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شَبَحٌ ذ (S, A, O, Msb, K) and ↓ شَبْحٌ (S, O, K) i. q. شَخْصٌ [i. e. The body, or bodily or corporeal form or figure or substance, of a man or some other thing or object, which one sees from a distance]: (S, A, O, Msb, K:) a man, or some other creature, of which the شَخْص [or body, &c.,] appears to one: (L:) and a thing that is perceived by sense (A, O, L) and by sight: (O, L:) pl. أَشْبَاحٌ, (A, O, Msb, K,) which is of the former, (A, Msb,) and [of the latter] شُبُوحٌ. (K.) One says, لَاحَ لِى شَبَحٌ, meaning شَخْصٌ [i. e. A body, or bodily form, appeared, loomed, or gleamed, to me]. (A.) And هُمْ أَشْبَاحٌ بِلَا أَرْوَاح ٍ [They are bodies without souls]. (A.) And أَذَقُّ مِنْ شَبَح ٍ بَاطِل ٍ, (A, O,) and مِنْ خَيْطِ بَاطِل ٍ, a prov., (O,) meaning [More minute, or inconsiderable, than] the atoms that are seen in the rays of the sun entering from a mural aperture in a chamber: (A, * O:) or, as some say, than the thread that comes forth from the mouth of the spider; [meaning gossamer;] called by the children مُخَاطٌ الشَّيْطَانِ. (O.) And الأَسْمَآءُ ضَرْبَانِ أَسْمَآءُ أَشْبَاح ٍ وَأَسْمَآءُ أَعْمَال ٍ, meaning [Nouns are of two sorts,] the names of things perceived by sense, and the names [of actions, or rather of accidents or attributes, i. e.] of other things; like as they say أَسْمَآءُ الأَعْيَانِ and أَسْمَآءُ المَعَانِى. (A.) And هَلَكَ أَشْبَاحُ مَالِهِ The known ones of his camels, and sheep or goats, and other cattle, perished. (O, K. *) -A2- شَبَحٌ also signifies A door or gate, of high structure; (O, K;) and so ↓ شَبْحٌ : (K:) [but the latter may have originated from a mistranscription; for Sgh says,] and so شَبَجٌ. (O.) -A3- See also شَبَحَةٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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