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1 جَبَأَ ذ and جَبِئَ , aor. جَبَاَ , He restrained, or withheld, himself; refrained, forbore, or abstained; or turned back, or reverted. (K, TA.) You say, جَبَأَ عَنْهُ, and جَبِئَ, meaning He restrained, or withheld, himself, &c., from him, or it; and regarded him, or it, with reverence, veneration, dread, awe, or fear: (TA:) [or,] accord. to AZ, جَبَأْتُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ, inf. n. جَبْءٌ and جُبُوْءٌ, [to which Golius adds جُبُؤٌ and جِبَآءٌ, but, I suspect, from incorrect MSS.,] means I drew, or held, or hung, back from the man; or remained behind him; or shrank from him; or shrank from him and hid myself: and he cites (from Nuseyb Ibn-Mihjen, TA) “ فَهَلْ أَنَ إِِلَّ مِثْلُ سَيِّقَةِ العِدَى
إِِنِ ا@سْتَقْدَمَتْ نَحْرٌ وَإِِنْ جَبَأَتْ عَقْرٌ
” [And am I otherwise than like the beasts driven away by the enemy? If they go before, slaughter befalls them; and if they remain behind, hocking]. (S, TA.) You say also, مَا جَبَأَ عَنْ شَتْمِى He did not draw back from reviling me; did not desist, or abstain, therefrom. (TA.) ― -b2- It (a sword) recoiled, or reverted, without penetrating, or without effect: (K:) or so the former verb [only]. (TA.) ― -b3- It (the sight, or the eye,) recoiled, or reverted: (K:) or so the former verb [only]; and disliked, or disapproved, or hated, the thing [that was before it]. (TA.) You say, جَبَأَتْ عَيْنِى عَنِ الشَّىْءِ My eye recoiled, or reverted, from the thing. (S.) And of a woman of displeasing aspect you say, إِِنَّ العَيْنِ لَتَجْبَأُ عَنْهَا [Verily the eye recoils from her with dislike]. (As, TA.) ― -b4- He disliked, disapproved, or hated: (K:) or so the former verb [only]. (TA.) You say, جَبَأَ الشَّىْءَ He disliked, &c., the thing. (TA.) ― -b5- He inclined his neck: (K:) or so the former verb [only]. (TA.) ― -b6- He hid himself; (K, TA;) [app. from fear;] as, for instance, a ضَبّ [q. v.] in its hole. (TA.) ― -b7- He, or it, came, or went, forth, or out: (K:) [or so the former verb only.] You say of a serpent, جَبَأَ عَلَيْهِ It came forth upon him from its hole (S, TA) so as to frighten him; and in like manner one says of a hyena, and a ضَبّ, and a jerboa. (TA.) And جَبَأَ عَلَى القَوْمِ He came forth unexpectedly upon the people, or company of men. (TA.) And جَبَأَ الجَرَادُ The locusts invaded, or came suddenly upon, the country. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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