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 plural of the former is ذِرَبٌ, (K,) or ذِرَبَةٌ, (AZ, T,) or this latter is plural of ذِرْبَةٌ. (TA.)