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شِعَابٌ ذ pl. of شِعْبٌ: (S, O, Msb:) and of شُعْبَةٌ. (K, TA.) ― -b2- شَغَلَتْ شِعَابِى جَدْوَاىَ is a prov., [expl. as] meaning The abundance of the food [that I have to procure for my family] has occupied me so as to divert me from giving to people: (S, TA:) [Z considers شعاب, here, as pl. of شُعْبَةٌ “ a branch, ” and as meaning duties, and relations: (Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 653:)] but El-Mundhiree says that شِعَابِى is a mistranscription: the other reading is سَعَاتِى, meaning “ my expending upon my family. ” (Meyd. [See also سَعَاةٌ, in art. سعو and سعى.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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