طَاعُونٌ

(tropical:) An epidemic disease; (TA;) [i. e.] plague, or pestilence, synonym وَبَأ or وَبَاء, (K, TA,) by reason of which the air is vitiated, and by it the constitutions and the bodies are vitiated: (TA:) or the kind of وَبَأ with which men are smitten by the jinn, or genii: (TA voce وَبَأٌ, q. v.:) or a mortality in consequence of وَبَأ: (S, Msb:) plural طَوَاعِينُ: (S, Msb, K:) it is a tropical term from الطَّعْنُ, because the طَوَاعِين are called by them رِمَاحُ الجِنِّ [the spears of the jinn, or genii]. (Z, TA.)