Al-Ḍabu‘ is the female; the male is called al-ḍib‘ān and al-dhaykh. Among its other names are:
Haḍājir "Whose Gut Is Huge"
Jay’al "The Female Hulk"
Ja‘āri "Craps-a-Lot"
Qasāmi "Divider-up [of Carcasses]"
Naqāthi "Bone-Sucker," from its [habit of] extracting marrow from
bones, as in the anonymous rajaz verse:
Jā’at Naqāthi taḥmilu 'l-birdhawnā
"Along came Bone-sucker, carrying [part of?] an old horse..."
al-‘Arfā’, for the length of its ‘urf [which is its mane]
al-‘Athwā’ "The Bearded Lady," for the denseness of its hair
al-‘Arjā’ "Whose Gait is Limping"
al-Khāmi‘a "Whose Gait is Loping"
Umm Hinbir "Mother of the Flesh-Tearer"
Umm Khannūr "Mother of the Anus," also Umm Khunnūr
The hyena pup is called fur‘ul. The hyena's den is a wijār.
The offspring of hyena and the wolf is called al-Sim‘ "The Sharp-Eared" (?) and Abū Sabara "Father to the Wound-Prober." Dissenting opinion holds that the sim‘ is a cross between wolf and dog, and that the offspring of wolf and hyena is called al-‘Usbūr.
From The Rudiments of Lexicography by al-Khaṭīb al-Iskāfī
