mṣb:) the pl. ofذِنَابَةٌ↓ is ذَنَائِبُ: (T:) the ذَنَب of a valley and its مِذْنَبَ↓ are the same; [i. e. † the lowest, or lower, part thereof;] (T;) [for the pls.] أَذْنَابٌ (T, TA) and مَذَانِبُ (TA) signify † the lowest, or lower, parts of valleys: (T, TA:) and أَذْنَابٌ signifies [in like manner] † the last, or latter, parts, of [water-courses such as are termed] تِلَاع. (T, TA. See also مِذْنَبٌ.) It is said in a trad, لَا يَمْنَعُ فُلَانٌ ذَنَبَ تَلْعَةٍ [† Such a one will not impede the last part of a water-course]; applied to the abject, weak, and contemptible. (T.) And أَذْنَابُ أُمُورٍ means ‡ The last, or latter, parts of affairs or events. (M.) You say also, حَدِيثٌ طَوِيلُ الذَّنَبِ ‡ [A long-tailed story;] a story that hardly, or never, comes to an end. (M.) And يَوْمٌ طَوِيلُ الذَّنَبِ † A day of which the evil does not come to an end: (TA:) andيَوْمٌ ذَنُوبٌ↓ has this meaning; (T, M, TA;) as though it were long in the tail; (M;) or means † a day of long-continued evil. (Ḳ.) Andاِتَّبَعَ ذِنَابَةَ↓ القَوْمِ, and الإِبِلِ, ‡ He followed [the last of] the people, and the camels, not quitting their track. (A.)

Also ‡ The followers, or dependants, of a man: (T, TA:) andذَانِبٌ↓ andذُنَابَةٌ↓ † a [single] follower, or dependant: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) and أَذْنَابٌ (M, A, Ḳ) andذُنَابَى↓ (Ṣ) and دَنَائِبُ [pl. of ذُنَابَةٌ↓] (A) andذُنُبَاتٌ↓, (so in the TT as from the M,) orذَنَبَاتٌ↓, (Ḳ,) but some state that this last is not said of men, (Ḥam p. 249,) ‡ followers, or dependants, (Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ,) of a people or party; (M, Ḳ;) and the lower, or lowest, sort, or the rabble, or refuse, thereof; (M, A, Ḳ;) and such as are below the chiefs. (TA.) ضَرَبَ يَعْسُوبُ الدِّينِ بِذَنَبِهِ, in a trad. of ʼAlee, means, [accord. to some, † The leader of the religion] shall go away through the land with followers, or dependants, (T,* TA,) and those holding his opinions. (T. [But see arts. ضرب and عسب.]) And عُقَيْلٌ طَوِيلَةٌ الذَّنَبِ, a phrase mentioned by IAạr, but not explained by him, app. means † [The tribe of] 'Okeyl have numerous horsemen. (M.)

[Also ذَنَبٌ (as will be shown by the use of its pl. in the verse here following) and] ذِنَابٌ↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) orذُنَابٌ↓, (so in the TT as from the M,) † The sequel, consequence, or result, syn. عَقِبٌ, of anything. (Ṣ, M, Ḳ.) A poet says,

* تَعَلَّقْتَ مِنْ أَذْنَابِ لَوٍّ بَلَيْتَنِى *

* وَلَيْتَ كَلَوٍّ خَيْبَةٌ لَيْسَ يَنْفَعُ *

[From considering what might be the sequels of “if,” (i. e. of the word لَوْ,) Thou clungest to the reflection “Would that I had done so and so:” but “would that,” like “if,” is disappointment: it does not profit]. (TA.) And one says,مَنْ لَكَ بِذِنَابِ↓ لَوٍّ i. e. [Who will be responsible to thee for] the sequel [of the word لَوْ]? (TA:) [or, as in the Proverbs of El-Meydánee,بِذُنَابَةِ↓ لَوٍّ, which means the same.]

ذَنَبُ السِّرْحَانِ: see art. سرح.

ذَنَبُ الفَرَسِ † A certain asterism (نَجْمٌ, M, Ḳ, TA) in the sky, (TA,) resembling the ذَنَب [or tail] of the horse. (M, Ḳ.) [الذَّنَبُ is a name applied to each of several stars or asterisms: as † The star a of Cygnus; also called ذَنَبُ الدَّجَاجَةِ, and الرِّدْفُ: and † The star beta of Leo; also called ذَنَبُ الأَسَدِ. And الرَّأْسُ وَالذَّنَبُ signifies † The two nodes of a planet: see تِنِّينٌ.]

ذَنَبُ الخَيْلِ, (Ḳ,) or أَذْنَابُ الخَيْلِ, (M,) † A certain herb, (M, Ḳ,) of which the expressed juice concretes: so called by way of comparison [to horses' tails: the latter name is now applied to the equisetum, or horse-tail]. (M.) [Accord. to Forskål, (Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. cxii.,) the Portulaca oleracea (or garden-purslane) is called in some parts of El-Yemen ذَنَبُ الفَرَسِ.] ذَنَبُ الثَّعْلَبِ † A certain plant, resembling the ذَنَب [or tail] of the fox; (M, Ḳ;) a name applied by some of the Arabs to the ذَنَبَان [q. v.] (T.)

[ذَنَبُ السَّبُعِ † Cauda leonis, i. e. circium (or cirsium): (Golius, from Diosc. iv. 119:) now applied to the common creeping way-thistle.]

[ذَنَبُ الفَأْرَةِ † Cauda muris, i. e. plantago. (Golius, from Ibn-Beytár.)]

[ذَنَبَ الثَوْرِ † A species of aristida, supposed by Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. civ,) to be the aristida adscensionis.]

[ذَنَبُ العَقْرَبِ † Scorpioides, or scorpion-grass: so called in the present day.]

ذَنَبَانٌ A certain plant, (T, Ṣ,) well known, called by some of the Arabs ذَنَبُ الثَّعْلَبِ: (T:) a certain plant having long branches, somewhat dust-coloured (M, TA) in its leaves, growing in plain, or soft, land, upon the ground, not rising high, approved as pasture, (TA,) and not growing except in fruitful years: (M, TA:) or a certain herb, or plant, like ذُرَة [or millet]; (Ḳ;) or a certain herb having ears at its extremities like the ears of ذُرَة, (M, TA,*) and having reeds, (قصب [i. e. قَصَب], M,) or twigs, (قضب [i. e. قُضُب], TA,) and leaves, growing in every place except in unmixed sand, [for حُرَّ الرَّمْلِ in the TA, I find in the M حَوَّ الرُملِ,] and growing upon one stem and two stems: (M, TA:) or, accord. to AḤn, a certain herb, having a جزرة [app. meaning rhizoma like the carrot], which is not eaten, and twigs bearing a fruit from the bottom thereof to the top thereof, having leaves like those of the طُرْخُون, agreeing well with the pasturing cattle, and having a small dust-coloured blossom upon which bees feed; (M, TA;) rising about the height of a man, (TA,) or half the height of a man; (M;) two whereof suffice to satiate a camel: (M, TA:) [a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with ة {ذَنَبَانَةٌ}. (M, Ḳ.)

ذِنَابٌ: see ذَنَبٌ, in five places:

and see also مِذْنَبٌ.

Also A small cord with which a camel's tail is tied to his hind girth, lest he should swing about his tail and so dirt his rider. (M, Ḳ.)

ذَنُوبٌ A horse (T, Ṣ, &c.) having a long tail: (T, Ṣ:) or having a full, or an ample, tail. (M, A, Ḳ.) [See also أَذْنَبٌ.]

Hence applied to a day: see ذَنَبٌ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

Also A great دَلْو [or bucket]: (Fr, T, Mṣb:) or one that has a ذَنَب↓ [or tail]: (TA:) or one that is full (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ) of water; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) not applied to one that is empty: (Ṣ, TA:) or one that is nearly full of water: (ISk, Ṣ:) or one containing less than fills it: or one containing water: or a دَلْو (M, Ḳ) in any case: (M:) or a bucketful of water: (A:) masc. and fem.; (Fr, Lḥ, T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb;) sometimes the latter: (Lḥ, M:) pl. (of pauc., Ṣ) أَذْنِبَةٌ and (of mult., Ṣ) ذَنَائِبُ (Ṣ, M, Ḳ) and ذِنَابٌ. (M, A,* Mṣb, Ḳ.) Fr. cites as an ex.,

* لَنَا ذَنُوبٌ وَلَكُمْ ذَنُوبُ *

* فَإِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ فَلَنَا القَلِيبُ *

[as meaning For you shall be a great bucket, and for us a great bucket: or, if ye refuse this, for us shall be the well]. (T.) [Accord. to the Ḳ, it also signifies A grave: but this is evidently a mistake, which seems to have arisen from a misunderstanding of a statement by ISd, who says,] Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses it metaphorically in relation to a grave, calling it [i. e. the grave] a well, in his saying,

* فَكُنْتُ ذَنُوبَ البِئْرَ لَمَّا تَبَسَّلَتْ *

* وَسُرْبِلْتُ أَكْفَانِى وَوُسِّدْتُ سَاعِدِى *

[app. meaning ‡ And I was as though I were the corpse of the grave (lit. the bucket of the well) when she frowned, and clad with my grave-clothes, and made to recline upon my upper arm: for the corpse is laid in the grave upon its right side, or so inclined that the face is turned towards Mekkeh]. (M.) [And Umeiyeh Ibn-Abee- 'Áïdh El-Hudhalee, describing a wild he-ass and she-asses, likens to it a certain rate of running which he contrasts with another rate likened by him to a well such as is termed خَسِيفٌ: see Kosegarten's “Carmina Hudsailitarum,” p. 189.]

Hence metaphorically applied to ‡ Rain. (Ḥam p. 410.)

[Hence, also,] ‡ A lot, share, or portion: (Fr, T, Ṣ, M, A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) [see the former of the two verses cited in this paragraph:] in this sense masc.: (Mṣb:) and in this sense it is used in the Ḳur li. last verse but one. (Fr, T, M.)

Also ‡ The flesh of the [portion of the back next the back-bone, on either side, which is called the] مَتْن: (M, Ḳ:) or the part where the مَتْن ends; (M;) the flesh of the lower, or lowest, part of the مَتْن: (Ṣ:) or the [buttocks, or parts called] أَلْيَة and مَأْكِم: (M, Ḳ:) or the flesh of the أَلْيَة and مَآكِم: (CK:) and the ذَنُوبَانِ are the [two parts called the] مَتْنَانِ, (M, Ḳ,) on this side and on that [of the back-bone]: (M:) or ذَنُوبُ المَتْنِ means the flesh that is called يَرَابِيعُ المَتْنِ [which are the portions of flesh next the back-bone, on either side thereof]. (A.)

ذُنَيْبٌ [dim. of ذَنَبٌ:]

[and] i. q. ذُنَيْبِىٌّ, q. v. (TA.)

دُنَابَةٌ The أَلْف [i. e. toe, or foremost extremity, also called the أَسَلَة,] of a sandal. (Ḳ.)

See also ذَنَبٌ, in six places.

And see مِذْنَبٌ.

ذِنَابَةٌ: see ذَنَبٌ, in six places:

and see مِذْنَبٌ, in two places.

ذِنَابَةٌ الطَّرِيقِ † The point, or place, to which the way, or road, leads; syn. وَجْهُهُ. (IAạr, M, Ḳ.) So in the saying of Abu-l-Jarráh, to a certain man, إِنَّكَ لَمْ تَرْشَدْ ذِنَابَةَ الطَّرِيقِ [† Verily thou didst not follow a right course in respect of the point, or place, to which the way that thou tookest leads]. (IAạr, M.)

Also † Relationship; nearness with respect to kindred; or near relationship. (Ḳ.)

ذُنَابَى: see ذَنَبٌ, in three places.

It is also applied to Four [feathers] in the wing of a bird, after what are called الخَوَفِى. (Ṣ.)

It is said in a trad., مَنْ مَاتَ عَلَى ذُنَابَى طَرِيقٍ فَهُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِهِ, meaning [† Whosoever dies] purposing to pursue a way leading to some particular end, [he is to be reckoned as one of the people thereof.] (TA.)

Accord. to Fr and the Ṣ, it signifies also A fluid like mucus that falls from the noses of camels: but this is a mistake: the right word, as stated by IB and others, is ذُنَانَى. (L, MF, TA.)

ذُنَيْبَآءُ A certain grain that is found in wheat, whereof the latter is cleared [by winnowing or other means]. (M, Ḳ.) [See also ذُنَيْنَآءُ, in art. ذن.]

ذُنَيْبِىٌّ † A certain kind of [the striped garments called] بُرُود [pl. of بُرْدٌ]; (AHeyth, Ḳ;) as alsoذُنَيْبٌ↓. (TA.)

ذَانِبٌ ‡ Following in the track of a thing. (TA.) See also ذَنَبٌ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

أَذْنَبُ A [lizard of the kind called] ضَبّ having a long tail. (T, L.) [See also ذَنُوبٌ.]

مِذْنَبٌ A long tail. (IAạr, T, Ḳ.)

And [hence, app. for ذُو مِذْنَبٍ], (T,) orمُذَنِّبٌ↓, (TA, [but see this latter below,]) A [lizard of the kind called] ضَبّ. (T, TA.)

Also, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) orمَذْنَبٌ↓, like مَقْعَدٌ, (A,) andمِذْنَبَةٌ↓, (M, TA,) † A ladle; (Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ;) because it has a tail, or what resembles a tail: (M:) pl. مَذَانِبُ. (Ṣ, M.)

And † A water-course, or channel of a torrent, in a tract at the foot of a mountain; (Lth, T, Ṣ, M, A, Ḳ;) not wide; (A;) or not very wide; (M;) or not very long and wide; (Lth, T;) as alsoذِنَابَةٌ↓: (Ṣ:) the تَلْعَة is in the lower part of a mountain (Lth, T, A) or in an acclivity: (Lth, T, Ṣ, A:) also a water-course or channel of a torrent, between what are termed تَلْعَتَانِ; (TA; [see تَلْعَةٌ, and see also مَدْفَعٌ;]) or this is termedذَنَبُ↓ تَلْعَةٍ; (T;) or it is termed ذِنَابٌ↓, of which the pl. is ذَنَائِبُ: (M, Ḳ:) also a water-course, or channel of a torrent, [running] to a tract of land: (M, Ḳ:) and a rivulet, or streamlet, (Ḳ,) or the like thereof, (AḤn, T, M,) flowing from one رَوْضَة [or meadow] to another, (AḤn, T, M, Ḳ,) and separating therein; (T;) as alsoذُنَابَةٌ↓ andذِنَابَةٌ↓; (Ḳ;) and the tract over which this flows is also called مِذْنَبٌ. (T.) See also ذَنَبٌ, in the middle of the paragraph.

مُذَنِّبٌ [app. applied to a she-camel, accord. to the Ḳ, or perhaps to a lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, as seems to be indicated in the TA,] Finding difficulty in parturition, and therefore stretching out her tail: (Ḳ:) [but accord. to Az,] it is applied to a ضَبّ only when he is striking with his tail a hunter or a serpent desiring to catch him. (T.) See also مِذْنَبٌ.

See also 2, in two places.

مَذْنُوبٌ ‡ A man followed [by dependants]. (A.)

مُذَانِبٌ A camel that is at the rear of other camels; (Ḳ;) as alsoمُسْتَذْنِبٌ↓. (TA.)

See also 3.

سَحَابٌ مُتَذَانِبٌ ‡ Clouds following one another. (A.)

مُسْتَذْنِبٌ: see مُذَانِبٌ.

Also One who is at the tails of camels, (Ṣ, TA,) not quitting their track. (TA.)