This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
4 أَشْبَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ ذ , (S,) or اشبى الشَّجَرُ, (K,) inf. n. إِِشْبَآءٌ, (TA,) The tree, (S,) or the trees, (K,) became tall, (S, K, TA,) and tangled and dense, by reason of luxuriance (K, TA) and sappiness. (TA.) ― -b2- اشبى said of a man, He begat a boy [sharp] like the point of iron (كَشَبَا الحَدِيدِ): (Yz, TA:) or he had a son born to him sharp in intellect: (S, K, TA:) or he begat generous, or noble, children, by whom he had sharp means of attack and defence, like the points of spear-heads. (Ham p. 384.) -A2- أَشْبَيْتُ الرَّجُلَ i. q. وَجَدْتُ لَهُ ↓ شَبَاةً [app. meaning I found the man to have sharpness]. (Ham p. 385.) ― -b2- And اشباهُ He exalted him, syn. رَفَعَهُ, (S,) and honoured him; namely, a man. (S, K.) ― -b3- And He cast him into a well, or into an evil, or a hateful, plight: thus having two contr. meanings. (K.) -A3- اشبى is also syn. with دَفَعَ [He impelled, pushed, thrust, &c.]. (K. [But perhaps this is a mistake for رَفَعَ, a syn. of اشبى mentioned before: if not, it may be from شَبَاةً signifying the “ point ” of anything.]) -A4- And i. q. أَعْطَى [He gave]. (K. [In this sense, accord. to the TK, trans. without a prep.; which I think doubtful.]) ― -b2- And i. q. أَشْبَلَ, (K,) meaning أَشْفَقَ [i. e. He was, or became, favourably inclined; &c.]. (TA. [In this sense, also, both اشبى and اشبل, accord. to the TK, are trans. without a prep.; but this I think a mistake with respect to both of these verbs, the latter of which is well known to be trans. only by means of عَلَى.]) -A5- [And i. q. أَشْبَهَ.] One says, اشبى فُلَانًا وَلَدُهُ, (S,) or اشبى زَيْدًا أَوْلَادُهُ, (K,) His children resembled such a one, or, Zeyd; syn. أَشْبَهُوهُ. (S, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
