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ذُبَحَ , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) aor.
ذَبَحَ , (K,) inf. n.
ذَبْحٌ (S, Msb, K, &c.) and ذُبَاحٌ, (K,) He cut, or
divided, lengthwise; clave; split; slit; rent, or
rent open; ripped, or ripped open. (S, Msb, K.)
[Accord. to Fei,] this is the primary signification.
(Msb.) [But see what follows.] You say, ذَبَحَ
فَأْرَةَ المِسْكَ (assumed tropical:) He (a perfumer, A) ripped open the
follicle, or vesicle, of mush, (A, TA,) and took
forth the mush that was in it. (TA.) [In the A
and TA this is said to be tropical; the authors
evidently holding it to be from ذَبَحَ in the sense
here next following.] ―
2-b2- He slaughtered [for
food, or sacrificed,] (L, TA) and animal, (Msb,)
or a sheep or goat, (S, TA,) or an ox or a cow,
and a sheep or goat, and the like, (Mgh,) [in the
manner prescribed by the law, i. e.,] by cutting
the وَدَجَانِ [or two external jugular veins], (Mgh,)
or by cutting the throat, from beneath, at the
part next the head: (L, TA:) accord. to the K,
i. q. نَحَرَ: but correctly, الذَّبْحُ is in the throat; and
النَّحْرُ is in the pit above the breast, between the
collar-bones, where camels are stabbed: the latter
word is used in relation to camels and bulls and
cows; and the former, in relation to other animals:
or, not improbably, both may have originally
signified the causing the soul to depart by wounding
the throat, or the pit above the breast, which is
the stabbing-place in the camel; and may then
have been applied in peculiar [and different]
senses by the lawyers. (MF. [See also ذَكَاةٌ, in
art. ذكو.]) Also (assumed tropical:) He slaughtered, or slew, in
any manner. (L.) [You say, ذَبَحَ عَنْهُ He
slaughtered, or sacrificed, for him, by way of expiation.] And ذَبَحَ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا (assumed tropical:) [They slaughtered,
or slew, one another]. (S, K.) And أَخَذَهُمْ بَنُو
فُلَانٍ بِالذُّبَاحِ (assumed tropical:) The sons of such a one slaughtered,
or slew, them. (TA.) And ↓ ذبّح (inf. n. تَذْبِيحٌ,
KL) signifies the same as ذَبَحَ, except that it
applies [only] to many objects; whereas the latter
applies to few and to many: thus it is said in the
Kur [ii. 46, and in like manner in xiv. 6],
يُذَبِّحُونَ أَبْنَآءَكُمْ (assumed tropical:) [They slaughtering, or slaying,
your sons], accord. to the reading commonly
obtaining. (Aboo-Is-hák, TA.) ―
2-b3- Hence, (tropical:) He
killed; because الذَّبْحُ [in its proper sense, when
the object is an animal,] is one of the quickest
modes of killing. (TA.) It is said in a trad.,
(Mgh, TA,) cautioning against accepting the
office of a Kádee, (Mgh,) مَنْ جُعِلَ قَاضِيًا بَيْنَ
النَّاسِ فَكَأَنَّمَا ذُبِحَ بِغَيْرِ سِكِّينٍ (tropical:) [Whoso is made a
Kádee among the people, he is as though he were
slaughtered without a knife]: (Mgh, TA: *) expl.
by some as meaning, (tropical:) he is as though he were
killed [&c.]. (TA.) ―
2-b4- [Hence, also, because
الذَّبْحُ renders the flesh of an animal allowable, or
lawful, as food,] (tropical:) It rendered allowable, or lawful: as salt and the sun and the fishes called
نِينَان (pl. of نُونٌ) do wine, by changing its
quality, as is said in a trad. (TA.) ―
2-b5- Also (tropical:) He
broached, or pierced, a دَنّ [or wine-jar, making
a hole in the mouth, or removing the clay that
closed the mouth], so as to draw forth the contents. (S, A, Msb, K.) ―
2-b6- And (tropical:) He, or it,
choked. (K, TA.) You say, ذَبَحَتْهُ العَبْرَةُ (tropical:) Weeping choked him. (A, TA.) ―
2-b7- And, said of thirst,
(tropical:) It affected him severely, or distressed him.
(A, TA.) ―
2-b8- ذَبَحَتِ اللِّحْيَةُ فُلَانًا (tropical:) The beard
flowed down beneath the chin of such a one so
that the anterior portion of the part beneath his
lower jaw was apparent: in which case, the man
is said to be مَذْبُوحٌ ↓ بِلِحْيَتِهِ. (K, TA.)