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إِِرْبٌ أراب أرب أربى إِرب ارب راب رب ربا ربى آرب Cunning, intelligence with craft and forecast, or simply intelligence, excellence of judgment, sagacity, (T, S, M, L, K,) and knowledge in affairs; (M, L;) as also ↓ إِِرْبَةٌ and ↓ أُرْبَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ أَرَبٌ , (M, A,) or ↓ أَرْبٌ . (L.) You say, هُوَ ذُو إِِرْبٍ [He is a possessor of cunning, or intelligence, &c.]. (S.) ― -b2- Intelligence and religion. (Th, M, K.) ― -b3- Deceit, gv?? artifice, or fraud; syn. مَكْرٌ: so in the L and other lexicons: in the K, نُكْرٌ [i. e. “cunning,” &c., as above]: (TA:) and so ↓ إِِرْبَةٌ ; syn. حِيلَةٌ. (K.) ― -b4- Wickedness, mischievousness, or malignity; hidden rancour, malevolence, or malice. (K, TA.) [In a trad. it occurs in this sense written, in the TA, ↓ أَرْب .] -A2- See also أَرَبٌ, in four places. -A3- Also A member; a distinct and complete part of an animal body; a limb; (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) or such as is made complete, or entire, not wanting anything: (M:) pl. آرَابٌ (S, M, Mgh, Msb) and أَرْآبٌ; (S, Mgh;) the latter formed by transposition. (Mgh.) You say, قَطَّعْتُهُ إِِرْبًا إِِرْبًا I cut him up, member by member, or limb by limb. (TA.) And السُّجُودُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ آرَابٍ or أَرْآبٍ Prostration [in prayer] is [performed] on seven members; (S, Mgh;) namely, the. forehead, the hands, the knees, and the feet. (TA.) ― -b2- Also The membrum genitale; the pudendum; syn. فَرْجٌ: (M, K:) but some say that this signification is not known: [see أَرَبٌ:] in some copies of the K, the explanation is written فَرَحٌ, with the unpointed ح. (TA.) ― -b3- آرَابٌ [the pl.] also signifies Pieces of flesh, or of flesh-meat. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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