جَابٍ

A collector of water for camels: belonging to arts. جبو and جبى. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) The locust (K) that collects everything by eating it; as also جَابِىءٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) The Arabs say, إِذَا جَاءَتِ السَّنَةُ جَاءَ مَعَهَا الجَابِى وَالجَانِى, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [When the year of drought comes,] the locust and the wolf [come with it]. (IAar, TA.)