جنب: جنب، يقال: جنب له الجياد بمعنى أعطاه جيادا تقاد إلى جنبه، وأهداها له (تاريخ البربر 1: 435، 2: 230، 267، 391، 431).
ويقال أيضاً: جنب إليه (تاريخ البربر 2: 292).
وجنب المركب: جره وسحبه (تاريخ البربر 2: 336).
وكان في طرف السفينة أو على جانبها أو عليها (بوشر).
جانب: تقدم (هلو) ولعلها: تقدم على طول الشاطئ أي سار إلى جانبه، مثل جانب البرَّ أي سار جانب الساحل في معجم بوشر.
تجنب منه: تجنبه، ابتعد عنه، تنحى (بوشر).
تجانب، تجانبوا: تباعد بعضهم عن بعض (بوشر).
جَنْب: جناح الجيش (بوشر).
وجنب: بجانب، بقرب، وجنبى: بجانبي، بقربي. وقعد جنبه: قعد بجانبه، قريبا منه.
وبيتي جنب بيته: بيتي بجانب بيته، لصق بيته.
وجنب بعضهم: إزاء بعضهم، بعضهم قريب من بعض.
وجنب الشاطئ: حذاء الشاطئ (بوشر).
وعلى جنب: بعداً، منتحيا، ومنفردا (بوشر).
وخلى عن جنب: أبعده ونحاه (بوشر).
وفي جنب: بالنسبة إلى (لين نقلا عن تاج العروس) (فريتاج مختارات ص55). وفي رياض النفوس (ص58 ق): إن خطاياي كبيرة، (فقال لي فأنها صغيرة حقيرة في جنب عفو الله وكرمه).
وتعني أيضاً: الذي في جانب والذي يحصل في وقت حصول غيره، ففي كليلة ودمنة (ص 244): وكان محتملا لكل ضرر في جنب منفعة تصل إليك.
ومن الجنب للجنب: من جانب إلى جانب، من طرف إلى طرف (بوشر). جَنْبَة: في ألف ليلة وليلة (2: 101): اشترى لك جنبة ياسمين، وقد ترجمها لين بما معناه سَلّة.
جَنْبِيَة: اسم كان أهل مكة يطلقونه، أيام ابن بطوطة، على نوع من الخناجر المعقوفة.
(معجم الأسبانية ص290، بكنهجام 2: 195).
وجنبية وجمعها جنابي: منحدر الجبل، خيف (ألكالا).
جَنَاب. جناب الجبل: سفح الجبل (رولاند).
وجناب: لقب تشريف وتعظيم بمعنى صاحب السيادة (رولاند)، وصاحب السعادة (هلو، بوشر)، وصاحب الشوكة (بوشر)، وصاحب السمو (هلو).
ويطلق هذا اللقب على موظفي الدولة.
(دي ساسي مختارات 1: 158، أماري.
ديب ص214) كما يطلق على أم الخليفة (ابن جبير ص224 وما يليها).
ويقال أيضاً جنابك، مثل حاشا جنابك من البخل (بوشر)، والجناب العالي: صاحب السمة (بوشر).
وجناب الله: جلاله. يقال مثلا: جل جنابه تعالى عن أن (بوشر).
ويقال مجازاً: جناب الشريعة محترم، أي جلالها (دي ساسي، مختارات 2: 94).
غض من جنابه: قصر في احترامه وأساء اليه، ففي تاريخ تونس (ص97): فلما قدم على شعبان، أنف من القيام له وغض من جنابه فكان ذلك سبب العداوة. وتجد مثل هذا الاستعمال في ص104، 118 منه.
جَنوب: وردت في معجم فوك مع جمعها جُنَب بمعنى الضحية. الجنوبان: حنوا الهودج، وهماعودان معوجان على شكل قوس يلتقيان في أعلى وسط الهودج ليسند غطاء الهودج (فيشر 2: 157).
جَنِيب: كان من عادتهم أن يقودوا خلف السلطان عددا من الخيل مجهزة بعدتها تسمى جنائب (مملوك 1، 1: 192، أماري ص448، دي ساسي لطائف 1: 65).
وجنائب: خيل، فرسان. ففي القلائد (ص190): فلما اصح (أصْبَحَ عاقد كنانب، وعاقد جنائب، وصاحب ألوية.
وجنيب عكاز: ذو عكاز إلى جانبه (ملر ص50).
جَنَابَة: نجاسة، وحال من ينزل منه منيّ، أو يكون في جسمه نجاسة (بوشر).
جَنّابِيّ. في لطائف دي ساسي (1: 183): الحضرة الجنابية، ويظهر لأول وهلة أنها لقب تعظيم. غير أني فكرت في الكلمات الاخرى المشتقة من نفس الاصل (جنب) ولذلك أرى أن المؤلف قد استعمل كلمة جنابي بمعنى نجس من استعمال الكلمة بمعنى ضد معناها.
جَنَّاب: الثقيل الشرس الذي يريد ان يأكل كما يشاء يدفع من جانبيه بمرفقيه ليوسع المكان لنفسه (دوماس حياة العرب ص 315).
جَنّابِيّة. الجنابيات: الحجارة التي توضع إلى جانبي القبر في البرية وهي تحدد جانبيه المتقابلين (بروسلارد، مذكرات حول قبور أمراء بني زيّان وغيرهم ص 19).
جانب: جناح الجيش (بوشر).
وجانب: الجزء الجانبي من الحذاء والخف (بوشر).
والجانبان: الطرفان المتعاقدان (المقري 2: 290). وجانب بمعنى سار وسحب، لا بد من ملاحظة قولهم: أنطلق إلى جانبه. أي سار في طريقه (كليلة ودمنة ص274).
أما قولهم نخاف جانبكم الذي ذكره فريتاج فقارنه بما ذكره أماري (ديب ص24): وخوفناهم جانبكم وعقوبتكم لهم على سوء فعلهم.
وجانب بمعنى: جزء، قسم، حصة.
(أنظر لين) وتطلق على الجزء الأكبر (أنظر فليشر في Gersdoy's Repetorium 1839، ص433 حيث ينقل من مختارات دي ساسي 3: 380، وبوشر في مادة.
وفي طبعة لين ألف ليلة مقدمة: 12 ص93 حيث صحح ما كان قد قاله في كتابه المعجم، (هابشت ص87).
جانب من بضائع: قسم من بضائع، وما في ملكه الأجانب منه أي لا يملك إلا جزء منه.
وفّى جانباً: وفّي جزء من دينه.
وجانب من المبلغ، جزء منه على الحساب (بوشر).
ومضى من الليل جانب: أي مضى من الليل جزء كبير (فريتاج مختارات ص44، ميرسنج ص24، تاريخ البربر 1: 148، 196، 2: 121، ألف ليلة 2: 66، 577، 627، 3: 195) وحيث نجد في ألف ليلة برسل (4: 372): جانب الجيش، نجد في طبعة ماكن: بعض من الجيش.
ويقال أيضاً: اقطعوهم جانب الوداد والموالاة، بمعنى حفظوا لهم بعض مظاهر الوداد والموالاة (دي سلان، تاريخ البربر 2: 128).
ويقال: كان من الكرم والعطاء على جانب عظيم، أي كان كريما جدا معطاء (ألف ليلة برسل 7: 259).
ويقال: كان على جانب من الحيرة، أي كان شديد الحيرة (دي سلان المقدمة 1: 75).
وجانب: سمعة، شرف (أنظر لين)، ففي رحلة ابن جبير (ص60): وكان يحافظ على جانب هذا السلطان العظيم. ومن هذا قيل: وقع في جانبه بمعنى: أزرى عليه، ولامه. (أخبار ص144) ومثله في بيان (2: 105).
وجانب: لقب تعظيم مثل جناب بمعنى: فخامة، وسمو الخ. ويقال: الجانب الكريم (أماري ديب ص106) حيث نجد في الترجمة اللاتينية القديمة (ص306).
ما معناه: صاحب السلطان، المتسلط، السيد، وفيه (ص108): الجانب العلي.
بجانب: بجنب، بقرب (بوشر).
على جانب: لا تعني بقرب، بجنب فقط، بل تعني حوالَيْ أيضاً، ففي ألف ليلة (1: 60): عملت الخضرة على جانب الجرة.
في جانب: بخصوص، ففي أماري (ص389): فأمرهم أن يصعدوا المنابر فيتكلموا في جانب الموحدين بسوء. وتعني أيضاً: خلال، في: ففي مقدمة كوزج (ص13): وصار يسوق عليها في جانب الأقطار. والضمير في عليها يعود إلى الخيل والإبل. وفي جوانب تدل على نفس المعنى، ففي تاريخ البربر (2: 249): هلك في جوانب تلك الملحمة.
أجنب: يطلق العربي لفظة أجنب على الغريب الذي ليس من أهله، ففي رحلة ابن بطوطة (4: 388) مثلا: والنساء هناك يكون لهن الأصدقاء والأصحاب من الرجال الأجانب.
وأجنب: ما كان من جنس أو نوع آخر، يقول ابن العوام (1: 102) بعد كلامه عن ذرق الحمام: وأما ذرق غيرها من الطيور الاجانبة (الأجانب).
أجنبي: يطلق العربي لفظة أجنبي على الغريب الذي ليس من أهله، ففي رحلة ابن بطوطة 345): فأني أخاف أن تدخل على امرأة من النساء الأجنبيات. وفي ألف ليلة (1: 345): فأني أخاف أن تدخل على امرأة أجنبية فتروح روحك.
وأجنبي: تابع، ملحق، مكمل، متمم (بوشر).
وأجنبي عن: لا يتصل به، لا يختص به.
ففي فان دن برج (ص42): كلام أجنبي عن العقد.
وأجنبي: الشخص الثالث. (فان دن برج ص70 رقم 1).
مُجَنَّة: طنفسه، بساط، في القسم الثاني من معجم فوك. غير أنها مَجَنّبة في القسم الأول منه. (أنظر مِجُنَب عند لين).
مُجَنِّبَة: ليس معناها جناح الجيش فقط، بل تعني جناح القصر أيضاً، ففي رياض النفوس (ص97 و): في خارج المسجد أخذ عصاه وجاء إلى العمود الذي في المجنبة فأخذ يطعن فيه بعصاه.
وجانب الحوض (المقري 1: 374). وجناح، ملحق (مملوك2، 2: 7).

جنب

1 جَنَبَهُ He broke his side: (S, K:) or he hit, or hurt, his side. (TA.) [The aor. of the verb in this sense is probably جَنُبَ, and the inf. n., accord. to the TK, is جَنْبٌ.] b2: He led him by his side; (S, A, * Msb, K;) namely, a horse (S, A, Msb, TA) or the like, (S, A,) and a captive. (S, TA.) In this sense, its aor. is جَنُبَ, (A, Msb, TA,) and the inf. n. جَنَبٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and مَجْنَبٌ. (K.) Hence, طَوْعُ الجَنَبِ: see جِنَابٌ.

جَنَبٌ which is forbidden (S, A, TA) in a trad., [in which it is said, لَا جَلَبَ وَلَا جَنَبَ] (A, TA) relating to horse-racing and to [the collecting of] the poor-rate, (TA,) means [in the former case] A man's leading, by the side of a horse that he rides in a race, another horse, (S, A, K,) without a rider, (TA,) and when the horse that he rides has become languid and weak, (K,) or when he fears that he will not outstrip upon it, (S,) or when he draws near to the goal, (A,) transferring himself to the other, (S, A, K,) in order that he may outstrip: (A:) and in relation to the poorrate, it means the collector's alighting in the most remote of the places whence the portion appointed for the poor-rate is to be collected, and then ordering that the camels or the like [that constitute that portion] shall be led to him: or the going of the owner of the property to a distance, [or aside, or out of the way,] with his property, so that the collector is obliged to go to a distance in quest of it. (K. See more in art. جلب, first paragraph.) b3: He placed, or put, at a distance, or he put, or sent, away, or far away, or far off, or he removed far away, alienated, or estranged, him, or it; (K;) as though he put him, or it, aside, or as though he walked aside; as also ↓ جانبهُ (TA.) And He pushed, thrust, or drove, him, or it, away, aside, or to a distance. (K, * TA.) and جَنَبَهُ الشَّىْءَ (S, K, *) or الشَّرَّ (Fr, Zj, Msb,) aor. ـُ (S, Msb, K;) and ↓ جنّبهُ, (Fr, Zj, S, A, Msb, K,) but this has an intensive signification; (Msb;) and ↓ اجنبهُ; (Fr, Zj, A, K;) He put aside, or away, or he warded off, from him, (S,) or he removed from him, (S, Msb, K,) or removed far from him, (Msb, K,) the thing, (S, K, *) or evil. (Fr, Zj, A, Msb.) It is said in the Kur [xiv. 38], وَاجْنُبْنِى وَبَنِىَّ أَنْ نَعْبُدَ الأَصْنَامَ [and put Thou away from me and my sons our worshipping of idols], (S,) or, accord. to one reading, ↓ وَأَجْنِبْنِى. (TA.) b4: He yearned towards, longed for, or desired, him, or it. (K, * TA.) A2: جَنَبَ بِهِ, aor. ـُ [He went aside, apart, out of the way, to a distance, or far away, with him, or it: or, like جَنَبَهُ, in a sense explained above,] he placed, or put, at a distance, or he put, or sent, away, or far away, or far off, him, or it. (K, TA.) b2: جَنَبَ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ, (S, K, *) aor. ـُ inf. n. جَنَابَةٌ; (S;) and ↓ تجنّب; (so, app., in the TA;) He alighted, or descended and abode, or settled, as a stranger, among the sons of such a one. (S, K, * TA.) One says, نِعْمَ القَوْمُ هُمْ لِجَارِ الجَنَابَةِ [Excellent are the people, they,] to the neighbour who is a stranger. (S. [See also جُنُبٌ.]) And لَا تَحْرِمَنِّى عَنْ جَنَابَةٍ Do not thou by any means refuse me because of being remote (S, A, TA) in respect of relationship. (A, TA.) [See also جَنَابَةٌ mentioned below as a subst.] b3: جَنَبَتِ الرِّيحُ, (S, A, K,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. جُنُوبٌ; (K;) and ↓ اجنبت; (TA;) The wind was, or became, such as is termed جَنُوب [i. e. south, or southerly]; (K;) it blew in the direction of the wind thus called: (A, TA:) or the former, (S,) or جَنِبَت, (TA,) the wind changed, or veered, so as to become جَنُوب (S, TA.) b4: [And hence, (see جَنُوبٌ,)]

جَنَبَ إِلَيْهِ, (IAar, K,) or إِلَى لِقَائِهِ, (TA,) aor. ـُ (K;) and جَنِبَ, aor. ـَ (Th, K;) [inf. n., app., جَنْبٌ, for the verb is said in the K to be like نَصَرَ and سَمِعَ;] (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, disquieted by vehement desire to see him, or to meet him. (K, * TA.) A3: جَنِبَ, aor. ـَ (S,) inf. n. جَنَبٌ, (S, K,) He (a camel) limped, or halted, by reason of [pain in] his side: (S:) or he had an affection resembling ظَلْع [i. e. limping, or halting], (K, TA,) but not the same as this: (TA:) and, (K,) or accord. to As, (S,) his lungs clave to his side by reason of vehement thirst: (S, K:) or, accord. to the Arabs of the desert, as ISk says, he became bent, or contorted, by reason of vehemence of thirst: (S:) and he (a camel) had a pain in his side from vehemence of thirst. (TA.) The epithet is ↓ جَنِبٌ; which is applied by Dhu-r-Rummeh to an ass. (S, TA.) b2: جنبت الدَّلْوُ [app. جَنِبَت] The bucket inclined to one side in consequence of the breaking of one or two of the thongs attacking it to the cross-bars. (L, TA.) A4: جَنِبَ and جَنُبَ and جَنَبَ are syn. with أَجْنَبَ in a sense explained below: see 4.

A5: جُنِبَ He had, or became affected by, the disease termed ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ [or pleurisy]: (S, Mgh, Msb:) he had a complaint of his side. (K.) A6: جُنِبُوا They were, or became, affected by the [south, or southerly, wind called] جُنُوب. (S, A, K.) And also, [in allusion to the fertilizing effect attributed to the wind so called,] They were, or became, affected by that wind in their cattle. (L, TA.) 2 جنّبهُ: see 1: b2: and see also 3.

A2: جنبّ, inf. n. تَجْنِيبٌ, He did not send the stallion-camel among his she-camels, nor the ram or he-goat among his ewes or she-goats. (K.) b2: جنّب القَوْمُ The milk of the people's camels became little: (S:) or the people's milk ceased; (K, TA;) or became little: or the people's camels had no milk: and جنّب said of a man, his camels had no milk, nor had his sheep or goats. (TA.) Hence, عَامُ تَجْنِيبٍ [A year of little, or no, milk]. (S, TA.) b3: جنّبت الأِبِلُ The camels, with the exception of one or two, brought forth no young. (Az, TA.) The camels did not conceive, so as to have milk. (TA.) A3: تَجْنِيبٌ [as an inf. n. of which the verb, if it have one in any of the following senses, is جُنِّبَ,] also signifies A bending, or curving, and tension [of the sinews] (تَوْتِيرٌ), of the hind leg of a horse; which is a quality approved: (S, K:) or, accord. to AO, a turning aside of his fore legs in raising them and putting them down: but accord. to As, it is in the kind legs, and تَحْنِيبٌ is in the back-bone and in the fore legs. (TA.) [See also 2 in art حنب; and see also مُجَنَّبٌ.]3 جانبهُ, (A, K,) inf. n. مُجَانَبَةٌ and جِنَابٌ, (K,) He was, or became, at, or by, his side: (A, K:) and he walked, or went, by his side. (A.) A2: Also i. q. بَا عَدَهُ; (A, K;) i. e. He was, or became, [distant, remote, far off, or aloof, from him; or] apart from him; or in a part, quarter, or tract, different from that in which he (the other) was; (TA;) thus bearing two contr. significations. (A, K.) جانبهُ and ↓ تجانبهُ and ↓ تجنّبُهُ and ↓ اجتنبهُ all signify the same, (S, K,) i. e. He was, or became, distant, remote, far off, or aloof, or he went, or removed, or retired, or withdrew himself, to a distance, or far away, or far off, or he alienated, or estranged, himself, or he stood, or kept, aloof, from him, or it; he shunned, or avoided, him, or it; as also ↓ جِنّبه (K) [and مِنْهُ ↓ تجنّب]. You say, جَانِبِ اللِّئَامَ [Remove thyself far from the mean, or ignoble; stand, or keep, aloof from them; shun, or avoid, them]. (A.) And لَجَّ فِى جِنَابٍ قَبِيحٍ He persisted in removing himself to a distance, or estranging himself, from his family. (S, A, K. [In two copies of the S, I find جناب here written with fet-h to the ج; but it is expressly said in the TA to be with kesr.]) b2: See also 1.4 اجنبهُ: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph, in two places.

A2: اجنب, (S, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِجْنَابٌ; (IAth, TA;) and ↓ جَنِبَ; (IB, K;) but the former is more common than the latter; and the latter, than the next here following; (IB, TA;) and ↓ جَنُبَ (S, Msb, K,) [inf. n. جَنَابَةٌ, agreeably with analogy;] and ↓ جَنَبَ, aor. ـُ (L, TA;) and أُجْنِبَ, and ↓ استجنب, (K,) and ↓ تجنّب; (L, TA;) He was, or became, in the state of one who is termed جُنُب; (S, IAth, Mgh, L, Msb, K;) i. e., under the obligation of performing a total ablution, by reason of sexual intercourse and discharge of the semen. (IAth, TA.) لَا يُجْنِبُ, said by I' Ab, of a man, and of a garment, and of the ground, (TA,) and of water, (Mgh, TA,) means (tropical:) He, or it, will not become polluted (Mgh, TA) by the touch of him who is جُنُب so that one should need total ablution in consequence of the touching thereof. (TA.) A3: اجنبوا They entered upon [a time in which blew] the [south, or southerly,] wind termed الجُنُوب. (S, A, K.) b2: See also 1 in the latter half of the paragraph.5 تَجَنَّبَ see 1: b2: and 3, in two places: b3: and 4.6 تَجَاْنَبَ see 3.8 إِجْتَنَبَ see 3.10 إِسْتَجْنَبَ see 4.

جَنْبٌ, a word of well-known meaning; (S;) The side, or half, or lateral half, syn. شِقٌّ, (A, K,) of a man &c.; as also ↓ جَانِبٌ and ↓ جَنَبَةٌ: (K:) or the part of a man that is beneath the arm-pit, extending to the flank; as also ↓ جَانِبٌ, because it is the side of the person: (Msb:) pl. (of the first, Msb) جُنُوبٌ (Msb, K) and [of the same, a pl. of pauc.,] أَجْنَابٌ (CK) and [of جَانِبٌ]

جَوَانِبُ (Lh, ISd, K, but not in the CK) and [app. of جَنْبٌ (like as لَيَائِلُ is a pl. of لَيْلٌ) or of جَنَبَةٌ (like as حَوَائِجُ is pl. of حَاجَةٌ which is originally حَوَجَةٌ) or of both these] ↓ جَنائِبُ (M, K,) which is extr. (M, TA.) [Hence,] قَعَدْتُ إِلَى جَنْبِ فُلَانٍ and فلان ↓ الى جَانِبِ [I sat by the side of such a one]: both meaning the same. (S.) And ↓ إِنَّهُ لَمُنْتَفِخُ الجَوَانِبِ [Verily he is inflated in the side]: جوانب being here one of those words which are used in the sing. sense though in the pl. form. (Lh, TA.) And أَعْطَاهُ الجَنْبَ [lit. He gave him the side; meaning] he was, or became, submissive, manageable, easy, or tractable, to him. (A.) And جَارُ الجَنْبِ He who cleaves to one, keeping by one's side. (K. [Differing from جَارُ الجُنُبِ, q. v. infrà.]) And الصَّاحِبُ بِالجَنْبِ [in the Kur iv. 40] The travelling-companion; the companion in a journey: (S, K:) or he who is near one; or by one's side: or the companion in every good affair: or the husband: or the wife. (TA.) And ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) with which ↓ الجُنَابُ is syn., (K,) [and sometimes الجَنْبُ, as will be seen in what follows,] A well-known disease; (Mgh;) [the pleurisy; called by the first of these three appellations in the present day;] a severe disease, being an inflammatory tumour in the [pleura, or] membrane within the ribs: (Msb:) or an ulcer, or a purulent pustule, that comes within a man's side: (S, TA:) it is a severe disease in the side: accord. to El-Hejeree, it is in either side; and they assert that when it is in the left side, the patient perishes: accord. to ISh, the دُبَيْلَــة; which is an ulcer that penetrates into the belly: or the ulcer (دُبَيْلَــة and دُمَّل) that comes forth within the side, and discharges internally; the sufferer from which seldom recovers: he who suffers from it [and dies in consequence], or, as some say, he who is afflicted by a complaint of the side (absolutely) while warring in the cause of God, is reckoned a martyr: (TA:) [soldiers in a campaign are notoriously more subject to it than persons in most other circumstances; and it is app. for this reason that] it is termed دَآءُ الصَّنَادِيدِ [the disease of the courageous chiefs]. (A, TA.) ذُو الجَنْبِ, of which ذَاتُ الجُنْبِ is the fem., signifies Having a complaint of his side by reason of [the disease above mentioned, or what is termed] الــدُّبَيْلَــة. (TA. [See also مَجْنُوبٌ.]) b2: A poet says, النَّاسُ جَنْبٌ وَالأَمِيرُ جَنْبُ [The people are a side and the prince is a side]: (Akh, S, TA:) as though he reckoned the latter equal to all the people. (TA. [This is cited in the S and TA as though it were an ex. of جنب in the sense here next following: but it seems to be rather an ex. of this word in the sense first explained in the present paragraph.]) b3: I. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [A side; meaning a lateral, or an outward or adjacent, part or portion, region, quarter, or tract; or a part, region, quarter, or tract, considered with respect to its collocation or juxtaposition or direction, or considered as belonging to a whole; a vicinage, or neighbourhood]; (S, K;) as also ↓ جَانِبٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ جَنَابٌ and ↓ جَنْبَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ جَنَبَةٌ (S) and ↓ جَنَابَةٌ. (L, TA.) It is said that the primary signification of جَنْبٌ is the part of the body mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph, and that its use in the sense of نَاحيَةٌ is metaphorical, as is the case of يَمِينٌ and شِمَالٌ; but نَاحِيَةٌ is mentioned in the Msb as the primary signification of ↓ جَانِبٌ; (MF, TA;) though its primary signification accord. to the K and ISd seems to be that first mentioned. (TA.) You say, ↓ مَشَوْا جَانِبَيْهِ and ↓ جَنَابَيْهِ and ↓ جَنْبَتَيْهِ and ↓ جَنَابَتَيْهِ [They walked, or went on foot, on either side of him]. (A, TA. *) And ↓ مَرُّوا يَسِيرُونَ جَنَابَيْهِ (S, L) and ↓ جَنْبَتَيْهِ and ↓ جَنَابَتَيْهِ (L, TA) They went along journeying on either side of him. (S, L.) And كُنَّا عَنْهُمْ

↓ جَنَا بَيْنِ and ↓ جَنَابًا We were apart from them [on two sides and on one side]. (TA.) And نَزَلُوا الوَادِى ↓ فِى جَنَابَاتِ [They alighted in the sides of the valley, or in the tracts beside the valley]. (A.) And ↓ فُلَانٌ لَا يَطُورُ بِجَنَبَتِنَا Such a one will not approach our quarter: (S:) thus accord. to AO; with fet-h to the ن: IJ, however, says, people are wont to say, ↓ أَنَا فِى ذَرَاكَ وَجَنَبَتِكَ [meaning I am under thy protection and in thy quarter]; but that the correct expression is ↓ جَنْبَتِكَ, with the ن quiescent. (IB, TA.) The Arabs also said, سُهَيْلٍ ↓ الحَرُّ جَانِبَىْ, meaning (assumed tropical:) The heat is on either side of Suheyl [or Canopus: i. e., during the period next before, and that next after, the auroral rising of Canopus; which rising began, in central Arabia, at the commencement of the era of the Flight, about the 4th of August, O. S.]: this is the greatest heat. (TA.) One also says, ↓ أَحَاطُوا بِهِ مِنْ جَانِبَيْهِ [meaning They surrounded him on all his sides; lit., on his two sides]; dividing the surrounding parts into two, but not meaning that any of these remained vacant. (Expos. of the exs. cited as testimonies by Sb, TA in art. حول.) b4: Also, [and ↓ جَانِبٌ, which is thus used in the L in art. جنح, and by many authors,] A part, or portion, of a thing; (L;) the greater, or main, or chief, part or portion thereof; most thereof; (L, K;) or a great part or portion thereof; much thereof. (L.) Hence, [or perhaps from جَنْبٌ in the second of the senses assigned to it above, conveying the idea of juxtaposition, and thus of comparison,] هٰذَا قَلِيلٌ جَنْبِ مَوَدَّتِكَ [This is little in comparison with the magnitude of thy love; or simply, in comparison with thy love]. (TA.) b5: يَا حَسْرَتَا عَلَى مَا فَرَّطْتُ فِى جنْبِ اللّٰهِ [in the Kur xxxix. 57] means ↓ فى جَانِبِه, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [O my grief, or regret, for my negligence, or remissness,] in respect of that which is the right, or due, of God! (A, Bd, TA,) i. e., (Bd,) in respect of obedience to God! (Bd, Jel:) or, in respect of [the means of attaining] nearness to God! (Fr, TA;) or, nearness to God in Paradise! (IAar, TA:) or, in respect of the way of God, to which He hath called me! i. e., the profession of his unity, and the confession of the prophetic office of Mohammad. (Zj, TA.) The saying of the Arabs, اِتَّقِ اللّٰهَ فِى جَنْبِهِ وَلَا تَقْدَحْ فِى سَاقِهِ [may be rendered (assumed tropical:) Fear God in respect of his (thy brother's) right, or due, and impugn not his honour, or reputation: or] means, accord. to the copies of the K, لَا تَقْتُلْهُ [slay him not], or, as in the L, and in the original draught of the author [of the K] لا تَغْتَلْهُ [slay him not clandestinely, or on an occasion of inadvertence], from الغِيلَةُ, and throw him not into trouble, or trial: (TA:) or, accord. to some, فى جنبه means in detracting from his reputation, or reviling him. (K, TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 240.]) A poet, cited by IAar, says, خَلِيلَىَّ كُفَّا وَاذْكُرَا اللّٰهَ فِى جَنْبِى (assumed tropical:) [O my two friends, refrain, and be mindful of God in respect of my reputation; (see also جَانِبٌ;)] meaning, in detracting from my reputation, or reviling me: or, accord. to MF, in my case. (TA.) And one says, مَا فَعَلْتَ فِى جَنْبِ حَاجَتِى (assumed tropical:) What didst thou, or what hast thou done, in the case of the thing that I want? (L, TA.) جَنَبٌ: see جَنِيبٌ.

A2: طَوْعُ الجَنَبِ: see جِنَابٌ.

A3: جَنَبٌ also signifies Short; (K;) applied to a man. (TA.) جَنِبٌ: see جَنِبَ. b2: It is also applied as an epithet to a wolf, because he pretends to halt, from guile, or cunning. (L, TA.) b3: Also A man who goes aside, or to a distance, from the beaten way, for fear of guests' coming to him for entertainment. (K, TA.) جُنُبٌ, (El-Fárábee, S, A, Msb, K,) which is sometimes used in the sing. form as pl., and has no fem. form, (TA,) and ↓ جَانِبٌ and ↓ أَجْنَبِىٌّ, (El-Fárábee, S, Msb, K,) which is said by Az in art. روح to be seldom or never used by the Arabs, but is mentioned by him in its proper art., (Msb,) and ↓ أَجْنَبُ, (Az, S, Msb, K,) are syn., (El-Fárábee, S, Msb, K,) signifying A stranger; (K;) as also ↓ جَنِيبٌ: (S:) or a man who is distant, or remote: (Msb:) or distant, or remote, in respect of relationship: (Az and Msb in explanation of the third and fourth:) [or not a relation; as will be seen from what follows:] and ↓ جَانِبٌ [as an act. part. n.] signifies one alighting, or descending and abiding, or settling, as a stranger, among a tribe: (S:) pl. of the first أَجْنَابٌ, (A, TA,) and of the second جُنَّابٌ, (S, TA,) and of the fourth أَجَانِبُ. (Msb.) الجَارُ الجُنُبُ [occurring in the Kur iv. 40] (T, S, A, Msb, K) and جَارُ الجُنُبِ (TA) The person who is one's neighbour, but who belongs to another people; (T, S, A, Msb, K;) who is not of one's family nor of one's lineage; (A;) who is of another lineage than he of whom he is a neighbour; (T, TA;) who is not a relation: (MF:) or one who is distant, or remote, in an absolute sense: (TA:) or the person who is not a relation to another, and who comes to him, and asks him to protect him, and abides with him: such has the title to respect that belongs to him as neighbour of the other, and to his protection, and as relying upon his safeguard and promise. (TA in art. جور. [Differing from جَارُ الجَنْبِ, q. v. suprà.]) It is said in a trad., هُمْ أَجْنَابُ النَّاسِ They are the strangers of mankind, or of the people. (TA.) And in another trad., قَالَ لِجَارِيّةٍ هَلْ مِنْ مُغَرِبَةِ الخَبَرُ ↓ خَبَرٍ قَالَتْ عَلَى جَانِبٍ [He said to a girl, Is there any news from abroad? She answered,] It is for a stranger coming from a journey [to give such news]. (TA.) And one says, هُوَ مِنِّى ↓ أَجْنَبِىٌّ [He is a person not related to me]. (A.) b2: Also, ↓ the same four words, (of which only the last is mentioned in this sense in the S,) That will not be led; intractable. (K.) b3: جُنُبٌ is also an epithet from الجَنَابَةُ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) signifying A man under the obligation of performing a total ablution, by reason of sexual intercourse and discharge of the semen: (IAth, TA: [see 4:]) and is used alike as masc. and fem. (S, Mgh, Msb) and sing. (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and dual (Msb, TA) and pl.; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) being regarded as quasi-coordinate to the class of inf. ns.; for the inf. n., when used as an epithet, must remain, in form, sing. and masc.: (MF in art. عفت:) or one may use the dual form جُنُبَانِ; (K;) and sometimes they used the pl. أَجْنَابٌ (S, Msb, K *) and جُنُبُونَ, (S, Msb,) and the fem. pl. جُنُبَاتٌ; (Msb;) but not جُنُبَةٌ, (K, TA,) applied to a female. (TA.) It is said in a trad., لَا تَدْخُلُ المَلَائِكَةُ بِيْتًا فِيهِ جُنُبٌ, meaning [The angels will not enter a house, or chamber, or tent, in which is] one who usually neglects the total ablution when under an obligation to perform it for the cause above mentioned. (IAth, TA.) جَنْبَةٌ: see جَنْبٌ, in four places: b2: and see جَانِبٌ. b3: Also Retirement, or secession, from others: (K, TA:) and in a trad., in which it is enjoined, used as meaning retirement from women; avoiding the sitting by them, and the approaching the place that they occupy. (TA.) You say, رَجُلٌ ذُو جَنْبَةٍ A man of retirement. (TA.) and نَزَلَ جَنْبَةً He alighted, or descended and abode, or settled, in a place aside, or apart. (S, TA.) and قَعَدَ جَنْبَةً He [sat apart, or] retired from others. (A, TA.) b4: The state of being a stranger; as also ↓ جَنَابَةٌ. (K. [Both are there mentioned as simple substs.; but the latter is an inf. n.: see جَنَبَ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ; and what next follows it: and see also 4.]) Both also signify Remoteness in respect of relationship. (TA.) A2: Also, جَنْبَةٌ, A piece of skin from the side of a camel, (S, L, K, *) of which is made a kind of milking vessel (عُلْبَة), (S, L,) larger than the مِعْلَق, but smaller than the جَوْبَة. (L.) A3: And Every kind of plant, (S,) or every kind of tree in general, (K,) that produces [new leaves such as are termed] رَبْل in the season of the صَيْف [which may mean either summer or spring]: (S, K:) or every kind of plant that produces leaves in that season without rain: (TA:) or a name given to many plants, all of them عُرُوق [perhaps meaning resembling roots, i. e. straggling, or spreading like roots]; so called because less than large trees and higher than those that have no root-stock (أَرُومَة) in the earth; comprising the نَصِىّ and صِلِّيَان and حَمَاط and مَكْر and حذر [so in the TA, but I do not find it elsewhere, and think it may be a mistranscription for حَزْر, of which حَزْرَة (the name of a certain sour tree) is probably the n. un.,] and دَهْمَآء; which are smaller than شَجَر and superior to بُقُول: all this has been heard from the Arabs: (T, TA:) or green and fresh صلّيان: (TA:) or what is [of a kind] between بَقْل and شَجَر; (AHn, K, TA;) being [in the TA وهما, but this is evidently a mistake for وَهِىَ,] of the kind of which the root remains in the winter while the branches perish: (AHn, TA:) or herbage of which the root is deep in the earth; such as the نَصِىّ and the صِلِّيَان. (TA voce خَضِرٌ.) جَنَبَةٌ: see جَنْبٌ, in four places: b2: and see جَانِبٌ.

جُنَبَةٌ A thing from which one retires, or withdraws himself, to a distance, or far away, or far off; from which one stands, or keeps, aloof. (K.) جَنَابٌ: see جَنْبٌ, in five places. [Hence,] كُنَّا عَنْهُمْ جَنَابَيْنِ and جَنَابًا We were remote, or retired, from them; or out of their way. (TA.) b2: Also, (S, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ جَانِبٌ, (Msb, * TA,) A court, or yard, or an open or a wide space in front of a house or extending from its sides: (S, A, K, TA:) and a place of alighting or abode; or a settlement, or place of settling: (A:) a mansion; an abode; a habitation; or a place to which a man betakes himself, or repairs, for lodging, covert, or refuge, in a city or town or village or other place of settled habitations; syn. رَحْلٌ: (K:) and a vicinage, neighbourhood, or tract adjacent to the place of abode or settlement, of a people or company of men: pl. أَجْنِبَةٌ. (S.) You say, أَنَا فِى جَنَابِ زَيْدٍ I am in the court, or yard, of Zeyd; and in his place of alighting or abode, or settlement. (A, TA.) and فُلَانٌ رَحْبُ الجَنَابِ, (A, TA,) and خَصِيبُ الجَنَابِ, (S, A,) the former meaning Such a one is possessed of an ample رَحْل [or mansion, &c., as explained above]: (TA:) [and the latter, such a one is surrounded by a plentiful, or fruitful, tract:] or both mean (tropical:) such a one is generous or bountiful [or hospitable]. (A.) And فَلَانٌ جَدِيبُ الجَنَابِ (S, TA) [meaning Such a one is environed by a tract affected with drought, or barrenness; as explained in the S in art. جدب: but generally used tropically, as meaning (assumed tropical:) such a one is ungenerous, illiberal, or inhospitable]. And أَخْصَبَ جَنَابُ القَوْمِ [The neighbourhood of the people, or the tract surrounding them, became plentiful, or fruitful]. (S, TA.) And أَجْدَبَ بِنَا الجَنَابُ [Our neighbourhood, or the tract surrounding us, became affected with drought, or barrenness]. (TA from a trad.) b3: رَجُلٌ لَيِّنُ الجَنَابِ [perhaps a mistranscription for الجَانِبِ] (tropical:) A man easy to deal with, compliant, or obsequious. (A.) b4: [الجَنَابُ is also a title often given by writers of letters and the like to any great man to whom others betake themselves, or repair, for protection; and sometimes to God; meaning (tropical:) The object of recourse; the refuge; the asylum: similar to الحَضْرَةُ, q. v., and used in the same manner, i. e., alone, and, without the article, prefixed to the name of the person to whom it is applied, or to a pronoun; but the latter is generally considered as implying greater respect than the former.]

الجُنَابُ i. q. ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ: see جَنْبُ. (K.) جِنَابٌ A cord tied to the head and neck of a beast, by which he is led, or drawn. (KL.) [Hence,] فَرَسٌ طَوْعُ الجَنَابِ A horse easily led; or easy to be led; tractable; [obedient to the جناب;] (S, A, K, TA;) as also ↓ طَوْعُ الجَنَبِ. (TA. [See 1, near the beginning.]) جَنُوبٌ, of the fem. gender, and, accord. to Sb, both a subst. and an epithet, [so that one says رِيحٌ جَنُوبٌ, as well as جَنُوبٌ alone and رِيحُ الجَنُوبِ,] (TA,) [The south wind: or a southerly wind:] the wind that is opposite to that called the شَمَال: (S, K:) [consequently, the wind that blows from the direction of the south pole, accord. to the S;] the wind that blows from the direction of the left hand of a person standing opposite to the kibleh [by which is here meant that corner of the Kaabeh in which is set the Black Stone; which corner is towards the east]: (Th, TA:) or the wind that blows from the quarter between the place where Canopus rises [S. 29? E. in central Arabia] and the place where the same star sets [S. 29? W. in the same latitude]: ('Omárah, TA:) or from the quarter between the place where Canopus rises and the place where the sun sets in winter [W. 26? S. in central Arabia]: (As, TA:) or it is a hot wind, that blows in every season; blowing from that part of the tract between the quarter whence blows the east wind (الصَّبَا) and that whence blows the west wind (الدَّبُور) which is next to the place where Canopus rises: (T, TA:) or the wind that blows from the quarter between the place where Canopus rises and that where the Pleiades set [W. 26? N. in central Arabia]: (IAar, K:) [the points whence it usually blows seem to differ somewhat in different parts:] As says that the جنوب is attended by good, and by fecundating influence; and the شمال by drying up [of the earth &c.]: (TA:) accord. to IAar, it is hot in every place, except in Nejd, where it is cold, or cool: (MF:) pl. جَنَائِبُ (T, K) and [of pauc.]

أَجْنُبٌ. (T, TA.) b2: One says, of two persons, when they are on terms of sincere friendship, رِيحُهُمَا جَنُوبٌ (assumed tropical:) [Their wind is south, or southerly]; and when they are separated, شَمَلَتْ رِيحُهُمَا (assumed tropical:) [Their wind has become north, or northerly]. (TA.) جَنِيبٌ, applied to a horse and a captive, (TA,) Led by one's side; as also ↓ مَجْنُوبٌ and ↓ مُجَنَّبٌ: (K:) or you say ↓ خَيْلٌ مَجَنَّبَةٌ, meaning horses led by the side; the teshdeed denoting application to many objects: (S, TA:) pl. [of the first, and of جَنِيبَةٌ, q. v., or only of this last,] جَنَائِبُ and [quasi-pl. n.] ↓ جَنَبٌ. (K.) One walking by the side of another; (A;) [and] so ↓ جُنَّابٌ. (K.) b2: Any animal or man that is obedient, tractable, or submissive. (S, TA.) You say, أَصْبَحَ جَنِيبَهُ He became compliant to him. (A.) A2: See also جُنُبٌ.

A3: Also, applied to a man, [app. Having a pain in the side; or having the pleurisy; like مَجْنُوبٌ: and hence, or from جَنِبَ, q. v., irregularly formed,] as though walking on one side, bent or crooked, مُتَعَقِّفًا: so in the L: in the M and K, on the authority of IAar, مُتَعَقِّبًا [to which I am unable to assign an appropriate meaning, except its modern one of lagging behind]: so in the saying of a poet, رَبَا الجُوعُ فِى أَوْنَيْهِ حَتَّى كَأَنَّهُ جَنِيبٌ بِهِ إِنَّ الجَنِيبَ جَنِيبُ [Hunger increased in him (lit. in the two sides of his saddle-bags); so that he seemed as though he walked on one side, bent thereby; for he who has a pain in his side walks on one side, in that manner]. (TA.) A4: Also An excellent kind of dates, (K, TA,) well known; (TA;) one of the best kinds of dates. (Mgh in art. جمع, Msb.) جَنَابَةٌ: see جَنْبٌ, in four places: and see جَانِبٌ.

A2: See also جَنْبَةٌ. b2: Accord. to IAth, its primary signification is Distance: and hence it signifies The state of him who is under the obligation of performing a total ablution, by reason of sexual intercourse and discharge of the semen. (TA.) b3: The sperma genitalis [itself]. (K. [But in a marginal note in my copy of that work I find this last signification rejected as erroneous.]) A3: See also the next paragraph.

جَنِيبَةٌ A led horse or mule or ass; (S, TA;) a horse that is led [by one's side], not ridden: (Msb:) pl. جَنَائِبُ. (A, TA.) b2: جَنِيبَتَا البَعِيرِ The [two equal] loads on the two sides of the camel. (K.) b3: [Hence, app.,] اِتَّقِ اللّٰهَ الَّذِى لَا جَنيبَةَ لَهُ (tropical:) Fear thou God, to whom there is no equal. (A, TA.) b4: Also جَنِيبُةٌ, (S,) or ↓ جَنَابَةٌ, (K,) or both, (TA,) A she-camel that one gives [or lends] to people, (S, M, K,) with money, (M, TA,) in order that they may bring corn or other provision for him; (S, M, K;) also called عَلِيقَةٌ: pl. جَنَائِبُ. (S.) A2: Also, (Kr, M, K,) and خَبِيبَةٌ, (M, TA,) The wool of a ثَنِّى [or sheep in its third year]: (Kr, M, K:) it is better and cleaner than what is termed عَقِيقَة, which is the wool of a جَذَع [or sheep in or before its second year]. (TA.) جَنُوبِىٌّ Of, or relating to, the quarter of the wind termed the جَنُوب; south, or southerly.]

جَنَائِبٌ as an extr. pl.: see جَنْبٌ, first sentence.

جُنَّابٌ: see جَنِيبٌ.

جَانِبٌ; pl. جَوَانِبُ: see جَنْبٌ, in eleven places. [Hence, لَانَ جَانِبُهُ (assumed tropical:) He was, or became, gentle, easy to deal with, compliant, or obsequious. and رَجُلٌ لَيِّنُ الجَانِبِ (assumed tropical:) A man who is gentle, easy to deal with, compliant, or obsequious; contr. of غَلِيظُ الجَانِبِ; see art. غلظ: and see جَنَابٌ.

And] تُزَنُّ بِلِينِ الجَانِبِ (assumed tropical:) [She is suspected of easiness, or compliance], (K in art. لمس,) towards him who desires of her that he may lie with her. (TA in that art.) [Hence also,] جَانِبَا الأَنْفِ (CK) and ↓ جَنَابَتَا and ↓ جَنْبَتَا and ↓ جَنَبَتَا (K) The two sides of the nose: (K:) or the two lines that surround the two sides of the nose of a doe-gazelle: (Sb, TA:) pl. [of the second, agreeably with analogy,] جَنَائِبُ. (TA.) b2: See also جَنَابٌ. [It often signifies The vicinage or neighbourhood of a people &c.: and a region or quarter or tract of a people or country: like ناحية. b3: The bank of a river; and any bank, or steep acclivity. b4: and A limit, bound, or boundary: see a tropical usage of its pl. (جَوَانِبُ) voce. حِنْوٌ. b5: And عَلَى جَانِبٍ means Beside, aside, or apart; and so جَانِبًا, and فِى جَانِبٍ. b6: جَانِبٌ مِنْ مَالٍ, in posi-classical writings, means A portion, and particularly a large portion, of property: and جَانِبٌ alone, in the same, a sum, and particularly a large sum, of money. b7: The latter, also, in post-classical writings, signifies, like جَنْبٌ, q. v., (assumed tropical:) A man's honour, or reputation, which should be preserved inviolate; so used in the K voce عِرْضٌ, in an explanation of the latter word taken from IAth; i. q. نَامُوسٌ and حُرْمَةٌ, as in the TK in that case.]

A2: Avoided and despised. (K, TA.) b2: [Hence, perhaps, دَعْ كَذَا جَانِبًا Let thou, or leave thou, such a thing alone: see an ex. voce أَوٌّ.] b3: See also جُنُبٌ, in four places. b4: And see مُجَنَّبٌ.

أَجْنَبُ: see جُنُبٌ, in two places.

أَجْنَبِىٌّ: see جُنُبٌ, in three places b2: You say also, هُوَ أَجْنَبِىٌّ مِنْ كَذَا, (A,) or عِنْ كذا, (TA,) (tropical:) He has no concern nor acquaintance with such a thing. (A, TA.) مَجْنَبٌ (S, AAF, K) and ↓ مِجْنَبٌ (AAF, K) Much (A'Obeyd, S, AAF, K) of good (A'Obeyd, K) and of evil. (K.) You say, إِنَّ عِنْدَنَا لَخَيْرًا مَجْنَبًا Verily with us is much good, and شَرًّا مَجْنَبًا much evil. (S.) And طَعَامٌ مَجْنَبٌ means Much [wheat or food]. (Sh, TA.) مُجْنِبٌ: see what next follows.

مِجْنَبٌ A shield; (S, A, K;) because it wards off from its possessor what is displeasing to him; (A, TA;) also with damm to the م [app. ↓ مُجْنِبٌ, act. part. n. of 4]. (K.) b2: A thing by which a person or thing is veiled, concealed, or hidden; a veil, curtain, or covering; (K, TA;) for a house, or chamber, or tent. (TA.) b3: A thing like a door, upon which the gatherer of honey stands; (K, TA;) he being let down [upon it] by means of ropes to [the place of] the honey [in the face of a rock or mountain]. (TA.) b4: A thing (شَبَحٌ [app. here meaning a wooden implement]) resembling a comb without teeth (K, TA) and thinedged in its lowest part, (TA,) with which earth is raised upon, or against, the أَعْضَاد and فُلْجَان [or raised borders of watering-troughs or the like, and streamlets for irrigation]. (K, TA. [In the CK, الفِلْجانِ is put for الفُلْجانِ.]) b5: The extreme part of the territory of the foreigners towards that of the Arabs: (S, K:) and the nearest part of the territory of the Arabs to that of the foreigners. (S) A2: See also مَجْنَبٌ.

مُجَنَّبٌ; and its fem., with ة: see جَنِيبٌ. b2: Also, the former, (TA,) or ↓ جَانِبٌ, (K, [but this is said in the TA to be a mistake,]) A horse wide in the space between the two kind legs, (K, TA,) without what is termed فَجَجٌ [which is an awkward kind of straddling, with the hocks wide apart]: it is a quality approved. (TA. [See also 2; and see مُحَنَّبٌ.]) مُجَنِّبٌ A man whose sheep or goats [&c.] have few young ones; [and therefore, having little milk;] (TA in art. يسر;) contr. of مُيَسَرٌ. (S and TA in that art. [See also 2.]) مُجَنَّبَةٌ The van, or fore part, (K, TA,) of an army. (TA.) المُجَنِّبَتَانِ The right and left wings of an army: (K: [Golius has erroneously written مِجْنَبَتَانِ, and has given J as the authority instead of the K:]) or مُجَنَّبَةٌ signifies a portion of an army (كَتِيبَةٌ) that takes one of the two sides of a way: but the former meaning is the more correct. (IAar, TA.) مَجْنُوِبٌ pass. part. n. of 1 [q. v.]. b2: See also جنِيبٌ. b3: Also Affected by the disease termed ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ [or pleurisy]: (S, Mgh, Msb, TA:) and said to mean also having a complaint of his side, absolutely. (TA.) b4: And Affected by the [south, or southerly, wind called] جَنُوب. (S, TA.) [And Affected by that wind in one's cattle: see 1, last sentence.] سَحَابَةٌ مَجْنُوبَةٌ A cloud brought by the blowing of that wind. (S, A, K.) The saying of Aboo-Wejzeh, مَجْنُوبَةُ الأُنْسِ مَشْمُولٌ مَوَاعِدُهَا means Her familiarity passes away with the جَنُوب [or south-wind], and her promises pass away with the شَمَال [or north wind]. (IAar, TA.)

جردب

Q. 1 جَرْدَبَ [from جَرْدَبَانُ] He put his hand upon the food (K, TA) that was before him on the table, (TA,) in order that no other person might take it: (K, TA:) or he ate with his right hand, and prevented [others from eating] with his left hand: (IAar, K:) also, (K,) or جردب عَلَى الطَّعَامِ, (TA,) he ate greedily, gluttonously, or voraciously: (K, TA:) or جردب فِى الطَّعَامِ he put his left hand upon food that was before him on the table, in order that no other person might take it; as also جَرْدَمَ: (Yaakoob, S:) or جردب مَا فِى الإِنَآءِ he ate, and made an end of, devoured, or consumed, what was in the vessel; as also جردم [q. v.]. (Sh, TA.) جَرْدَبِىٌّ: see what next follows, in two places.

جَرْدَبَانٌ, an arabicized word, (S, K,) from the Persian, (S,) originally گِرْدَهْ بَانْ “guardian of the cake of bread,” (S, K,) and جُرْدُبَانٌ and ↓ جَرْدَبِىٌّ and ↓ مُجَرْدِبٌ, (K,) One who puts his hand, (K,) or who puts his left hand, (S,) upon food, (K,) or upon a thing that is before him on the table, (S,) in order that no other person may take it: (S, K:) or who eats with his right hand, and prevents [others from eating] with his left hand: and one who eats greedily, gluttonously, or voraciously: or the first and ↓ third signify, (K, TA,) or signify also, (tropical:) a spunger; (K, TA;) because of his greediness, gluttony, or voraciousness, and his boldness. (TA.) A poet says, (namely, ElGhanawee, TA voce جَرْــدَبِيلٌ,) إِذَا مَا كُنْتَ فِى قَوْمٍ شَهَاوَى

فَلَا تَجْعَلْ شِمَالَكَ جَرْدَبَانَا [When thou art among a greedy company of men, put not thy left hand upon the food as a جردبان]: (Fr, S:) or the last word is جَرْــدَبِيلَــا, meaning, (accord. to Sh, as also جَرْدَبَان, TA voce جردبيل,) one that takes a fragment [of food] with his left hand, and eats with his right hand, and, when what the party have is consumed, eats what is in his left hand. (TA.) مُجَرْدِبٌ: see جَرْدَبَانٌ.

دلب

دُلْبٌ A kind of tree; (S, and so in some copies of the K;) the tree called the عَيْثَم [or عَيْثَام], (T,) or the غَيْثَان [probably a mistranscription for عَيْثَام]: (M:) or the صِنَّار or صِنَار [i. e. the plane-tree]; (T, M, K, accord. to different copies; in some copies of the K explained as the صنار; in other copies, as a kind of tree, and the صنار;) which is most like to it [referring to the عيثم]; (T;) or which is most likely; (M;) a kind of great tree, (Mgh,) having neither blossom nor fruit, the leaves of which are serrated (M, Mgh) and wide, resembling those of the vine, (M,) called in Persian صِنَار [or rather چَنَارْ]: (Mgh:) in the [Kitáb en-] Nebát, [or Book of Plants, of AHn,] the [tree called] صنار, which is a Persian word that has become current in the language of the Arabs: it grows large and wide: and some say that it is called the عَيْثَام: (TT:) accord. to Ibn-El-Kutbee, it is a great, well-known, tree, the leaves of which resemble those of the خِرْوَع [or palma Christi], except in being smaller, and are bitter in taste, and astringent; having small blossoms: (TA:) [see also De Sacy's “ Abdallatif,” p. 80: and his “ Chrest. Arabs,” sec. ed., p. 394 (173 of the Arabic text) and the notes thereon: the word is a coll. gen. n.:] n. un. with نَوَاقِيس. (S, M, K.) The نَاقُوس [pl. of هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّرْبَةِ بِمُعَالَجَةِ الدُّلْبَةِ, answering to the Christians the purpose of churchbells,] are made of the wood of this tree: whence the saying, هُوَ مِنْ أَهْلِ الدُّرْبَةِ بِمُعَالَجَةِ الدُّلْبَةِ [He is of the people who are accustomed to ply the wood of the plane-tree], meaning he is a Christian. (A.) A2: الدُّلْبُ [or, as in a copy of the T, accord. to the TT, الدَّلْبُ,] A certain race of the blacks, (T, K,) of Es-Sind: [said to be] formed by transposition from الدَّيْبُلُ. (T.) دُلْبَةٌ n. un. of دُلْبٌ [q. v.]. (S, M, K.) A2: And Blackness, (IAar, T, K,) like لُعْسَةٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) دَالِبٌ A coal that will not become extinguished. (K.) دُولَابٌ, (S,) or دَوْلَابٌ, (A, Mgh,) or each of these, (M, Msb, K,) of which the latter is the more chaste, (Msb, K,) an arabicized word, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) from the Persian [دُولْ آبْ dól-áb]; (S, M, Msb;) but some say it is Arabic; (Msb;) [A kind of water-wheel;] a machine that is turned by a horse or the like; (Mgh, Msb;) a thing formed like the نَاعُورَة, with which water is drawn, (M, A, K,) for irrigating land [&c.]: (A:) or, more correctly, the same as the ناعورة; vulgarly called سَاقِيَة: (TA:) [it mainly consists of a vertical wheel, which raises the water in earthern pots, these being attached to cords, and forming a continuous series; a second vertical wheel, fixed to the same axis as the former, with cogs; and a large, horizontal, cogged wheel, which, being turned by a pair of bulls or cows or by a single beast, puts and keeps in motion the two other wheels and the pots:] pl. دَوَالِيبُ; (S, M, A;) for which دَوَالِى occurs in poetry: (M:) [or rather this (occurring at the end of a verse, and with the article ال,) is pl. of دَالِيَةٌ.]

b2: It has also other meanings, not mentioned in the K. (TA.) [Nor are they mentioned in the TA. Among other meanings used in the present day, are the following. b3: A machine: particularly any machine with a rotatory motion. b4: A cupboard. b5: And A machination; an artifice; a trick; or a fraud.]

أَرْضٌ مَدْلَبَةٌ A land containing, (S,) or abounding with, (K,) the kind of trees called دُلْب. (S, K.)

سلع

1 سَلَعَ رَأْسَهُ, aor. ـَ (S, Msb,) inf. n. سَلْعٌ, (S, TA,) He clave, or split, his head, [i. e., the skin thereof, (see سَلْعَةٌ,)] (S, Msb, TA,) by striking it, with a staff, or stick. (TA.) A2: سَلِعَتْ, قَدَمَهُ, (S, K, *) aor. ـَ inf. n. سَلَعٌ, (S, K,) His foot became chapped, or cracked, (S, K,) in its upper part and in its under, like زَلِعَتْ. (S, TA.) [See also 5.] b2: سَلَعَ جِلْدُهُ بِالنَّارِ, [so in the L and TA, app. a mistranscription for سَلِعَ,] inf. n. سَلَعٌ, His skin became burned by fire so that the mark thereof was seen upon it. (L, TA.) b3: سَلِعَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. سَلَعٌ, He was, or became, affected with بَرَص [i. e. leprosy, particularly the white, malignant kind thereof]. (IDrd, K.) 2 تَسْلِيعٌ [inf. n. of سَلَّعَ as used in the phrase سلّع البَقَرَ, or ثِيرَانَ الوَحْشِ, (see مُسَلَّعَةٌ,)] signifies a practice which was observed in the Time of Ignorance, when the people were afflicted with drought, or barrenness of the earth; which was The hanging the [kind of tree, or plant, called]

سَلَع, with the [species of swallow-wort called] عُشَر, to wild bulls, and sending them down from the mountains, having kindled fire in the سلع and عشر; seeking thereby to obtain rain: (K, TA:) or the loading the backs of those animals with the fire-wood of the سلع and عشر, then kindling fire therein; seeking to obtain rain by the flame of the fire, which was likened to the gleaming of lightning. (TA.) [See also سَلَعٌ, where a meaning somewhat different from those above is indicated.]) 4 اسلع He (a man, TA) had a [wound in the head, such as is termed] شَجَّة, (K, TA,) i. e., a سَلْعَة: (TA:) or he had a [kind of ulcer in the belly, called] دُبَيْلَــة. (TA.) 5 تسلّع عَقِبُهُ His heel became chapped, or cracked. (Sgh, K.) [See also 1; and see 7.]7 انسلع It clave, or split, or slit, in an intrans. sense. (S, K.) [See also 1, and 5.]

سَلْعٌ A chap, or crack, in the human foot: pl. سُلُوعٌ. (S, K.) b2: See also the next paragraph, in two places.

سِلْعٌ A cleft, or fissure, in a mountain, (Lh, IAar, Yaakoob, S, K,) having the form of a crack; (TA;) as also ↓ سَلْعٌ, (S, K,) accord. to some: (S, TA:) pl. [of either] أَسْلَاعٌ (Yaakoob, S, K) and (of the latter, TA) سُلُوعٌ. (K.) A2: Also A like, or fellow; (AA, L, K;) and so ↓ سَلْعٌ: (L, TA:) pl. أَسْلَاعٌ. (IAar, L, K.) Yousay, هٰذَا سِلْعُ هٰذَا This is the like of this. (TA.) And غُلَامَانِ سِلْعَانِ Two boys, or young men, that are fellows, or equals in age: and غِلْمَانٌ أَسْلَاعٌ. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) And أَعْطَاهُ أَسْلَاعَ إِبِلِهِ He gave him the likes, or fellows, of his camels. (L.) A3: And the pl. أَسْلَاعٌ signifies also The portions of flesh that cling to the نَسَيَانِ [or two sciatic veins] of a mare when she is fat. (Sgh, K.) سَلَعٌ [originally inf. n. of سَلِعَ, q. v.,] Marks left by fire upon the skin. (TA.) A2: A certain kind of bitter tree; (S, K;) which, in the Time of Ignorance, was used in one or the other of the manners described above in the explanations of تَسْلِيعٌ; (K, TA;) or they used, in the case of drought, or barrenness of the earth, to hang somewhat of this tree and of the عُشَر to the tails ذُنَابَى [a sing. used as a pl.]) of [wild] bulls or cows, then to kindle fire therein, and make them to ascend upon the mountain; and thus, they assert, they used to obtain rain: (S, TA:) the author of the K says that J has made a mistake in saying ذنابى, in the above-cited passage; that he should have said أَذْنَاب; but others had made this remark before the author of the K; and 'Abd-El-Kádir Ibn-'Omar El-Baghdádee says that the mistake is to be imputed to these, and not to J, who has only used a sing. in the sense of a pl., like as الدُّبُرَ is used in the Kur [liv. 45], for الأَدْبَارَ: (MF, TA:) AHn cites an Arab of the desert, of the سَرَاة, as saying that the سلع grows near to a tree, and then clings to it, and climbs it, with long, green, leafless shoots, twining upon the branches and interweaving themselves, and having a fruit like bunches of grapes, which is small, and, when ripe, becomes black, and is eaten only by the monkeys, or apes, not by men, nor by the beasts that are left to pasture at their pleasure; and adding, I have not tasted it, but I think that it is bitter; and when it is broken, there flows from it a viscous fluid, clear, and having strings: such is the description of the man of the سراة: (TA:) or it is a certain poisonous plant, (K, TA,) not to be tasted, like زَرْع [here meaning wheat or barley] when it first comes forth, scantily scattered in the ground, and having a small, yellow, prickly leaf, its prickles being downy; it is a herb, or leguminous plant, which spreads itself upon the surface of the ground, like [the plant called] رَاحَةُ الكَلْبِ, having no root, and it is not improbable that the ostrich may feed upon it, notwithstanding its bitterness, for it sometimes feeds upon the colocynth: (Aboo-Ziyád, TA:) or it is a species of aloes: (K:) or a herb, or leguminous plant, (K, TA,) of those termed ذُكُور [that are hard and thick, or thick, and inclining to bitterness, or thick and rough], (TA,) of bad, or nauseous, or disgusting, taste: (K, TA:) so says Aboo-Nasr: (TA:) [Forskål found this name applied in El-Yemen to the sælanthus quadragonus: (Flora Ægypt. Arab., pp. cv. and 33:) and the cacalia sonchifolia: (Ibid., p. cxix.:) and the name of سَع أَبْيَض, or سَلَع البَقَر, to the senecio hadiensis. (Ibid., pp. cxix. and 149.)]

سَلْعَةٌ A wound by which the head is broken, syn. شَجَّةٌ, (S, L, Mgh, Msb, K,) of whatever kind it be; as also ↓ سَلَعَةٌ: or that [only] cleaves the skin: (K:) pl. سَلَعَاتٌ (Msb, K, [in the CK, erroneously, سَلْعَاتٌ,]) and سِلَاعٌ, and quasi-pl. n. [or coll. gen. n.] سَلَعٌ. (K.) b2: See also what next follows.

سِلْعَةٌ [A ganglion;] a thing like the غُدَّة, that comes forth upon the body, or person; (K, * TA;) as also ↓ سَلْعَةٌ, (K,) which is the form of the word now commonly known, (TA,) and ↓ سَلَعَةٌ, (K,) and ↓ سِلَعَةٌ: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) or an excrescence (S, Mgh, K) of flesh, (Mgh,) that arises in the body, (S, Mgh, K,) or a [kind of spontaneous swelling that comes forth upon the body, such as is termed] خُرَاج, (Msb,) like the غُدَّة, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) that moves about when moved, (S, Msb, K,) or moves to and fro between the skin and the flesh, (Mgh,) and varies from [the size of] a chick-pea to [that of] a melon; (S, K;) also termed ضَوَاةٌ: (S:) the physicians say that it is a thick tumour, not adhering to the flesh, moving about when moved, having a cyst, or case which encloses it, and capable of increase, because it is extrinsic to the flesh, wherefore the doctors of practical law allow its being cut off, when it is safe to do so: (Msb:) or a خُرَاج [vide suprà] in the neck: (K:) or a غُدَّة in the neck: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) pl. سِلَعٌ. (Msb.) b2: [Hence,] A thing [i. e. a knob] that comes forth in a tree. (AHn, TA in art. بلط.) b3: [Hence also,] A leech; (K;) because it attaches itself to the body like the غُدَّة: (TA:) pl. سِلَعٌ. (K.) A2: A commodity; an article of merchandise; (S, * Mgh, * Msb, K; *) a thing with which one trafficks: (K:) pl. سِلَعٌ. (Msb, K.) سَلَعَةٌ: see سَلْعَةٌ: b2: and سِلْعَةٌ.

سِلَعَةٌ: see سِلْعَةٌ.

سَلِيعَةٌ Nature, or disposition: so in the phrase إِنَّهُ لَكَرِيمُ السَّلِيعَةِ [Verily he is generous in respect of nature, or disposition]. (TA.) [But perhaps this may have originated from a mistranscription for سَلِيقَةٌ.]

سَوْلَعٌ The bitter aloe. (IAar, Sgh, K.) أَسْلَعُ A man having the foot chapped, or cracked: pl. سُلْعٌ. (K.) b2: A man having his skin burned by fire so that the mark thereof is seen upon it. (TA.) b3: A man affected with بَرَص [i. e. leprosy, particularly the white, malignant kind thereof]. (Mgh, K.) b4: And Humpbacked. (TA.) مُسْلِعٌ [A man having a wound in the head, such as is termed سَلْعَة: (see 4; and see also مَسْلُوعٌ:) or] having a [kind of ulcer in the belly, called] دُبَيْلَــة. (TA.) مِسْلَعٌ A guide that directs aright: (Lth, K:) so called because he cleaves the desert. (TA.) بَيْقُورٌ مُسَلَّعَةٌ A number of [wild] bulls or cows having some firewood of the سَلَع hung to their tails, [with عُشَر, and then set on fire,] (S, * TA,) or having their backs laden therewith. (TA.) [See 2, and see also سَلَعٌ.]

مَسْلُوعٌ A man having [the skin of] his head cleft, or split; (Msb;) a man having [a سَلْعَة, i. e.] a شَجَّة; as also ↓ مُنْسَلِعٌ. (TA.) [See also مُسْلِعٌ.] b2: Having a سِلْعَة, i. e. [ganglion, or] thing like the غُدَّة, &c. (K.) b3: مَسْلُوعَةٌ The main part, or middle, of a road; the part of a road along which one travels; syn. مَحَجَّةٌ: (Ibn-'Abbád, L, K:) because it is cleft, or furrowed. (L.) مُنْسَلِعٌ: see مَسْلُوعٌ.

بابُ الأَبْواب:
ويقال له الباب، غير مضاف، والباب والأبواب: وهو الدّربند دربند شروان، قال الإصطخري: وأما باب الأبواب فإنها مدينة ربما أصاب ماء البحر حائطها، وفي وسطها مرسى السّفن، وهذا المرسى من البحر قد بني على حافتي البحر سدّين، وجعل المدخل ملتويا، وعلى هذا الفم سلسلة ممدودة فلا مخرج للمركب ولا مدخل إلا بإذن، وهذان السّدّان من صخر ورصاص، وباب الأبواب على بحر طبرستان، وهو بحر الخزر، وهي مدينة تكون أكبر من أردبيل نحو ميلين في ميلين، ولهم زروع كثيرة وثمار قليلة إلا ما يحمل إليهم من النواحي، وعلى المدينة سور من الحجارة ممتدّ من الجبل طولا في غير ذي عرض، لا مسلك على جبلها إلى بلاد المسلمين لدروس الطرق وصعوبة المسالك من بلاد الكفر إلى بلاد المسلمين، ومع طول السور فقد مدّ قطعة من السور في البحر شبه أنف طولانيّ ليمنع من تقارب السّفن من السور، وهي محكمة البناء موثّقة الأساس من بناء أنوشروان، وهي أحد الثغور الجليلة العظيمة لأنها كثيرة الأعداء الذين حفّوا بها من أمم شتّى وألسنة مختلفة وعدد كثير، وإلى جنبها جبل عظيم يعرف بالذئب، يجمع في رأسه في كلّ عام حطب كثير ليشعلوا فيه النار، إن احتاجوا إليه، ينذرون أهل أذربيجان وأرّان وأرمينية بالعدوّ إن دهمهم، وقيل: إن في أعلى جبلها الممتدّ المتصل بباب الأبواب نيفا وسبعين أمة لكلّ أمة لغة لا يعرفها مجاورهم، وكانت الأكاسرة كثيرة الاهتمام بهذا الثغر لا يفترون عن النظر في مصالحه لعظم خطره وشدة خوفه، وأقيمت لهذا المكان حفظة من ناقلة البلدان وأهل الثقة عندهم لحفظه، وأطلق لهم عمارة ما قدروا عليه بلا كلفة للسلطان ولا مؤامرة فيه ولا مراجعة حرصا على صيانته من أصناف الترك والكفر والأعداء، فممن رتبوا هناك من الحفظة أمة يقال لهم طبرسران، وأمة إلى جنبهم تعرف بفيلان، وأمة يعرفون باللكز كثير عددهم عظيمة شوكتهم، والليران وشروان وغيرهم، وجعل لكل صنف من هؤلاء مركز يحفظه، وهم أولو عدد وشدّة رجالة وفرسان، وباب الأبواب فرضة لذلك البحر، يجتمع إليه الخزر والسرير وشنذان وخيزان وكرج ورقلان وزريكران وغميك، هذه من جهة شماليها، ويجتمع إليه أيضا من جرجان وطبرستان والدّيلم والجبل، وقد يقع بها شغل ثياب كتّان، وليس بأرّان وأرمينية وأذربيجان كتّان إلا بها وبرساتيقها، وبها زعفران، ويقع بها من الرقيق من كل نوع، وبجنبها مما يلي بلاد الإسلام رستاق يقال له مسقط، ويليه بلد اللكز،
وهم أمم كثيرة ذوو خلق وأجسام وضياع عامرة وكور مأهولة فيها أحرار يعرفون بالخماشرة، وفوقهم الملوك ودونهم المشاق، وبينهم وبين باب الأبواب بلد طبرستان شاه، وهم بهذه الصفة من البأس والشدة والعمارة الكثيرة، إلا أن اللكز أكثر عددا وأوسع بلدا وفوق ذلك فيلان وليس بكورة كبيرة، وعلى ساحل هذا البحر دون المسقط مدينة الشابران، صغيره حصينة كثيرة الرساتيق، وأما المسافات فمن إتل مدينة الخزر إلى باب الأبواب اثنا عشر يوما، ومن سمندر إلى باب الأبواب أربعة أيام، وبين مملكة السرير إلى باب الأبواب ثلاثة أيام، وقال أبو بكر أحمد بن محمد الهمداني: وباب الأبواب أفواه شعاب في جبل القبق فيها حصون كثيرة، منها: باب صول وباب اللان وباب الشابران وباب لازقة وباب بارقة وباب سمسجن وباب صاحب السرير وباب فيلانشاه وباب طارونان وباب طبرسران شاه وباب إيران شاه، وكان السبب في بناء باب الأبواب على ما حدّث به أبو العباس الطوسي، قال: هاجت الخزر مرّة في أيام المنصور فقال لنا: أتدرون كيف كان بناء أنوشروان الحائط الذي يقال له الباب؟ قلنا: لا، قال: كانت الخزر تغير في سلطان فارس حتى تبلغ همذان والموصل، فلما ملك أنوشروان بعث إلى ملكهم فخطب إليه ابنته على أن يزوّجه إياها ويعطيه هو أيضا ابنته ويتوادعا ثم يتفرّغا لأعدائهما، فلما أجابه إلى ذلك عمد أنوشروان إلى جارية من جواريه نفيسة فوجه بها إلى ملك الخزر على أنها ابنته وحمّل معها ما يحمل مع بنات الملوك، وأهدى خاقان إلى أنوشروان ابنته، فلما وصلت إليه كتب إلى ملك الخزر: لو التقينا فأوجبنا المودّة بيننا، فأجابه إلى ذلك وواعده إلى موضع سماه ثم التقيا فأقاما أياما، ثم إن أنو شروان أمر قائدا من قوّاده أن يختار ثلاثمائة رجل من أشدّاء أصحابه فإذا هدأت العيون أغار في عسكر الخزر فحرق وعقر ورجع إلى العسكر في خفاء، ففعل، فلما أصبح بعث إليه خاقان: ما هذا؟
بيّتّ عسكري البارحة! فبعث إليه أنوشروان: لم تؤت من قبلنا فابحث وانظر، ففعل فلم يقف على شيء، ثم أمهله أياما وعاد لمثلها حتى فعل ثلاث مرات وفي كلها يعتذر ويسأله البحث، فيبحث فلا يقف على شيء، فلما أثقل ذلك على خاقان دعا قائدا من قوّاده وأمره بمثل ما أمر به أنوشروان، فلما فعل أرسل إليه أنوشروان. ما هذا؟ استبيح عسكري الليلة وفعل بي وصنع! فأرسل إليه خاقان: ما أسرع ما ضجرت! قد فعل هذا بعسكري ثلاث مرات وإنما فعل بك أنت مرّة واحدة. فبعث إليه أنوشروان: هذا عمل قوم يريدون أن يفسدوا فيما بيننا، وعندي رأي لو قبلته رأيت ما تحبّ، قال: وما هو؟ قال: تدعني أن أبني حائطا بيني وبينك وأجعل عليه بابا فلا يدخل بلدك إلا من تحبّ ولا يدخل بلدي إلا من أحبّ، فأجابه إلى ذلك، وانصرف خاقان إلى مملكته، وأقام أنوشروان يبني الحائط بالصخر والرصاص، وجعل عرضه ثلاثمائة ذراع وعلّاه حتى ألحقه برؤوس الجبال ثم قاده في البحر، فيقال: إنه نفخ الزقاق وبنى عليها فأقبلت تنزل والبناء يصعد حتى استقرت الزقاق على الأرض، ثم رفع البناء حتى استوى مع الذي على الأرض في عرضه وارتفاعه، وجعل عليه بابا من حديد، ووكّل به مائة رجل يحرسونه بعد أن كان يحتاج إلى مائة ألف رجل، ثم نصب سريره على الفند الذي صنعه على البحر وسجد سرورا بما هيأه الله على
يده، ثم استلقى على ظهره وقال: الآن حين استرحت، قال: ووصف بعضهم هذا السّدّ الذي بناه أنوشروان فقال: إنه جعل طرفا منه في البحر فأحكمه إلى حيث لا يتهيأ سلوكه، وهو مبني بالحجارة المنقورة المربعة المهندمة لا يقلّ أصغرها خمسون رجلا، وقد أحكمت بالمسامير والرصاص، وجعل في هذه السبعة فراسخ سبعة مسالك على كلّ مسلك مدينة، ورتّب فيها قوم من المقاتلة من الفرس يقال لهم الانشاستكين، وكان على أرمينية وظائف رجال لحراسة ذلك السور مقدار ما يسير عليه عشرون رجلا بخيلهم لا يتزاحمون. وذكر أن بمدينة الباب على باب الجهاد فوق الحائط أسطوانتين من حجر، على كل أسطوانة تمثال أسد من حجارة بيض، وأسفل منهما حجرين على كل حجر تمثال لبوتين، وبقرب الباب صورة رجل من حجر وبين رجليه صورة ثعلب في فمه عنقود عنب، وإلى جانب المدينة صهريج معقود له درجة ينزل إلى الصهريج منها إذا قل ماؤه، وعلى جنبي الدرجة أيضا صورتا أسد من حجارة يقولون إنهما طلسمان للسور. وأما حديثها أيام الفتوح فإن سلمان بن ربيعة الباهلي غزاها في أيام عمر بن الخطاب، رضي الله عنه، وتجاوز الحصنين وبلنجر، ولقيه خاقان ملك الخزر في جيشه خلف نهر بلنجر، فاستشهد سلمان بن ربيعة وأصحابه، وكانوا أربعة آلاف، فقال عبد الرحمن ابن جمانة الباهلي يذكر سلمان بن ربيعة وقتيبة بن مسلم الباهليّين يفتخر بهما:
وإن لنا قبرين: قبر بلنجر، ... وقبر بصين استان يا لك من قبر
فهذا الذي بالصين عمّت فتوحه، ... وهذا الذي يسقى به سبل القطر
يريد أن الترك أو الخزر لما قتلوا سلمان بن ربيعة وأصحابه، كانوا يبصرون في كل ليلة نورا عظيما على موضع مصارعهم، فيقال إنهم دفنوهم وأخذوا سلمان بن ربيعة وجعلوه في تابوت وسيروه إلى بيت عبادتهم، فإذا أجدبوا أو أقحطوا أخرجوا التابوت وكشفوا عنه فيسقون. ووجدت في موضع آخر أن أبا موسى الأشعري لما فرغ من غزو أصبهان في أيام عمر ابن الخطاب في سنة 19 أنفذ سراقة بن عمرو وكان يدعى ذا النون إلى الباب، وجعل في مقدمته عبد الرحمن بن ربيعة، وكان أيضا يدعى ذا النون، وسار في عسكره إلى الباب ففتحه بعد حروب جرت، فقال سراقة بن عمرو في ذلك:
ومن يك سائلا عنّي، فإني ... بأرض لا يؤاتيها القرار
بباب الترك ذي الأبواب دار، ... لها في كلّ ناحية مغار
نذود جموعهم عما حوينا، ... ونقتلهم إذا باح السّرار
سددنا كل فرج كان فيها ... مكابرة، إذا سطع الغبار
وألحمنا الجبال جبال قبج، ... وجاور دورهم منا ديار
وبادرنا العدوّ بكل فجّ ... نناهبهم، وقد طار الشرار
على خيل تعادى، كل يوم، ... عتادا ليس يتبعها المهار
وقال نصيب يذكر الباب، ولا أدري أيّ باب أراد:
ذكرت مقامي، ليلة الباب، قابضا ... على كفّ حوراء المدامع كالبدر
وكدت، ولم املك إليك صبابة، ... أطير وفاض الدمع مني على نحري
ألا ليت شعري هل أبيتنّ ليلة ... كليلتنا، حتى أرى وضح الفجر!
أجود عليها بالحديث، وتارة ... تجود علينا بالرّضاب من الثّغر
فليت إلهي قد قضى ذاك مرّة، ... فيعلم ربي عند ذلك ما شكري
وينسب إلى باب الأبواب جماعة، منهم: زهير بن نعيم البابي، وإبراهيم بن جعفر البابي، قال عبد الغني ابن سعيد: كان يفيد بمصر وقد أدركته وأظنّهما، يعني زهيرا وإبراهيم، ينسبان إلى باب الأبواب، وهي مدينة دربند، والحسن بن إبراهيم البابي، حدّث عن حميد الطويل عن أنس عن النبي، صلى الله عليه وسلم: تختموا بالعقيق فإنه ينفي الفقر، روى عنه عيسى بن محمد بن محمد البغدادي، وهلال بن العلاء البابي، روى عنه أبو نعيم الحافظ. وفي الفيصل:
زهير بن محمد البابي، ومحمد بن هشام بن الوليد بن عبد الحميد أبو الحسن المعروف بابن أبي عمران البابي، روى عن أبي سعيد عبد الله بن سعيد الأشجّ الكندي، روى عنه مسعر بن عليّ البرذعي، وحبيب بن فهد ابن عبد العزيز أبو الحسن البابي، حدث عن محمد بن دوستي عن سليمان الأصبهاني عن بختويه عن عاصم بن إسماعيل عن عاصم الأحول، حدث عنه أبو بكر الإسماعيلي، وذكر أنه سمع قبل السبعين ومائتين على باب محمد بن أبي عمران المقابري، ومحمد بن أبي عمران البابي الثقفي، واسم أبي عمران هشام، أصله من باب الأبواب، نزل ببرذعة، روى عن إبراهيم بن مسلم الخوارزمي.

الأبُلَّةُ:
بضم أوله وثانيه وتشديد اللام وفتحها، قال أبو علي: الأبلَّة، اسم البلد. الهمزة فيه فاء، وفعلّة
قد جاء اسما وصفة، نحو حضمّة وغلبّة، وقالوا قمدّ، فلو قال قائل: إنه أفعلة، والهمزة فيه زائدة، مثل أبلمة وأسنمة، لكان قولا.
وذهب أبو بكر في ذلك إلى الوجه الأول، كأنه لما رأى فعلّة أكثر من أفعلة، كان عنده أولى من الحكم بزيادة الهمزة، لقلّة أفعلة، ولمن ذهب إلى الوجه الآخر أن يحتج بكثرة زيادة الهمزة أولا.
وقالوا للفدرة من التّمر الأبلّة. قال الشاعر، وهو أبو المثلّم الهذلي:
فيأكل ما رضّ من زادنا، ... ويأبى الأبلّة لم ترضض
وهذا أيضا فعلّة، من قولهم طير أبابيل، فسّره أبو عبيدة جماعات في تفرقة، فكما أن أبابيل فعاعيل وليست بأفاعيل، كذلك الأبلّة فعلّة وليست بأفعلة.
وحكي عن الأصمعي في قولهم الأبلّة التي يراد بها اسم البلد: كانت به امرأة خمّارة تعرف بهوب في زمن النبط، فطلبها قوم من النبط، فقيل لهم:
هوب لاكا، بتشديد اللام، أي ليست هوب ههنا، فجاءت الفرس فغلّظت، فقالت: هو بلّت، فعرّبتها العرب فقالت: الأبلّة.
وقال أبو القاسم الزّجّاجي: الأبلّة الفدرة من التّمر، وليست الجلة كما قال أبو بكر الأنباري. إن الأبلّة عندهم الجلة من التّمر، وأنشد ابن الأنباري:
ويأبى الأبلّة لم ترضض
وقرئ بخط بديع الزمان بن عبد الله الأديب الهمذاني في كتاب قرأه على أبي الحسين أحمد بن فارس اللغوي وخطّه له عليه: سمعت محمد بن الحسين بن العميد يقول سمعت محمد بن مضا يقول سمعت الحسن بن علي بن قتيبة الرازي يقول سمعت أبا بكر القاري يقول: الأبلّة، بفتح أوله وثانيه، والأبلّة بضم أوله وثانيه، هو المجيع. وأنشد البيت المذكور قبل، والمجيع: التّمر باللبن.
والأبلّة بلدة على شاطئ دجلة البصرة العظمى في زاوية الخليج الذي يدخل إلى مدينة البصرة، وهي أقدم من البصرة، لأن البصرة مصّرت في أيام عمر ابن الخطّاب، رضي الله عنه، وكانت الأبلة حينئذ مدينة فيها مسالح من قبل كسرى، وقائد، وقد ذكرنا فتحها في سبذان.
وكان خالد بن صفوان يقول: ما رأيت أرضا مثل الأبلة مسافة، ولا أغذى نطفة، ولا أوطأ مطيّة، ولا أربح لتاجر، ولا أخفى لعائذ.
وقال الأصمعي: جنان الدّنيا ثلاث: غوطة دمشق، ونهر بلخ، ونهر الأبلة. وحشوش الدنيا خمسة:
الأبلة، وسيراف، وعمان، وأردبيل، وهيت.
وأما نهر الأبلة الضارب إلى البصرة، فحفره زياد.
وحكي أن بكر بن النّطّاح الحنفي مدح أبا دلف العجلي بقصيدة، فأثابه عليها عشرة آلاف درهم، فاشترى بها ضيعة بالأبلة، ثم جاء بعد مديدة، وأنشده أبياتا:
بك ابتعت في نهر الابلة ضيعة، ... عليها قصير بالرّخام مشيد
إلى جنبها أخت لها يعرضونها، ... وعندك مال للهبات عتيد
فقال أبو دلف: وكم ثمن هذه الضيعة الأخرى؟
فقال: عشرة آلاف درهم، فأمر أن يدفع ذلك إليه، فلما قبضها قال له: اسمع مني يا بكر، إن إلى جنب
كل ضيعة ضيعة أخرى، إلى الصين وإلى ما لا نهاية له، فإيّاك أن تجيئني غدا، وتقول إلى جنب هذه الضيعة ضيعة أخرى، فإن هذا شيء لا ينقضي.
وقد نسب إلى الأبلة جماعة من رواة العلم، منهم شيبان بن فرّوخ الأبليّ، وحفص بن عمر بن إسماعيل الأبلي روى عن الثوري ومسعر بن كدام ومالك بن أنس وابن أبي ذئب، وابنه إسماعيل بن حفص أبو بكر الأبلي، وأبو هاشم كثير بن سليم الأبلي من أهلها، وهو الذي يقال له كثير بن عبد الله يضع الحديث على أنس ويرويه عنه لا تحلّ رواية حديثه. وغير هؤلاء.