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lazaba

adhere, stick

لَزَبَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

ل ز ب

Forms

Present
يَلْزُبُ

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الزبون: الدّفوع، وأصله من قولهم: زبنت الناقة حالبها، إذا ضربته بثفنات رجليها أي بركبتيها ومنه الزبانية لزبنهم أهل النار، أي لدفعهم.

The Seven Hanging Odes, with Commentary, page 247 →
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ لَزَبَيَلْزُبُ—
she هِيَ لَزَبَتتَلْزُبُ—
they two (m.) هُما لَزَبايَلْزُبانِ—
they two (f.) هُما لَزَبَتاتَلْزُبانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ لَزَبُوايَلْزُبُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ لَزَبْنَيَلْزُبْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ لَزَبْتَتَلْزُبُاُلْزُبْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ لَزَبْتِتَلْزُبِينَاُلْزُبِي
you two أَنْتُما لَزَبْتُماتَلْزُبانِاُلْزُبَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ لَزَبْتُمتَلْزُبُونَاُلْزُبُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ لَزَبْتُنَّتَلْزُبْنَاُلْزُبْنَ
I أَنا لَزَبْتُأَلْزُبُ—
we نَحْنُ لَزَبْنانَلْزُبُ—

From the same root

All words from ل ز ب →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 9 entries
  • لَزَبَ Form I It was, or remained, fixed, settled, firm, or constant
    , aor. , inf. n. لُزُوبٌ, It was, or remained, fixed, settled, firm, or constant. (K.) ― -b2- لَزَبَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, It (mud &c., S) adhered, clave, or stuck. (S, K.) ― -b3- لَزُبَ, aor. , inf. n. لَزْبٌ and لُزُوبٌ, [It became commixed, or commingled: it intermixed; or it became contracted;] one part of it entered into another. (K.) ― -b4- لَزَبَ and لَزُبَ It (mud) cohered, and became hard. (K.) ― -b5- لَزَبَ, aor. and inf. n. as at first, It was a time of drought, of no rain. (K.) -A2- لَزَبَتْهُ العَقْرَبُ i. q. لَسَبَتْهُ; The scorpion stung him. (Kr, K.)
  • تلازب التَّمْرُ Form VI The dates stuck together
    The dates stuck together. (L, art. نضح.)
  • لَزْبٌ Strait; narrow; difficult
    Strait; narrow; difficult. E. g. عَيْشٌ لَزْبٌ A strait, or difficult life. (TA.)
  • لِزْبٌ narrow
    A narrow road, or way. (K.)
  • لَزَبٌ Open entry
    immediately following عَزَبٌ, (in the CK, غَرَبٌ,) [meaning a man “ who has no wife, ”] is an imitative sequent [used by way of pleonasm and corroboration]. (K.) So likewise لَزَبَةٌ after عَزَبَةٌ. (Ibn-Buzruj.)
  • لَزِبٌ Little in quantity or number
    Little in quantity or number: pl. لِزَابٌ. (K.) E. g. مَاءٌ لَزِبٌ Little water. (TA.)
  • لَزْبَةٌ Adversity; difficulty; distress
    Adversity; difficulty; distress; (S, K;) drought: (S:) pl. لِزَبٌ (IJ, K: in the CK لَزْبٌ) and لَزْبَاتٌ: (S, K:) the latter with the ز quiescent, because it is [originally] an epithet. (S.) E. g. أَصَابَتْهُمْ لَزْبَةٌ Distress and drought befell them. (S.) ― -b2- سَنَةٌ لَزْبَةٌ A severe year; a year of drought. (TA.)
  • لَازِبٌ Adhering, or adhesive, or cohesive
    Adhering, or adhesive, or cohesive, clay or mud. (S.) ― -b2- Being, or remaining, fixed, settled, firm, or constant. (S.) ― -b3- صَارَ الشَّىْءُ ضَرْبَةَ لَازِبٍ The thing became fixed, settled, firm, or constant, (S, K,) and severe: (TA:) [or, a constant infliction:] or, indispensable, or necessary: i. e., the blow of a sword that sticks, or remains fixed, [in the wound]. (Aboo-Bekr, cited in the TA.) لازب is here the same as لازم: (K:) the latter is the original word; the م being changed into ب; and is also used in this phrase: (TA:) but لازب, in this in- stance, is the more chaste. (S.) En-Nábighah says, " فَلَا تَحْسِبُونَ الخَيْرَ لَا شَرَّ بَعْدَهُ وَلَا تَحْسِبُونَ الشَّرَّ ضَرْبَةَ لَازِبِ " [Then think ye not that good shall have no evil after it, nor think ye that evil shall be a constant infliction]. (S.) Sgh says, of the conversion of رِوَاغَةٌ into رِيَاغَةٌ, or of و into ى because of kesreh before it, هٰذَا القَلْبُ لَيْسَ بِضَرْبٍ لَازِبٍ [This conversion is not a necessary sort.] (TA in art. روغ.)
  • مِلْزَابٌ Very avaricious; tenacious, or niggardly
    Very avaricious; tenacious, or niggardly: (S, K:) pl. مَلَازِيبُ. (S.)

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