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طَبَعٌ ذ Dirtiness, (S, Msb,) or dirt: (S:) or, as also ↓ طِبْعٌ , rustiness, or rust, (O, K, TA,) upon iron; (TA;) and dirtiness, or dirt, (O, K, TA,) covering the sword: (TA:) or the former signifies much dirtiness or dirt, from rust: (Lth, O, K:) pl. أَطْبَاعٌ. (K. [See طَبِعَ, of which طَبَعٌ is the inf. n.]) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) Disgrace, or dishonour; (A'Obeyd, O, K, TA;) and so ↓ طِيْعٌ ; (TA;) it is in religion, or in respect of worldly things. (A'Obeyd, TA.) Thábit-Kutneh says, in a verse ascribed by Et-Tanookhee to 'Orweh Ibn-Udheyneh, “ لَا خَيْرَ فِى طَمَعٍ يَهْدِى إِِلَى طَبَعٍ
وَغُفَّةٌ مِنْ قِوَامِ العَيْشِ تَكْفِينِى
” [There is no good in coveting, or covetousness, that leads to disgrace: and a sufficiency of the means of subsistence contents me]: (O, TA:) يَهْدِى in this case means يُؤَدِّى. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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