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شَيْبٌ ذ The hair (K, TA) itself: sometimes it is thus called: (TA:) [but app. only when white, or hoary; in which sense it is often used; as in the TA in arts. خضب and صبغ &c.:] or (K, TA, in the CK “ and ”) whiteness of the hair, or hoariness; (A, K, TA;) as also ↓ مَشِيبٌ : (K, TA:) both signify the same [and are thus used as simple substs. and are also inf. ns.]: (S:) or the former has the latter of the two significations given above; (As, S, Mgh, Msb;) and is little and much [whiteness of the hair]: one says, عَلَاهُ الشَّيْبُ [Whiteness of the hair, or hoariness, came upon him]: (TA:) but ↓ مَشِيبٌ signifies a man's entering upon the period of whiteness of the hair, or hoariness: (As, S, Msb:) see an ex. of this latter in the first paragraph. In the phrase in the Kur [xix. 3], وَا@شْتَعَلَ الرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا, (S,) meaning And whiteness of the hair of the head hath spread therein like as the radiance of fire spreads in firewood, (Jel,) [or the head has become glistening with whiteness of the hair, or hoariness,] شيبا is in the accus. case as a specificative: or, accord. to Akh, as an inf. n., as though it were said وَشَابَ الرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا. (S, TA. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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