fault, offense, misdeed

, (M, K,) aor. (S, M, A, K) and , (M, K,) inf. n. ذَنْبٌ; (TK;) and ↓ استذنبهُ; (M, K;) [properly signifies] He followed his tail, not quitting his track: (M:) [and hence, tropically,] (assumed tropical:) he followed him [in any case], not quitting his track. (K.) You say, ذَنَبَ الإِبِلَ and ↓ استذنبها He followed the camels. (A: there mentioned among proper significations.) ElKilábee says, " وَجَآءَتِ الخَيْلُ جَمِيعَا تَذْنُبُهْ " [And the horses, or horsemen, came all together, following him]. (S [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, " الرَّوَاحِلَا ↓ مِثْلُ الأَجِيرِ ٱسْتَذْنَبَ " [Like the hired man,] he was at the tails of the ridden camels. (T, S.) ذَنَبَتِ القَوْمُ, and [ذَنَبَتِ] الطَّرِيقُ, and الأَمْرُ [ذَنَبَ], and السَحَابُ يَذْنُبُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا, are tropical phrases [meaning (tropical:) The people followed one another, and (tropical:) The road followed on uninterruptedly, and (tropical:) The affair, or case, or event, proceeded by successive steps, uninterruptedly, and (tropical:) The clouds follow one another]. (A.) ― -b2- See also 2.

, (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.] ― -b2- ذَنَّبَتِ البُسْرَةُ, (T, S, M, K,) or ذَنَّبَ البُسْرُ, (As, A, Mgh,) or الرُّطَبُ, (Msb,) inf. n. تَذْنِيبٌ, (Msb, K,) (tropical:) [The full-grown unripe date or dates, or the ripening dates,] began to ripen, (Mgh, and so in a copy of the S,) or showed ripening, (Msb, and so in a copy of the S,) or became speckled by reason of ripening, (As, T, M, K,) or ripened, (A,) at the ذَنَب, (As, T, S, M, A, Mgh, K,) i. e. the part next the base and stalk. (Mgh.) The dates in this case are termed ↓ تَذْنُوبٌ (Fr, T, S, M, A, K) in the dial. of Benoo-Asad, (Fr, T,) and ↓ تُذْنُوبٌ (Fr, T, K) in the dial. of Temeem (Fr, T) and ↓ مُذَنِّبٌ; (A, Mgh;) and a single date is termed ↓ تَذْنُوبَةٌ (T, M, * K) and ↓ مُذَنِّبَةٌ. (T, S.) -A2- 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.) ― -b2- 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.) ― -b3- ذنّب عِمَامَتَهُ (tropical:) [He made a tail to his turban;] (S, K, TA;) i. e. (tropical:) he made a portion of his turban to hang down like a tail: (S, TA:) you say of him who has done this, ↓ تَذَنَّبَ. (S, A, K, TA.) ― -b4- ذَنَّبْتُ كَلَامَهُ [and كِتَابَهُ (tropical:) 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 (assumed tropical:) An appendix; like تَذْيِيلٌ.] ― -b5- ذَنَّبُوا خُشْبَانَهُ (assumed tropical:) They made channels for water (which are termed مَذَانِب) in its rugged ground. (TA from a trad.)

, (AO, T, K,) written by Sgh, 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, K,) 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, K.)

He committed a sin, crime, fault, misdemeanour, &c.; (S, * M, * A, * MA, K; *) he became chargeable with a ذَنْب [or sin, &c.]: (Msb:) 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 TK,] has not been heard. (MF.)

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.) -A2- See also 2, near the end of the paragraph. ― -b2- تَذَنَّبْتُ الوَادِىَ (tropical:) I came to the valley from the direction of its ذَنَب [q. v.]. (A.) And تذنّب الطَّرِيقَ (tropical:) He took the road; (K, TA;) as though he took its ذِنَابَة, or came to it from [the direction of] its ذَنَب. (TA.)

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. (Har p. 450.) -A2- See also 1, in three places. -A3- استذنب الأَمْرُ (assumed tropical:) The affair was, or became, complete, [as though it assumed a tail,] and in a right state. (K, * TA.)

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, Msb,) or جُرْمٌ, (S,) 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, Msb, K) and pl. pl. ذُنُوبَاتٌ. (M, K.) وَلَهُمْ عَلَىَّ ذَنْبٌ [in the Kur 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.)

and ↓ ذُنَابَى (T, S, M, A, Msb, K) and ↓ دِنِبَّى and ↓ ذُنُبَّى (El-Hejeree, M, K) signify the same; (T, S, 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 (S, A) and the ass [and the like] (S) more commonly than the second; (S, A; *) and the second is used in relation to a bird (S, M, A, Msb) more commonly than the first, (S, M, *) or more chastely: (M, * Msb:) 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. (S, M, A, Msb, K.) [Hence the following phrases &c.] ― -b2- رَكِبَ ذَنَبَ البَعِيرِ [lit. He rode on the tail of the camel, meaning] (tropical:) he was content with a deficient lot. (T, A, K.) ― -b3- ضَرَبَ بِذَنِبِهِ [lit. He smote the earth with his tail, الأَرْضَ being understood, meaning] (assumed tropical:) he (a man) stayed, or abode, and remained fixed. (K.) [See also another explanation of this phrase below.] And أَقَامَ بِأَرْضِنَا وَ غَرَزَ ذَنَبَهُ, meaning (tropical:) [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.]) ― -b4- بَيْنِى وَ بَيْنَهُ ذَنبُ الضَّبِّ [lit. Between me and him is the tail of the ضبّ,] means (tropical:) between me and him is opposition or competition [as when two persons are endeavouring to seize the tail of the ضبّ]. (A, TA.) ― -b5- اِسْتَرْخَى ذنَبُ الشَّيْخِ (tropical:) The old man's شَىْء became lax, or languid. (Á, TA.) ― -b6- رَكِبَ ذَنَبَ الرِّيحِ [lit. He rode upon the tail of the wind,] means (tropical:) he outwent, or outstripped, and was not reached, or overtaken. (T, A, K.) ― -b7- وَلَّى خَمْسِينَ (??) [lit. He turned his tail upon the fifty,] means (tropical:) 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 Yaakoob: accord. to IAar, El-Kilábee, being asked his age, said, قَدْ وَلَّتْ لِىَ الخَمْسُونَ ذَنَبَهَا [lit. The fifty have turned their tail to me]. (M, TA.) ― -b8- اِتَّبَعَ ذَنَبَ أَمْرٍ مُدْبِرٍ [lit. He followed the tail of an event retreating,] means (tropical:) he regretted an event that had passed. (T, A, * TA. *) ― -b9- [The ذَنَب of a man is (assumed tropical:) The part corresponding to the tail: and hence,] رَجُلٌ وَقَاحُ الذَّنَبِ (assumed tropical:) [A man hard in the caudal extremity;] meaning (assumed tropical:) a man very patient in enduring riding. (IAar, M, and K in art. وقح.) ― -b10- [And of a garment, The skirt:] you say, تَعَلَّقْتُ بِأَذْنَابِهِ (tropical:) [I clung to his skirts]. (A.) ― -b11- The ذَنَبَ of a ship or boat is (assumed tropical:) The rudder. (Lth and S * and L in art. سكن. [See also خَيْزُرَانٌ.]) ― -b12- ذَنَبٌ also signifies [(assumed tropical:) Anything resembling a tail. ― -b13- Hence,] (assumed tropical:) The extremity of a whip. (Mgh, Msb.) ― -b14- And, of an unripe date, (M, Mgh,) and of any date, (M,) (assumed tropical:) The kinder part; (M;) the part next the base and stalk. (Mgh.) ― -b15- (tropical:) And (tropical:) The outer extremity of the eye, next the temple; as also ↓ ذِنَابٌ and ↓ ذِنَابَةٌ (M, A) and ↓ ذُنَابَةٌ (A) [and ↓ ذُنَابَى, as used in the K voce اِزْدَجَّ, in art. زج]. ― -b16- See also ذَنُوبٌ, third sentence. ― -b17- Also (assumed tropical:) The end; or last, or latter, part; of anything: pl. ذِنَابٌ (T) [and أَذْنَابٌ]: and ↓ ذِنَابٌ [as a sing.], (K,) or ↓ ذُنَابٌ, (so in the TT as from the M,) has this meaning. (M, K.) You say, كَانَ ذٰلِكَ فِى ذَنَبِ الدَّهْرِ (assumed tropical:) That was in the end of the time [past]. (M.) And ذَنَبُ الوَادِى and ↓ الذُنَابَةُ: both signify the same [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The end of the valley]: (A 'Obeyd, M, TA:) or ↓ ذُنَابَةٌ and ↓ ذِنَابَةٌ and ↓ ذَنَبَةٌ signify the (tropical:) last, or latter, parts, (K, TA,) in some copies of the K, 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, K, TA,) and of a river, (A, TA,) and of time; (K, TA;) [and ↓ ذِنَابٌ app. has the former of these two significations in relation to a valley, accord. to Az; for he says,] it seems that ذِنَابٌ and ↓ ذِنَابَةٌ in relation to a valley are pls. of ذَنَبٌ, like as جِمَالٌ and جِمَالَةٌ are pls. of جَمَلٌ: (T:) or ↓ ذِنَابَةٌ and ↓ ذَنَبَةٌ, (S, Msb,) the former of which is more common than the latter, (Th, S, Msb,) signify (assumed tropical:) the place to which finally comes the torrent of a valley: (S, Msb:) the pl. of ↓ ذِنَابَةٌ is ذَنَايأِبُ: (T:) the ذَنَب of a valley and its ↓ مِذْنَبَ are the same; [i. e. (assumed tropical:) the lowest, or lower, part thereof;] (T;) [for the pls.] أَذْنَابٌ (T, TA) and مَذَانِبُ (TA) signify (assumed tropical:) the lowest, or lower, parts of valleys: (T, TA:) and أَذْنَابٌ signifies [in like manner] (assumed tropical:) 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 [(assumed tropical:) 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 (tropical:) The last, or latter, parts of affairs or events. (M.) You say also, حَدِيثٌ طَوِيلُ الذَّنَبِ (tropical:) [A long-tailed story;] a story that hardly, or never, comes to an end. (M.) And يَوْمٌ طَوِيلُ الذَّنَبِ (assumed tropical:) A day of which the evil does not come to an end: (TA:) and ↓ يَوْمٌ ذَنُوبٌ has this meaning; (T, M, TA;) as though it were long in the tail; (M;) or means (assumed tropical:) a day of long-continued evil. (K.) And اِتَّبَعَ القَوْمِ ↓ ذِنَابَةَ, and الإِبِلِ, (tropical:) He followed [the last of] the people, and the camels, not quitting their track. (A.) ― -b18- Also (tropical:) The followers, or dependants, of a man: (T, TA:) and ↓ ذَانِبٌ and ↓ ذُنَابَةٌ (assumed tropical:) a [single] follower, or dependant: (S, K:) and أَذْنَابٌ (M, A, K) and ↓ ذُنَابَى (S) and دَنَايأِبُ [pl. of ↓ ذُنَابَةٌ] (A) and ↓ ذُنُبَاتٌ, (so in the TT as from the M,) or ↓ ذَنَبَاتٌ, (K,) but some state that this last is not said of men, (Ham p. 249,) (tropical:) followers, or dependants, (S, M, A, K,) of a people or party; (M, K;) and the lower, or lowest, sort, or the rabble, or refuse, thereof; (M, A, K;) and such as are below the chiefs. (TA.) ضَرَبَ يَعْسُوبُ الدِّينِ بِذَنَبِهِ, in a trad. of 'Alee, means, [accord. to some, (assumed tropical:) 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 IAar, but not explained by him, app. means (assumed tropical:) [The tribe of] 'Okeyl have numerous horsemen. (M.) ― -b19- [Also ذَنَبٌ (as will be shown by the use of its pl. in the verse here following) and] ↓ ذِنَابٌ, (S, K, TA,) or ↓ ذُنَابٌ, (so in the TT as from the M,) (assumed tropical:) The sequel, consequence, or result, syn. عَقِبٌ, of anything. (S, M, K.) 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 لَوٍّ ↓ بِذِنَابِ i. e. [Who will be responsible to thee for] the sequel [of the word لَوْ]? (TA:) [or, as in the Proverbs of El-Meydánee, لَوٍّ ↓ بِذُنَابَةِ, which means the same.] ― -b20- ذَنَبُ السِّرْحَانِ: see art. سرح. ― -b21- ذَنَبُ الفَرَسِ (assumed tropical:) A certain asterism (نَجْمٌ, M, K, TA) in the sky, (TA,) resembling the ذَنَب [or tail] of the horse. (M, K.) [الذَّنَبُ is a name applied to each of several stars or asterisms: as (assumed tropical:) The star a of Cygnus; also called ذَنَبُ الدَّجَاجَةِ, and الرِّدْفُ: and (assumed tropical:) The star beta of Leo; also called ذَنَبُ الأَسَدِ. And الرَّأْسُ وَالذَّنَبُ signifies (assumed tropical:) The two nodes of a planet: see تِنِّينٌ.] ― -b22- ذَنَبُ الخَيْلِ, (K,) or أَذْنَابُ الخَيْلِ, (M,) (assumed tropical:) A certain herb, (M, K,) 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 (assumed tropical:) A certain plant, resembling the ذَنَب [or tail] of the fox; (M, K;) a name applied by some of the Arabs to the ذَنَبَان [q. v.] (T.) ― -b23- [ذَنَبُ السَّبُعِ (assumed tropical:) Cauda leonis, i. e. circium (or cirsium): (Golius, from Diosc. iv. 119:) now applied to the common creeping way-thistle. ― -b24- ذَنَبُ الفَأْرَةِ (assumed tropical:) Cauda muris, i. e. plantago. (Golius, from Ibn-Beytár.) ― -b25- ذَنَبَ الثَوْرِ (assumed tropical:) A species of aristida, supposed by Forskål (Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. civ,) to be the aristida adscensionis. ― -b26- ذَنَبُ العَقْرَبِ (assumed tropical:) Scorpioides, or scorpion-grass: so called in the present day.]

, and its pl. ذَنَبَاتٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places.

: see ذَنَبٌ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

A certain plant, (T, S,) 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]; (K;) 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 AHn, 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. (M, K.)

and ذِنِبَّى: see ذَنَبٌ, first sentence.