مِذَبَّةٌ

A thing with which one drives away flies; (S, M, K; *) a fly-whisk made of horse-hairs: (T:) [plural مَذَابٌ whence,] one says of wild-animals, أَذْنَابُهَا مَذَابُّهَا (tropical:) [Their tails are their fly-whisks]. (A.)