Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ت

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4 اترب أترب اترب ترب تربى : see 1, in three places. -A2- اتربهُ He put dust, or earth, upon it, (S, M, A, K,) namely, a thing; (S, M;) as also ↓ ترّبهُ : (A, K:) or the latter, inf. n. تَتْرِيبٌ, signifies he defiled it, or soiled it, (namely, a thing,) with dust, or earth: (S:) or you say, ↓ تَرَبَهُ , (TA,) or تَرَبَهُ بِالتُّرَابِ, (Msb,) aor. تَرِبَ , (Msb, TA,) inf. n. تَرْبٌ, (TA,) [meaning he sprinkled it with dust,] namely, a writing [for the purpose of drying up the ink], (Msb,) or a paper; (TA;) and ↓ ترّبهُ , (T, Msb, TA,) with teshdeed, (Msb,) [meaning he sprinkled much dust upon it; or sprinkled it much with dust;] namely, a writing; (T, Msb, TA;) the latter having an intensive signification: (Msb:) or ↓ the former of the last two verbs is used in speaking of anything that is improved, or put into a right or proper state [by means of dust or earth]; and ↓ the latter of them, in speaking of anything that is injured or marred or spoiled [thereby]: you say, الإِِهَابَ ↓ تَرَبَتِ [She sprinkled, or put, dust, or earth, upon the hide], to prepare it properly for use; and so of a skin for water or milk. (TA.) It is said in a trad., [accord. to one reading,] اتْرِبُوا الكِتَابَ [Sprinkle ye the writing with dust]. (S. [So in three copies of that work: probably أَتْرِبُوا; but perhaps ↓ اِتْرِبُوا : the reading commonly known is ↓ تَرِّبُوا .]) -A3- اترب also signifies He possessed a slave who had been possessed three times. (T, K.)