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4 ابهى أبه أبهى أبهي أبهيي ابهى ابهي بهي آبه آبهي آبهيي He (a man) was, or became, beautiful, or handsome, in face. (K.) -A2- ابهاهُ [He deprived it of beauty, or goodliness; the ا being a privative, as it often is, like the Greek a: this is probably the primary signification: (see Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 604:) and hence, ― -b2- ] He made it empty, or vacant: (K:) or he rent it, or made holes in it: (JK:) or he rent it, or made holes in it, and rendered it vacant: (S:) namely, a tent. (JK, S, K.) Hence the saying, المِعْزَى تُبْهِى وَ لَا تُبْنِى [explained in art. بنى]: (JK, S:) applied to him who injures and does not profit. (JK.) ― -b3- He emptied it; namely, a vessel. (A'Obeyd, JK, S, K.) ― -b4- ابهى الخَيْلَ He freed the horses from service (JK, S, K) in warfare; (S, K;) i. e. he did not go to war upon the horses: (TA:) or he divested the horses of their furniture, and did not ride them: or he supplied the horses amply with fodder, and gave them rest: but the first is the-approved explanation. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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