ذَنُوبٌ

A horse (T, S, &c.) having a long tail: (T, S:) or having a full, or an ample, tail. (M, A, K.) [See also أَذْنَبٌ.]

Hence applied to a day: see ذَنَبٌ, in the latter half of the paragraph.

Also A great دَلْو [or bucket]: (Fr, T, Msb:) or one that has a ↓ ذَنَب [or tail]: (TA:) or one that is full (S, M, Msb, K) of water; (S, Msb;) not applied to one that is empty: (S, TA:) or one that is nearly full of water: (ISk, S:) or one containing less than fills it: or one containing water: or a دَلْو (M, K) in any case: (M:) or a bucketful of water: (A:) masculine and feminine; (Fr, Lh, T, S, M, Msb;) sometimes the latter: (Lh, M:) plural (of pauc., S) أَذْنِبَةٌ and (of mult., S) ذَنَايءِبُ (S, M, K) and ذِنَابٌ. (M, A, * Msb, K.) Fr. cites as an example,

لَنَا ذَنُوبٌ وَلَكُمْ ذَنُوبُ

فَإِنْ أَبَيْتُمْ فَلَنَا القَلِيبُ

[as meaning For you shall be a great bucket, and for us a great bucket: or, if ye refuse this, for us shall be the well]. (T.) [Accord. to the K, it also signifies A grave: but this is evidently a mistake, which seems to have arisen from a misunderstanding of a statement by ISd, who says,] Aboo-Dhu-eyb uses it metaphorically in relation to a grave, calling it [i. e. the grave] a well, in his saying,

فَكُنْتُ ذَنُوبَ البِيءْرَ لَمَّا تَبَسَّلَتْ

وَسُرْبِلْتُ أَكْفَانِى وَوُسِّدْتُ سَاعِدِى

[apparently meaning (tropical:) And I was as though I were the corpse of the grave (lit. the bucket of the well) when she frowned, and clad with my grave-clothes, and made to recline upon my upper arm: for the corpse is laid in the grave upon its right side, or so inclined that the face is turned towards Mekkeh]. (M.) [And Umeiyeh Ibn-Abee- 'Áïdh El-Hudhalee, describing a wild he-ass and she-asses, likens to it a certain rate of running which he contrasts with another rate likened by him to a well such as is termed خَسِيفٌ: see Kosegarten's “ Carmina Hudsailitarum, ” p. 189.]

Hence metaphorically applied to (tropical:) Rain. (Ham p. 410.)

[Hence, also,] (tropical:) A lot, share, or portion: (Fr, T, S, M, A, Msb, K:) [see the former of the two verses cited in this paragraph:] in this sense masculine: (Msb:) and in this sense it is used in the Qur'an, 51, last verse but one. (Fr, T, M.)

-A2- Also (tropical:) The flesh of the [portion of the back next the back-bone, on either side, which is called the] مَتْن: (M, K:) or the part where the مَتْن ends; (M;) the flesh of the lower, or lowest, part of the مَتْن: (S:) or the [buttocks, or parts called] أَلْيَة and مَأْكِم: (M, K:) or the flesh of the أَلْيَة and مَاكِم: (CK:) and the ذَنُوبَانِ are the [two parts called the] مَتْنَانِ, (M, K,) on this side and on that [of the back-bone]: (M:) or ذَنُوبُ المَتْنِ means the flesh that is called يَرَابِيعُ المَتْنِ [which are the portions of flesh next the back-bone, on either side thereof]. (A.)