ذرب1 ذَرِبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. ذَرَبٌ (M, A, Msb, K) and ذَرَابَةٌ, (S, * M, A, K,) said of a sword, and a spear-head, (A,) or of a thing (M, Msb) of any kind, (M,) It was, or became, sharp, (S, * M, A, Msb, K,) and cutting, or penetrating: (Msb:) or, said of a sword, and of a spear-head, it signifies [or signifies also] it was steeped in, or imbued with, poison. (A.) b2:  ذَرِبَ لِسَانُهُ, aor.  as above, [and so the inf. n.], His tongue was, or became, sharp [properly speaking, i. e. sharp in the extremity: (see ذَرِبٌ:) and also tropically, i. e., in a good sense, as meaning (assumed tropical:)  chaste, or eloquent; without barbarousness, or vitiousness, or impediment: and in a bad sense, as meaning (assumed tropical:)  profuse of speech; or clamorous: bad, or corrupt: foul, unseemly, or obscene]: he cared not what he said. (TA.) [For] ذَرَبٌ (S, M, A, TA) and ذَرَابَةٌ (S, A, TA) signify Sharpness of the tongue [properly speaking, or, as is said in the A, tropically]: (S, M, A, TA:) and the former, (TA,) or the latter, (Msb,) [or each.] metaphorically, (TA,) (tropical:)  chasteness, or eloquence, thereof; (Msb, TA;) without barbarousness, or vitiousness, or impediment; a quality approved: and (tropical:)  profuseness, or clamorousness, thereof; a quality disapproved: (TA:) and the former, [or each,] (assumed tropical:)  badness, or corruptness, thereof: (M, K:) and the former, (Az, S, M, K,) or the latter, (Msb,) or each, (A,) (tropical:)  foulness, or obscenity, thereof: (Az, S, M, A, Msb, K:) and the pl. of the former [used as a simple subst.] is أَذْرَابٌ. (Az, IAar, S, M, K.) A poet says, (S,) namely, Hadramee Ibn-'Ámir  El-Asadee, (TA,) وَلَقَدْ طَوَيْتُكُمُ عَلَى بُلَلَاتِكُمْ وَ عَرَفْتُ مَا فِيكُمْ مِنَ الأَذْرَابِ (tropical:)  [And I have borne with you not withstanding your vices and evil actions, and have known what is in you of foul, or obscene, qualities of the tongue]; (Az, S:) [or] على بُلَلَاتِكُمْ (IAar, M, TA) means notwithstanding what is in you of annoyance and enmity: (TA:) but accord. to Th, he said, الأَعْيَابِ, pl. of عَيْبٌ. (M, TA.) [Accord. to Z,] فِيهِمْ أَذْرَابٌ means (tropical:)  In them are [qualities that are] causes of evil, corruption, wrong, injury, or the like. (A.) b3:  ذَرِبَتْ مَعِدَتُهُ, (T, S, M, A, Msb,) aor. ـَ (S, Msb,) inf. n. ذَرَبٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and ذَرَابَةٌ and ذُرُوبَةٌ, (M, K,) (assumed tropical:)  His  stomach was, or became, sharp, or keen, by reason of hunger: (M; but only the first of the inf. ns. of the verb in this sense, and not the verb itself, is there mentioned:) [or] (assumed tropical:)  his stomach was, or became, in a good, or right, state: (K; but only the inf. ns. of the verb in this sense, and in the next, and not the verb itself, is there mentioned:) and also, (M, K,) (tropical:)  his stomach was, or became, in a bad, or corrupt, state: (T, S, M, A, Msb, K:) thus having two contr. significations. (M, K.) b4:  ذَرِبَ الجُرْحُ, (S, M, A,) inf. n. ذَرَبٌ, (S, M, K,) (tropical:)  The wound admitted not of cure: (S, A:) or was, or became, in a bad, or corrupt, state, and wide, (M, K,) and admitted not of cure: (M:) or flowed with صَدِيد [i. e. ichor  tinged with blood]. (M, K.) b5:  ذَرِبَ أَنْفُهُ, inf. n. ذَرَابَةٌ, (assumed tropical:)  His nose dripped; let fall drops. (M.) A2:  ذَرَبَ: see 2, in two places. b2:  [Hence,] ذَرَبْتُ فُلَانًا (tropical:)  I excited, or provoked, [or exasperated,] such a one. (A.) And فُلَانٌ يَضْرِبُ بَيْنَنَا وَيَذْرِبُ (tropical:)  [app. Such a one makes a separation between us, (see ضَرَبَ,) and excites discord: يَذْرِبُ is perhaps here used for يَذْرُبُ, to assimilate it to يَضْرِبُ]. (A.) 2 ذرّب, (M, K,) inf. n. تَذْرِيبٌ, (S,) He sharpened (M, S, K) an iron instrument [such as a sword and a spear-head &c.]; (M;) as also ↓ ذَرَبَ, (M, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (M, L, Msb, TA,) accord. to the K ذَرَبَ, but this is without any other authority, and contr. to analogy, as neither its third nor its second letter is a faucial, (TA,) inf. n. ذَرْبٌ; (M, Msb, TA;) and ↓ اذرب. (KL.) Also, inf. n. as above, He poisoned a sword, i. e. steeped it in poison, and, when it was well steeped, took it forth and sharpened it; and ↓ ذَرَبَ, likewise, is allowable. (T, TA.) A2:  The inf. n. also signifies A woman's holding her infant in order that it may satisfy its want [by evacuation, as the words in the explanation (حَتَّى يَقْضِىَ حَاجَتَهُ) commonly mean, not, as Freytag supposes, by sucking]. (T, K.) 4 ا see 2.A2:  Also (assumed tropical:)  He became chaste in speech, after having been barbarous therein. (IAar, T in art. ربذ, and TA.) b2:  And (assumed tropical:)  His  life became bad, or corrupt. (IAar, T in art. ربد, and TA.) ذَرْبٌ, (so in the CK and in a MS copy of the K,) or ↓ ذَرِبٌ, (so accord. to the TA, [which is followed by the TK, and so in my MS copy of the K, but altered from ذَرْبٌ, which I incline to think the right reading,]) A shoemaker's إِزْمِيل [a word well known as signifying his knife, with which he cuts the leather, but here explained in the TA as signifying his إِشْفَى with which he sews]. (K.) ذُرْبٌ an irreg. pl. of ذَرِبٌ, q. v.ذِرْبٌ i. q. غُدَّةٌ [i. e. A ganglion; &c.]: (Az, T:) or so ↓ ذِرْبَةٌ: and both signify a certain thing that is sometimes in the neck of a human being or of a beast, like a pebble: or the former word signifies a certain disease in the liver, (K, TA,) slow of cure: (TA:) the pl. of the former is ذِرَبٌ, (K,) or ذِرَبَةٌ, (Az, T,) or this latter is pl. of ذِرْبَةٌ. (TA.) ذَرَبٌ an inf. n. of ذَرِبَ [q. v. passim]. (T, S, M, &c.) b2:  See also ذَرَبَيَّا: and see there a pl. or a dual form, in three places. b3:  Also (assumed tropical:)  An incurable disease: (M, K:) [in the present day applied to diarrhœa; and this is app. meant by what follows:] a disease that attacks the stomach, in consequence of which it does not digest the food; becoming in a bad, or corrupt, state, and not retaining the food. (L.) b4:  And (assumed tropical:)  Rust. (S, K.) ذَرِبٌ Sharp; (T, S, M, K;) applied to anything, (S, M,) as, for instance, a sword, (S,) or a spearhead; and so ↓ مَذْرُوبٌ: (T:) or this latter, applied to a spear-head [&c.], signifies sharpened; (S;) as also ↓ مُذَرَّبٌ: (T, S:) or ذَرِبٌ (A, TA) and ↓ مُذَرَّبٌ (M, K) and ↓ مَذْرُوبٌ, (T, TA,) applied to a sword (T, M, A, K) and a spearhead, (A, TA,) signify [or signify also] poisoned; (A, K;) i. e. steeped in, or imbued with, poison, (T, M, A, TA,) and then sharpened. (T, M, TA.) And سُمٌّ ذَرِبٌ means Sharp poison. (M, A.) A rájiz says, (referring to cattle, TA,) دَبَّتْ عَلَيْهَا ذَرِبَاتُ الأَنْبَارْ meaning [Upon which have crept insects resembling ticks, that produce swellings where they creep,] sharp in stinging. (S.) b2:  لِسَانٌ ذَرِبٌ [properly signifies] A tongue sharp in the extremity. (M, TA.) Tropically, (A,) (tropical:)  A sharp tongue; (S, A, TA;) as also ↓ مَذْرُوبٌ: (TA:) (assumed tropical:)  a chaste, or an eloquent, tongue: (Msb:) [and (assumed tropical:)  a profuse, or clamorous, tongue: (see ذَرِبَ:)] and (assumed tropical:)  a foul, or an obscene, tongue. (Msb.) and ذَرِبُ اللِّسَانِ (assumed tropical:)  Sharp in tongue: (TA:) [(assumed tropical:)  profuse, or clamorous, therein; long-tongued: (see ذَرِبَ:)] (assumed tropical:)  bad, or corrupt, in tongue: (Abu-l-'Abbás [Th], TA:) (assumed tropical:)  wont to revile; (T;) foul, or obscene, in tongue; (ISh, T, TA;) who cares not what he says. (ISh, TA.) And ذَرِبٌ, alone, (assumed tropical:)  Sharptongued: and (tropical:)  long-tongued, or clamorous; or foul, or obscene, in tongue: (K, * TA:) and so ذَرِبَةٌ, applied to a woman; (Az, T, S, A, Msb; *) and ↓ ذِرْبَةٌ: (Az, T, S, M, K:) this last [is app. a contraction of ذَرِبَةٌ, and used by poetic license: it] is applied by a rájiz to his wife, (T, S, *) as meaning (tropical:)  bad, or corrupt, and unfaithful to her husband in respect of her فَرْج; or, accord. to Sh, it means long-tongued; and foul, or obscene, in speech: (T:) and ↓ مَذْرُوبٌ likewise, accord. to Sh, means foul, or obscene, in speech: (TA:) the pl. of ذَرِبٌ is ↓ ذُرْبٌ, (K,) which is irreg.; (TA;) meaning (assumed tropical:)  sharp; (M, K;) and (assumed tropical:)  sharp in tongue [&c.]: (K:) and the pl. of ↓ ذِرْبَةٌ is ذِرَبٌ. (T, S, M.) b3:  مَعِدَةٌ ذَرِبَةٌ [(assumed tropical:)  A stomach sharp, or keen, by reason of hunger: or (assumed tropical:)  in a good, or right, state: (see ذَرِبَتْ مَعِدَتُهُ:) and also, the contr., i. e.] (tropical:)  a stomach in a bad, or corrupt, state. (M, TA.) b4:  جُرحٌ ذَرِبٌ (tropical:)  A wound in a bad, or corrupt, state, and wide, and not admitting of cure: or flowing with صَدِيد [i. e. ichor tinged with blood]. (M, TA.) b5:  ذَرِبُ الخُلُقِ (tropical:)  A man of a bad, or corrupt, natural disposition. (A, TA.) A2: See also ذَرْبٌ.ذِرْبَةٌ: see ذِرْبٌ: b2:  and see also ذَرِبٌ, in two places.الذَّرِبَة: see what next follows.ذَرَبَى: see what next follows.ذَرَبِىٌّ: see what next follows.ذَرَبَيَّةٌ: see what next follows.ذَرَبَيَّا (assumed tropical:)  A vice, fault, defect, or the like; as also ↓ ذَرَبَى. (K.) b2:  And A calamity, or misfortune; (S, M, K;) from ذَرِبَ الجُرْحُ meaning “ the wound admitted not of cure; ” (S;) as also ↓ ذَرَبَّى, (K, TA,) or ↓ ذَرَبِىٌّ, (so accord. to the CK,) and ↓ ذَرَبَيَّةٌ [or ذَرَبِيَّةٌ?]. (TA.) El-Kumeyt says, مَانِى بِالذَّرَبَيَّا meaning (assumed tropical:)  [He smote me, or afflicted me,,] with  calamity, or misfortune: or with evil, or mischief; and discord, or dissension; (T;) as also ↓ بِالذَّرَبَينَ [in the form of a pl. applied to rational beings, as though denoting personifications], (K, accord. to the TA,) or ↓ بِالذَّّرَبَيْنِ [in the dual form]; (so in the CK and in my MS copy of the K;) which likewise means with calamity, or misfortune. (TA.) And لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ الذَّرَبَيَّا and ↓ الذَّرِبَةَ and ↓ الذربَين, [thus this last is written in the TT as from the M,] meaning (assumed tropical:)  [I experienced from him, or it,] calamity, or misfortune. (M.) And ↓ أُلْقِىَ بَيْنَهُمْ الذَّرَبَ (assumed tropical:)  Evil, or mischief, and discord, or dissension, were cast among them, or between them. (T.) ذَرَبَّى: see the next preceding paragraph.ذُرَابٌ Poison. (Kr, M, A, K.) ذِرْيَبٌ A yellow flower: (K:) or yellow, applied to a flower and to other things. (M.) صُوفٌ أَذْرَبِىٌّ Wool of Ádharbeeján or Adharbeeján or Adhrabeeján; for there are different opinions respecting the orthography of this name: (TA:) أَذْرَبِىٌّ is a rel. n. from اذربيجان: (K, TA:) contr. to rule; for by rule it should be أَذَرِىٌّ or أَذْرِىٌّ. (IAth, TA.) مِذْرَبٌ The tongue: (K:) so called because of its sharpness. (TA.) مُذَرَّبٌ: see ذَرِبٌ, in two places.مَذْرُوبٌ: see ذَرِبٌ, in four places.