زرياب doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• زِرْيَابٌ

  زِرْيَابٌ ذ , (in the CK زِرْباب,) an arabicized word, (K, TA,) from [the Pers.] زَرْ آبْ, the hemzeh [in آبْ, for أَابْ,] being changed into ى, (TA,) Gold: (IAar, K:) or the water thereof [i. e. water-gold; which may …

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