ذَبْذَبٌ

, (T,) verbal noun ذَبْذَبَةٌ, (K,) He defended his neighbours and family. (T, K.) [See also 1.]

And He annoyed, molested, harmed, or hurt, (T, K,) people. (K.)

And He made a thing to dangle, or move to and fro; (L;) and made it to be in a state of motion, commotion, or agitation. (L, K. *)

[Hence,] ذَبْذَبَهُ, verbal noun as above, (assumed tropical:) He left him, or made him to be, confounded, or perplexed, not knowing his right course; wavering, vacillating, or going to and fro. (Msb.)

ذَبْذَبَةٌ also signifies The dangling, or moving to and fro, of a thing suspended in the air: (S, M:) and تَذَبْذُبٌ the being in a state of motion or commotion: (S, L:) [or the latter has both these meanings; for] you say, الشَّىْءُ تَذَبْذَبَ the thing dangled, or moved to and fro, (M, A, L,) in the air; (A;) and was in a state of commotion or agitation. (M, L.) It is said in a tradition, فَكَأَنِّىأَنْظُرُ إِلَى يَدَيْهِ تُذَبْذِبَانِ, meaning And it was as though I looked at his two sleeves in a state of commotion, or shaking. (TA.) And you say, بَيْنَ أَمْرَيْنِ تذَبْذَبَ (assumed tropical:) He wavered, or vacillated, between two affairs. (MA.) And أَمْرُهُمْ تَذَبْذَبَ (assumed tropical:) [Their state of affairs was, or became, fluctuating, or unsteady]. (Lh, T in article دل.)