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ذُبَاب

dhubaab

*ubaAbN * [The common fly; ] the black thing that is in houses, that falls into the vessel and into food; (M;) well known: (S, K:) so called, accord. to Ed-Demeeree, because of its fluttering about, or because it returns as often as it is driven away: (TA:) and likewise applied to the bee; (M, K;) w

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1. ذُبَابٌ

*ubaAbN * [The common fly; ] the black thing that is in houses, that falls into the vessel and into food; (M;) well known: (S, K:) so called, accord. to Ed-Demeeree, because of its fluttering about, or because it returns as often as it is driven away: (TA:) and likewise applied to the bee; (M, K;) w

2. ذَبَّابٌ

*ab~aAbN * A man who repels from, or defends, with energy, his wife, or wives, or the like; as also ↓ mi*ab~N . (M, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] yiwomN *ab~aAbN (tropical:) A sultry day in which the wild animals are infested by numerous gnats, and drive them away with their tails: the act being thus attribut

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Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.