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2 رَجَّبَ see 1, in three places. ― -b2- Hence, (S,) تَرْجِيبٌ signifies also The sacrificing a victim, or victims, in the month of Rejeb: (S, K:) for the [pagan] Arabs used to slaughter animals as sacrifices in that month. (TA.) The days of the said sacrifice were called أَيَّامُ تَرْجِيبٍ: and the victim was called عَتِيرَةٌ (S, TA) and ↓ رَجَبِيَّةٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- رجبّ الشَّجَرَةَ, (Msb,) inf. n. تَرْجِيبٌ, (S,) He propped up the tree, because of the abundance of its fruit, lest its branches should break; (S, Msb;) sometimes by building a wall, for it to rest upon, because of its weakness: (S:) or تَرْجِيبُ نَخْلَةٍ signifies the building, at the foot of a palm-tree, a structure of the kind called دُكَّان, which is termed رُجْبَةٌ, for it to rest upon, (K, TA,) because of its leaning, and its being valuable to him, and being weak: (TA:) or the propping up a valuable palm-tree, when it is feared that it will fall, because of its tallness and the abundance of its fruit, by means of a structure of stones: and also the putting thorns round a palm-tree, lest any one should climb it, and pluck its fruit: (T, TA:) or [in the CK “ and ”] the attaching the racemes of a palm-tree to its branches, binding them with palm-leaves, lest the wind should shake off the fruit: (K, TA:) or the putting thorns round the racemes of a palm-tree, lest anyone should be able to take and eat them: (K, * TA:) and hence the saying cited below, voce مُرَجَّبٌ. (K.) You say [also], أَوْقَرَتْ نَخْلُهُمْ ↓ فَأَرْجَبُوهَا , meaning [Their palm-trees became laden, or heavily laden, with fruit,] and they consequently propped them up. (A. [But the verb, here, may perhaps be mistranscribed; for the verb commonly known in this sense is not mentioned in the copy of the A from which this i ? taken.]) Selámeh Ibn-Jendel says, describing some horses, “ كَأَنَّ أَعْنَاقَهَا أَنْصَابُ تَرْجِيبِ
” meaning As though their necks were propped palm-trees: or, as some say, the stones on which the victims slain in Rejeb are sacrificed. (TA.) ― -b4- تَرْجِيبُ كَرْمٍ The disposing evenly the shoots of a grape-vine, and putting it in its [appropriate] places, (K, TA,) by means of props. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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