ذَابَ

, (T, S, M, &c.,) aorist يَذُوبُ, (T, S, Msb,) verbal noun ذَوْبٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and ذَوَبَانٌ, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) It melted, dissolved, or became fluid or liquid; opposite of جَمَدَ: (S, M, A, K:) it flowed. (T, Msb.)

[Hence,] ذاب دَمْعُهُ (tropical:) [His tears flowed]. (A.) And ذَابَتْ حَدَقَتُهُ (tropical:) [His eye] shed tears; (A;) or flowed [with tears]. (T.)

ذاب جِسْمُهُ (tropical:) His body became lean, or emaciated: one says, ثَابَ بَعْدَمَا ذَابَ (tropical:) [He became fat after he had been lean]. (A.)

And ذَابَ [alone] (assumed tropical:) He became foolish, or stupid, after having been intelligent. (T, K.)

نَحْنُ لَا نَجْمُدُ فِى الحَقِّ وَلَا نَذُوبُ فِى البَاطِلِ (tropical:) [We will not be hard, or niggardly, in the case of truth, or right, nor will we be soft, or easily yielding, in the case of falsity, or wrong]. (A.)

هٰذَا الكَلَامُ فِيهِ ذَوْبُ الرُّوحِ (tropical:) [This speech, or discourse, contains that which melts the soul]. (A.)

ذَابَتِ الشَّمْسُ [and ↓ استذابت (as is shown by a phrase mentioned in the L in article صخد)] (tropical:) The sun became intensely hot. (S, A, K.)

أَذُوبُ اللَّيَالِى أَوْيُجِيبُ صَدَاكُمَا

occurring in a tradition of Kuss, means (assumed tropical:) I will wait in expectation during the lapse of the nights [or the echo of you two shall answer]; from الإِذَابَةُ, which signifies “ spoil, booty, or plunder. ” (TA.)

مَا ذَابَ فِى يَدِى شَىْءٌ (assumed tropical:) There remained not in my hand anything. (AHeyth, TA.) And مَا ذَابَ فِى يَدَيْهِ مِنْهُ خَيْرٌ, (M,) or فِى يَدِى, (K,) (assumed tropical:) There came not [into his hands, or into my hands, from him, or it, any good]. (M, K.)

ذاب عَلَيْهِ المَالُ (assumed tropical:) The property became, or proved to be, binding, obligatory, or incumbent, on him to render as a debt. (T.) And ذاب لِى عَلَيْهِ حَقٌّ (tropical:) A right, or due, was, or became, incumbent, or obligatory, on him to render to me, and established against him. (S, A, Mgh, K. *) And ذاب عَلَيْهِ مِنَ الأَمْرِ كَذَا, verbal noun ذَوْبٌ, (assumed tropical:) Such a part of the thing, or affair, was, or became, incumbent, or obligatory, on him; like جَمَدَ and بَرَدَ. (M.)

-A2- ذاب also signifies He continued in the eating of ذَوْب i. e. honey. (T, L, K. *)