عَذْبٌ

Sweet water: (S, O:) or water, (Msb,) or wine, or beverage, and food, (K,) that is easy and agreeable to be drunk or swallowed: (Msb, K:) plural عِذَابٌ (O, Msb, TA) and عُذُوبٌ. (TA.) You say رَكِيَّةٌ عَذْبَةٌ [A well of sweet water] : and مَاءٌ عَذْبٌ [sweet water]: and also مَاءَةٌ عَذْبَةٌ [a sweet water]: and مَاءٌ عِذَابٌ [sweet water or waters], using a plural epithet in this last case because مَاءٌ is a coll. gen. n., of which مَاءَةٌ is the n. un. (TA.) And Aboo-Heiyeh En-Nemeree says, describing water,

لَهُ غَلَلٌ بَيْنَ الإِجَامِ عُذُوبُ

[Having sweet water permeating amid the reedbeds, or the thickets]: he uses غَلَلٌ as a coll. gen. n., and therefore pluralizes the epithet. (L, TA.)

One says also نِساءٌ عِذَابُ الثَّنَايَا (assumed tropical:) [Women sweet in respect of the front teeth]. (A.)

And إِنَّهُ لَعَذْبُ اللِّسَانِ (assumed tropical:) [Verily he is sweet in respect of the tongue]; likening his tongue to the water that is termed عَذْب. (Lh, TA.)

Also A sort of trees; (K, TA;) the same that is called عَذَبٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)