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تَرِبٌ أراب أربى راب رب ربا ربى ترب تربة , applied to a place, (M, TA,) and to soil, (TA,) Abounding with dust; dusty: (T, M, TA:) and to food, (T,) or flesh-meat, (A,) defiled, or soiled, (T, A,) in the dust, (T,) or with dust. (A.) You say also ↓ أَرْضٌ تَرْبَآءُ meaning Land in which are dust and moist earth. (M.) And رِيحٌ تَرِبَةٌ, (T, S, M,) and تَرِبٌ, (T,) A wind that carries with it dust: (T:) or that brings dust: (S:) or that drives along the dust: [or having dust: for] thus used it is a possessive epithet. (M.) ― -b2- Also Cleaving to the dust by reason of want; having nothing between him and the earth: (IAar, T:) [cleaving to the dust by reason of poverty; see 1:] poor, as though cleaving to the dust: (Msb:) and [simply,] poor: (IAar, T, TA:) or needy, or in want. (M.) [See also مُتْرِبٌ.]

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