مِجْنَبٌ

A shield; (S, A, K;) because it wards off from its possessor what is displeasing to him; (A, TA;) also with damm to the م [apparently مُجْنِبٌ, act. particle n. of 4]. (K.)

A thing by which a person or thing is veiled, concealed, or hidden; a veil, curtain, or covering; (K, TA;) for a house, or chamber, or tent. (TA.)

A thing like a door, upon which the gatherer of honey stands; (K, TA;) he being let down [upon it] by means of ropes to [the place of] the honey [in the face of a rock or mountain]. (TA.)

A thing (شَبَحٌ [apparently here meaning a wooden implement]) resembling a comb without teeth (K, TA) and thinedged in its lowest part, (TA,) with which earth is raised upon, or against, the أَعْضَاد and فُلْجَان [or raised borders of watering-troughs or the like, and streamlets for irrigation]. (K, TA. [In the CK, الفِلْجانِ is put for الفُلْجانِ.])

The extreme part of the territory of the foreigners towards that of the Arabs: (S, K:) and the nearest part of the territory of the Arabs to that of the foreigners. (S)