Yes this is true, and so much more, they are names and titles of the lion in Arabic

this is the list of the names in Arabic :) http://www.scribd.com/doc/30465219/Lion-Names-in-Arabic-Language

Well, I have heard of the saying, though I have never really seen 72 words about lion. But you know, there are several words about lion in English too! Lion, lioness, cub, ... :D

Thank you Deyaa Addin and Ahmed Caliph!

it's even said that they are more than 80 names the Arabic language is so old and big , and there's a feature that it has that connects to its literature, which is mostly poetry . This literary linguistic feature is that when an image of something in a certain poetic line becomes famous , the image turns with time to bear the meaning of what it described . You can imagine what thousands of years of poetry , in which the strength of the lion was praise and imitated , can do to create many names for the lion !!