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1 عَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ ذ , (S, Mgh, O, K, *) aor. عَتِبَ (S, Mgh, O, K) and عَتُبَ , (S, O, K,) inf. n. عَتْبٌ (S, Mgh, O, K) and عَتَبَانٌ or عَتْبَانٌ or عِتْبَانٌ or عُتْبَانٌ (accord. to different copies of the K) and مَعْتَبٌ, (S, O, K,) with which ↓ مَعْتَبَةٌ and ↓ مَعْتِبَةٌ are syn., (K,) but these two are simple substs.; (S, O; [see, however, خَمُصَ;]) and عَلَيْهِ ↓ تعتّب ; (S, O, TA;) He was angry with him, (S, Mgh, O, K, TA,) with the anger that proceeds from a friend. (S, * Mgh, * O, * K, * TA.) It is said in a trad., مَا لَهُ تَرِبَتْ ↓ كَانَ يَقُوُلُ لِأَحَدِنَا عَنِ المَعْتَبَةِ يَمِنيُهُ [He used to say of one of us, from a motive of friendly anger, What aileth him? May his right hand (meaning he himself) cleave to the dust: see تَرِبَ]. (TA.) ― -b2- And [sometimes] عَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ signifies [simply] He was angry with him. (Mgh, TA. *) A poet says, (S, O, TA,) namely, El-Ghatammash (O, TA) Ed-Dabbee, (TA,) “ أَخِلَّاىَ لَوْ غَيْرُ الحِمَامِ أَصَابَكُمْ
عَتَبْتُ وَلٰكِنْ مَا عَلَى الدَّهْرش مَعْتَبُ
” (S, O, TA; but in the O, عَلَى المَوْتِ, and أَخِلَّآءِ as well as أَخِلَّاىَ, as in the Ham p. 406;) meaning [O my friends, had some other event than the decreed case of death befallen you,] I had been angry: [but there is no being angry with fortune:] i. e., had ye fallen in war, we had taken your blood-revenge: but one cannot revenge himself upon fortune. (TA.) ― -b3- And عَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ, (Msb, K, * TA, *) aor. عَتِبَ and عَتُبَ , inf. n. عَتْبٌ (Msb, K, TA) and عِتِّيبَى [an intensive form] (K, TA) and عِتْبَانٌ (Az, TA) and مَعْتَبٌ, (Msb,) signifies also He reproved, blamed, or censured, him; (K, TA;) and so ↓ عاتبهُ , (TA,) inf. n. مُعَاتَبَةٌ and عِتَابٌ: (K, TA:) or he reproved, blamed, or censured, him, in anger, or displeasure. (Msb.) A poet says, “ فَلَيْسَ وُدٌّ ↓ إِِذَا ذَهَبَ العِتَابُ
وَيَبْقَى الوُدَّ مَا بَقِىَ العِتَابُ
” [When reproof departs, there is no love: but love lasts as long as reproof lasts]. (S, * O, TA.) عَتْبٌ and عِتْبَانٌ signify Thy reproving a man for evil conduct that he has shown towards thee, and from which thou hast desired him to return to what will please thee, or make thee happy. (Az, TA. [See also the latter word below.]) -A2- مَا عَتَبْتُ بَابَهُ means I did not tread, or have not trodden, upon the threshold (عَتَبَة) of his door; (A, K, TA;) and so ↓ مَا تَعَتَّبْتُهُ . (A, TA.) ― -b2- And [hence,] عَتَبَ, aor. عَتُبَ and عَتِبَ , inf. n. عَتَبَانٌ (S, O, K) and عَتْبٌ and تَعْتَابٌ, [this last an intensive form,] (K,) (tropical:) He (a stallion [camel], TA) limped, or halted: (K, TA:) or knocked his knees together, or had a distortion in a hind leg: or was hamstrung: (TA:) and he (a camel, S, O, or a stallion [camel], TA) walked upon three legs, (S, O, K, TA,) in consequence of his having been hamstrung, (K, TA,) or in consequence of his knees' knocking together, or of his having a distortion in a hind leg; as though he leaped: (TA:) and he (a man) leaped on one foot, or hopped, (S, O, K,) raising the other: (K:) in each of these cases, the beast or man is likened to one walking upon a series of steps, or the like, of stairs, (O, TA,) or of a mountain, or of rugged ground, (TA,) and leaping from one of these to another. (O, TA.) ― -b3- And عَتَبَ البَرْقُ, aor. عَتُبَ and عَتِبَ , inf. n. عَتَبَانٌ, (assumed tropical:) The lightning flashed in continued succession. (TA.) ― -b4- And عَتَبَ مِنْ مَوْضِعٍ إِِلَى مَوْضِعٍ, aor. عَتِبَ [and app. عَتُبَ also], (assumed tropical:) He passed [from place to place], and مِنْ قَوْلٍ إِِلَى قَوْلٍ [from saying to saying]. (O, TA.) ― -b5- And عتب القَوْمُ فِى السَّيْرِ [i. e. عَتَبَ, though Freytag assigns this meaning to عَتَّبَ,] (assumed tropical:) The people, or party, turned aside in journeying, and alighted in a place not in the right, or intended, direction. (Ham p. 18. [See also 4 and 8.]) -A3- See also أُعْتِبَ, said of a bone.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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