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1 أَبَّ ذ , (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. اَبِ3َ , (M, K,) agreeably with analogy in the case of an intrans. verb of this class, (TA,) and اَبُ3َ , (AZ, T, S, M, K,) contr. to analogy, (TA,) inf. n. أَبٌّ (T, S, M, K) and أَبِيبٌ (M, K) and أَبَابٌ and أَبَابَةٌ (S, M, K) and إِِبَابَةٌ; (M;) and ↓ ا@ئْتَبَّ [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَبَّ]; (T, K;) He prepared himself, (AZ, S, M, A, K,) and equipped himself, (AZ, S, A,) for (لِ) departing, or going away, (AZ, S,) or for journeying: (M, A, K:) or he determined upon journeying, and prepared himself. (T.) El-Aashà says, “ صَرَمْتُ وَلَمْ أَصْرِمْكُمُ وَكَصَارِمٍ
أَخٌ قَدْ طَوَى كَشْحًا وَأَبَّ لِيَذْهَبَا
” (T, S, M, TA,) i. e. I cut [in effect, while I did not really cut] you: for like one who cuts is a brother who has determined and prepared to go away. (TA.) [Hence,] لَا عَبَابَ وَ لَا أَبَابَ, [or لا عَبَابِ ولا أَبَابِ,] a prov. [which see explained in art. عب]. (TA.) [And hence the saying,] هُوَ فِى أَبَابِهِ, (S, M, K,) and أَبَابَتِهِ, and إِِبَابَتِهِ, (M,) He is in his [state of, or he is engaged in his,] preparation or equipment [for departing or journeying]. (S, M, K.) The hemzeh in أَبَّ is sometimes changed into و; and thus وَبَّ, inf. n. وَبٌّ, signifies He prepared himself to assault, or charge, in battle. (T, TA.) ― -b2- أَبَّتْ أَبَابَتُهُ, and إِِبَابَتُهُ, His way, or course, of acting, or conduct, or the like, was, or became, rightly directed, or ordered. (M, K.) ― -b3- ↓ أَبَّ أَبَّهُ i. q. قَصَدَ قَصْدَهُ, (K,) which signifies He tended, repaired, betook himself, or directed his course, towards him, or it: (S and Msb in art. قصد:) and also, he pursued his (another‘s) course, doing as he (the latter) did. (L in art. وكد.) ― -b4- أَبَّدِ إِِلَى وَطَنِهِ, (M, K,) aor. اَبِ3َ (IDrd, M, K) and اَبُ3َ , (K,) inf. n. أَبٌّ (AA, S, M, K) and إِِبَابَةٌ and أَبَابَةٌ (M, K,) and أَبَابٌ, (TA,) He yearned for, longed for, or longed to see, his home. (AA, S, M, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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