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1 شَهِبَ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) aor. شَهَبَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. شَهَبٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, *) It (a thing, S) was, or became, of the colour termed شُهْبَة, (S, Msb, K,) i. e. of a [gray] colour in which whiteness predominated over blackness, (S, Mgh, Msb,) or in which whiteness was interrupted by blackness; (K, * TA;) as also شَهُبَ, aor. شَهُبَ ; and ↓ اشهبّ ; (K;) the last, inf. n. اِشْهِبَابٌ, said in the former sense of a horse; as also ↓ اشهابّ , inf. n. اِشْهِيبَابٌ; (S;) and this last verb, said of the head, its whiteness predominated over its blackness; (TA;) as also ↓ اشتهب . (S, TA.) -A2- شَهَبَهُ, aor. شَهَبَ , (K,) inf. n. شَهْبٌ, (TK,) said of heat and of cold, It altered his colour; as also ↓ شهّبهُ : (K:) or, accord. to A' Obeyd, (TA,) الشَّجَرَ ↓ شهّب , (O, TA,) inf. n. تَشْهِيبٌ, (O,) said of cold, It altered the colour of the trees: and النَّاسَ ↓ شهّب is likewise said of cold [as meaning It altered the colour of the men or people]. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And شَهَبَتِ السَّنَةُ القَوْمَ The year of drought destroyed the cattle (أَمْوَال) of the people or party: (so accord. to the CK and my MS. copy of the K:) or the verb in this sense is ↓ أَشْهَبَت . (So accord. to the text of the K as given in the TA.) ― -b3- [Freytag erroneously assigns to this verb, as from the K, another meaning, belonging to 4.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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