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1 سَبَّهُ ذ , (S, M, K,) [aor. سَبُ3َ ,] inf. n. سَبٌّ, (M,) He cut him, or it. (S, M, K.) ― -b2- And i. q. عَقَرَهُ [i. e. He wounded him; or hocked, houghed, or hamstrung, him; &c.]. (S, * K.) ― -b3- And, (S, M, K,) aor. as above, (S, TA,) and so the inf. n., (M, TA,) (tropical:) He pierced him in the سَبَّةٌ, i. e. the اِسْت. (S, M, K, TA.) [See an ex. in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. سر.] ― -b4- Also سَبَّهُ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. as above, (S, M,) inf. n. سَبٌّ (S, M, Msb, K) and سِبِّيبَى, (K,) [but the latter, accord. to analogy, has an intensive signification,] He reviled him, vilified him, upbraided him, reproached him, defamed him, or gave a bad name to him; (S, M, A, MA, K, Bd in vi. 108, &c.;) from the same verb in the first of the senses expl. in this art.; (M;) as also ↓ سبّبهُ ; (K;) or the latter signifies he reviled him, vilified him, &c., much; syn. أَكْثَرَ سَبَّهُ; (M;) or is more than سَبَّهُ (أَكْثَرُ مِنْ سَبَّهُ). (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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