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مُعَصَّبُ ذ , (S, O, TA,) accord. to the author of the K ↓ مُعَصِّبٌ , like مَحَدِّثٌ, in all its senses there explained, but accord. to others like مُعَظَّمٌ, (TA,) One having his waist bound round in consequence of hunger; (S, O;) one who binds round his body (يَتَعَصَّبُ) with pieces of a garment or of cloth, by reason of hunger; (K, TA;) one who, in consequence of leanness occasioned by hunger, binds round his belly with a stone [placed under the bandage: see مَعْصُوبٌ]: (TA:) or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, one whose property, or cattle, years of drought, or sterility, have eaten up: (S, O:) [or] it signifies also a poor man. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And Turbaned; attired with a turban; (O, L, TA;) [as also ↓ مُعْتَصِبٌ .] ― -b3- And [hence] (assumed tropical:) A chief; (K;) one made a chief. (Az, L, TA. [See 2.]) ― -b4- And [hence] (assumed tropical:) Crowned: (O:) or a crowned king; as also ↓ مُعْتَصِبٌ : (A, TA:) because the crown encircles the head like a turban. (Az, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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