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8 إِِقْتَضَبَ see 1, in two places. You say, اِقْتَضَبْتُهُ, meaning I cut it off from the thing. (S, O.) ― -b2- And [hence] one says, كَانَ يُحَدِّثُنَا فُلَانٌ فَجَآءَ زَيْدٌ فَا@قْتَضَبَ حَدِيثَهُ, meaning اِقْتَطَعَهُ and اِنْتَزَعَهُ [i. e. Such a one was talking to us, and Zeyd came, and broke off his talk, and turned it to what was wholly different in subject, or to what had but little connection with the subject of the former discourse: an ex. of a common conventional usage of اقتضب, mentioned in rhetorical treatises &c.; as when a poet breaks off his نَسِيب to enter upon the main subject of his ode]. (A.) ― -b3- And اقتضب (tropical:) He extemporized, or uttered without having prepared it, (S, M, A, O,) speech, (S, A, O,) or a narrative, and poetry, or verses. (M.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) He rode (S, A, K) a beast, (S,) or a she-camel, (A,) before it, or she, was trained, or broken-in; (S, A, K;) and (S, K) so ↓ قَضَبَ , (S, O, K,) aor. قَضَبَ. (K.) And (TA) (assumed tropical:) He took from the camels, and trained, one in an untrained state; (M, K;) as also ↓ اقتضبهُ . (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) He rode a young camel for a night, before it was trained. (TA.) ― -b5- And قَضْبٌ (assumed tropical:) He tasked him to do a deed, or work, before he was able to do it well. (M.) ― -b6- And (tropical:) He slaughtered him, namely, a camel, in a state of freedom from disease and in a fat and youthful condition. (A.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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