ظبو
ظُبَةٌ The حَدّ, (
T,
M,
Msb,
K,) or طَرَف, (
S,) [both of which mean the end, or extremity, but the former means also the edge,] of a sword, (
T,
S,
M,
Msb,
K,) or of a spear-head and the like, (
K,) or also of a spear-head and of an arrowhead and of a dagger and the like; (
M;) or the part next to the طَرَف [or extremity] of the sword; also called its ذُبَاب: (
T:) or the ظُبَتَانِ are the parts of the two edges that are on either side of the ذُبَاب [by which last word is here
app. meant the point] of the sword: (
Az,
T and
TA voce ذُبَابٌ,
q. v.:) [for the swords of the Arabs, in the older times, were generally straight, twoedged, and tapering to a point:] or,
accord. to Aboo-Riyásh, the ظُبَة of the sword is the part that is four digits' measure below, or within, (دُونَ,) the ذُبَاب thereof; and is the strikingplace thereof: and it is also its حَدّ; and the ظُبَة of the spear-head is likewise its حَدّ: (
Ham p. 48:) the ة in ظُبَةٌ is a substitute for و, which is the final radical, (
S,
M,
Msb,
K,) the word being originally ظُبَوٌ: (
S,
TA:) the
pl. is أَظْبٍ, (
S,
K,) a
pl. of pauc., (
S,) and ظُبَاتٌ (
T,
S,
M,
Msb,
K) and ظُبَاةٌ [which is originally ظُبَوَةٌ] (
S, *
TA) and ظُبُونَ (
T,
S,
M,
Msb,
K) and ظِبُونَ and ظُبًا or ظُبًى. (
M,
K.) In the saying of EsSemow-al Ibn-'Ádiyà, تَسِيلُ عَلَى حَدِّ الظُّبَاتِ نُفُوسُنَا وَلَيْسَتْ عَلَى غَيْرِ الظُّبَاتِ تَسِيلُ [Our bloods flow upon the edge of the ظبات, and upon other than the edge of the ظبات they flow not], by the ظبات may be meant the swords, altogether, or the striking-places of the swords. (
Ham p. 52. [See also a similar
ex. in p. 48 of the same.])
A2: Also A kind of مَزَاد [or leathern water-bag]. (
M.)
A3: And A place of bending, or turning, of a valley; like ظَبْيَةٌ [which belongs to art. ظبى]:
pl. of the former ظُبَآءٌ, a
pl. of a rare form. (
M in art. ظبى.)