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ربك

1 رَبَكَهُ ذ , (S, K,) [like لَبَكَهُ,] aor. رَبُكَ , inf. n. رَبْكٌ, (S, TA,) He mixed, or mingled, it. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also, (K,) aor. as above, (TA,) and so the inf. n., (S, TA,) He made it good, or qualified it properly, namely, ثَرِيد [i. e. crumbled, or broken, bread, moistened with broth], (S, K, TA,) and mixed it with some other thing. (TA.) ― -b3- And رَبَكَ رَبِيكَةً, (K, TA,) [and رَبَكَ alone,] aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He made ربيكة [q. v.]. (K.) غَرْثَانُ فَا@رْبُكُوا لَهُ [He is hungry, therefore make ye ربيكة for him], (S, K,) or, as IDrd relates it, فِا@بْكُلُوا لَهُ [i. e., “ therefore mix ye بَكَالَة (a certain food) for him ”], (TA,) is a prov.; (S, K;) the origin of which was this: (S:) a certain Arab of the desert, (S, K,) said in the O to be Ibn-Lisán-el-Hommarah, (TA,) came to his family, or wife, (S, K,) from a journey, (TA,) and was congratulated with the annunciation that a boy was born to him: whereupon he said, “ What shall I do with him? Shall I eat him or shall I drink him? ” so his wife said, غَرْثَانُ فَا@رْبُكُوا لَهُ: and when he was satiated, he said, “ How are the infant and his mother? ” (S, K:) the saying means, “ he is hungry, therefore prepare ye for him food, that his hunger may be allayed, and then congratulate him with the annunciation of the birth of the child: ” and IDrd says that it is applied to the case of him whose anxiety has departed and who has become unoccupied so that he may attend to other things. (TA.) ― -b4- And رَبَكَ فُلَانًا, (Lth, K,) inf. n. as above, (Lth, TA,) He threw such a one into mire. (Lth, K.) -A2- رَبِكَ: see 8. 8 ارتبك ذ It was, or became, mixed, or mingled. (S, K.) ― -b2- He (a man) stuck fast in mire. (Lth, K, * TA.) And (tropical:) He (an animal of the chase) struggled in the snare. (K, TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) He (a man, TA) was, or became, in the condition of one whose affair, or case, is confused to him; as also ↓ رَبِكَ , aor. رَبَكَ , (K, TA,) inf. n. رَبَكٌ. (TA.) And ارتبك فِى الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) He (a man) was, or became, entangled in the affair, and could hardly, or not at all, escape from it. (S.) And ارتبك فِى الهَلَكَاتِ (tropical:) He fell into cases of perdition, and could hardly, or not at all, escape from them. (TA from a trad. of 'Alee.) ― -b4- ارتبك فِى كَلَامِهِ (tropical:) He reiterated in his speech, by reason of an impediment, or inability to say what he would; syn. تَتَعْتَعَ. (K, TA.) 11 ارباكّ رَأْيُهُ عَلَيْهِ ذ , (K, * TA,) inf. n. اِرْبِيكَاكٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) His opinion, or judgment, was, or became, confused to him. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) ― -b2- And ارباكّ عَنِ الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) He (a man) paused, or stopped, from the affair. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) رَبِكٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A man (IDrd) weak in art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs: (IDrd, K:) a possessive epithet. (IDrd.) رُبَكٌ ذ and ↓ رِبَكٌّ and ↓ رَبِيكٌ (assumed tropical:) A man in a state of confusion in respect of his affair, or case: (K:) the last is a possessive epithet. (TA.) رِبَكُّ ذ : see what next precedes. رَبُوكُ ذ Dates kneaded with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, after which it is eaten. (Sgh, TA.) [See also رَبِيكَةُ.] رَبِيكٌ ذ : see the next paragraph: ― -b2- and see also رُبَكٌ. رَبِيكَةٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ رَبِيكٌ (K) Dates with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, (S, K,) kneaded together, and then eaten; [like رَبُوكٌ, as explained above;] and, as ISk says, sometimes water is poured upon it, and it is drunk: or, he adds, accord. to Ghaneeyeh Umm-El-Homáris, أَقِط and dates and clarified butter, made soft, not like what is called حَيْس: (S:) or (accord. to Ed-Dubeyreeyeh, S) flour and أَقِط (S, K) ground, and then (S) mixed with clarified butter (S, K) and رُبّ [or inspissated juice]: (S:) or dates and أَقِط (K, TA) kneaded without clarified butter: (TA:) or inspissated juice (رُبّ, K, TA) mixed (TA) with flour or سَوِيق [i. e. meal of parched barley]: (K, TA:) or a cooked compound of dates and wheat. (K.) ― -b2- Also the former word, A portion of fresh butter from which the milk will not separate, (Sgh, K,) so that it is mixed [therewith]. (Sgh.) ― -b3- And Water mixed with mud. (Sgh, K.) ― -b4- [Hence,] رَمَاهُ بِالرَّبِيكَةِ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [He accused him of] a thing that stuck fast upon him. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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