Hyena
animal · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the hyena · Naʻthal · الضباع · ضبيعة · نعثل · ḍubayʻah
spoken of as
1 expressionthe hyena1 mention
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
By-naming may be for praise, as you have seen, or for blame — as their calling ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān “Naʻthal,” which is the male of the hyenas;
in the texts
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The scavenger whose male, Naʻthal, supplied the mocking by-name of the caliph ʻUthmān, and whose diminutive stands behind the clan name Ḍubayʻah.
By-naming may be for praise, as you have seen, or for blame — as their calling ʻUthmān ibn ʻAffān “Naʻthal,” which is the male of the hyenas;
De Pallio
Animal cited for alternating sex, illustrating natural change.
The hyena, if you observe, is of a yearly sex, alternating male and female.