نب

أ1 نَبَأَ. (K,) inf. n. نَبْءٌ, (TA,) He uttered a low voice, or sound: or he (a dog) cried, or barked. (K.) [See نَبَحَ.]

A2: نَبَأَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَبْءٌ and نُبُوْءٌ, He was exalted, or elevated.

A3: نَبَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ, (K,) inf. n. نَبْءٌ and نُبُوْءٌ, (S,) He assaulted them; came forth upon them: (K:) like نَبَعَ and نَبَهَ: he came upon them. (Az, S.) [See also نَابِئٌ.]

b2: نَبَأَ He went forth from a land to another land. (S, K.) [See نَابِئٌ.] b3: نَبَأَتْ بِهِ الأَرْضُ i. q. جَآءَتْ به, The land brought, or led him: (S, L:) [accord. to Golius, The land brought, or produced, it: but it is a phrase well known to the learned among the Arabs in the present day, as similar to نَادَاهُ تُرَابُهُ “ his dust, or earth, (i. e. the place of his burial,) called him: ” and the explanation which I have given is confirmed by the citation, in the S, of the following verse, of Hanash Ibn-Málik, immediately after نبأت به in the sense of جاءت به:] فَنَفْسَكَ أَحْرِزْ فَإِنَّ الحُتُو فَ يَنْبَأْنَ بِالمَرْءِ فِى كُلِّ وَادْ [Then take good care of thyself; for deaths (of various kinds) bring (or lead) a man into every valley (or place): i. e., fate brings him to the place where he is destined to be buried, whereever it be]. (S.) b4: نَبَأَ, aor. ـَ see 4.2 نبّأ: see 4.3 نابأهُ He acquainted or informed him, and the latter did the same. (K.) b2: Also, simply, He acquainted or informed him. (TA.) b3: نَابَأَهُمْ He quitted their neighbourhood; withdrew to a distance from them. (K.) [See also art. نبو.]4 انبأهُ إِيَّاهُ, and بِهِ, (and عَنْهُ, S, K, art. كود;) and ↓ نبّأهُ (S, * K) and ↓ نَبَأَهُ, (S, * TA,) each followed by ايّاه or به; (TA;) He informed him, or told him, of it: (K:) or these verbs, followed by ايّاه, signify he made him to know it; and followed by به, he informed him, or told him, of it. (TA.) b2: Es-Semeen says, that انبأ and نبّأ and اخبر and خبّر, when they convey the meaning of knowledge, are triply transitive, or may govern three objective complements, the greatest number that any verb can govern: (TA:) [ex. أَنْبَأْتُ زَيْدًا عَمْرًا قَائِمًا I acquainted Zeyd that 'Amr was standing]. b3: It is also said, that ↓ نبّأ

has a more intensive signification than انبأ: ex.

مَنْ أَنْبَأَكَ هٰذَا قَالَ نَبَّأَنِى العَلِيمُ الخَبِيرُ [Who hath acquainted thee with this? He said, The Knowing, the Intelligent (God), hath apprized me: Kur, lxvi. 3]. (TA.) b4: Sb has mentioned أَنَا

أَنَبُؤُكَ [for انا أَنْبَؤُكَ] as used for the sake of conformity in sound with a preceding word. (M, TA.) [See art. جوأ.]

A2: رَمَى فَأَنْبَأَ He cast, or shot, but did not split, or cleave, or make a slight cut, or scratch: (S, K:) or, did not penetrate. (K.) 5 تنبّأ, (S, K,) said to have been pronounced with ء universally; (Sb, S;) but in the L, تنبّى; (TA;) He arrogated to himself the gift of prophecy, or office of a prophet. (L, K.) 10 استنبأ النَّبَأَ He sought, or searched after, information, or news. (K.) b2: وَيَسْتَنْبِئُونَكَ أَحَقٌّ هُوَ (in the Kur, x. 54) means And they will ask thee to inform them, [saying,] Is it true? (Bd.) نَبَأٌ Information; a piece of information; intelligence; an announcement; news; tidings; a piece of news; an account; a narrative, or narration; a story: or what is related from another or others: syn. خَبَرٌ: (S, Msb, K:) it is generally held to be syn. with خَبَرٌ; but accord. to Er-Rághib, signifies an announcement of great utility, from which results either knowledge or a predominance of opinion, and true: (TA:) pl. أَنْبَآءُ. (K.) b2: النَّبَأُ العَظِيمُ [Kur, lxxviii. 2,] accord. to some, The Kur-án: others say, the resurrection: and others, the case of the Prophet. (TA.) b3: الأَنْبَآءُ, in the Kur, xxviii. 66, (فَعَمِيَتْ عَلَيْهِمُ الأَنْبَآءُ) signifies The allegations, pleas, or excuses. (TA.) نَبْأَةٌ An eminence, or protuberance, in the earth, or ground. (TA.) b2: نَبْأَةٌ A low voice, or sound: (S, K:) or the cry, or barking, of dogs. (K.) نَبِىْءٌ, (S, K,) pronounced with ء in the dial. of the people of Mekkeh, (S,) whose pronunciation of it is disapproved by Sb on account of its uncommonness; (TA;) by others, نَبِىٌّ, without ء; (S, K, TA;) A prophet: (TA:) of the measure فَعِيلٌ used in the sense of the measure مُفْعل [i. e.

مُفْعِلٌ or مَفْعَلٌ] (IB) or فَاعِلٌ (S, Es-Sunoosee) or مَفْعُولٌ; (Es-Sunoosee) i. e., who acquaints or informs mankind, (S, K, TA,) or who is acquainted or informed, respecting God and things unseen: or accord. to some, it is derived from نَبْوَةٌ and نَبَاوَةٌ signifying “ elevation; ” (see art. نبو;) in which case it is originally without ء: or, accord. to others, from نَبِىْءٌ in a sense given below; that of “ a conspicuous way. ” (TA.) It is a less special word than رَسُولٌ [when thereby is meant an apostle of God]; for every رسول is a نبىّ, but not every نبىّ is a رسول. (TA.) Pl.

أَنْبِيَآءُ (S, K, without ء, because the ء is changed into ى in the sing., S,) and نُبَأءُ (S, K, like كُرَمَآءُ [pl. of كَرِيمٌ] TA,) and أَنْبَآءٌ [K, these two preserving the original radical ء] and نَبِيُّونَ, (K,) without ء: (TA:) but some pronounced the first and last of these pls., in the Kur-án, with ء; though the more approved pronunciation is without ء. (TA.) The dim. is نُبَيّئٌ, (S, K,) with those who make the pl. نُبَأءٌ [or أَنْبَآءٌ]; but with those who make the pl. أَنْبِيَآء, it is نُبَىٌّ. (K.) b2: An Arab of the desert said to Mohammad, يَا نَبِىْءَ اللّٰهِ, and the latter disapproved of his pronouncing نبىء in this case with ء, because, as it signifies An emigrant, he meant thereby to call him an emigrant from Mekkeh to El-Medeeneh. (S, K, TA.) b3: نَبِىْءٌ A conspicuous, an evident, or a clear, way. (K.) Hence, accord. to some, the apostle [or rather prophet] is so called, because he is the conspicuous, evident, way, that conducts to God. (MF.) b4: نَبِىْءٌ and ↓ نَابِئٌ An elevated, or a protuberant, or gibbous, place. (K.) b5: Hence it is said in a trad., لَا تُصَلُّوا عَلَى النَّبِىْءِ [Pray not upon the place that is elevated, or protuberant]. (K.) نُبُوْءَةٌ, (K, in the CK نُبُوَّة) in which the ء is sometimes softened in pronunciation, and sometimes [or rather generally] changed into و which is incorporated into the preceding و so that the word is written and pronounced نُبُوَّةٌ, (TA,) Prophecy; the gift of prophecy; the office, or function, of a prophet. (MA, K.) Dim. نُبَيِّئَةٌ. (S, K.) نَابِئٌ act. part. n. of نَبَأَ. b2: A bull [app. a ثَوْرٌ وَحْشِىٌّ] that goes forth from one land or country to another. (TA.) b3: A torrent that comes forth from another land or tract. (S.) b4: A man coming forth unexpectedly from an unknown quarter. (S, A.) b5: [See also نَبِىْءٌ.]

هَلْ عِنْدَكُمْ نَابِئَةُ خَبَرٍ, i. q. جَائِبَةُ خَبَرٍ, [Have ye any current news? or — news from a distant place? &c.: see جائبة]. (A.)

نبأ
[النَّبَأُ] : خبر ذو فائدة عظيمة يحصل به علم أو غَلَبَة ظنّ، ولا يقال للخبر في الأصل نَبَأٌ حتى يتضمّن هذه الأشياء الثّلاثة، وحقّ الخبر الذي يقال فيه نَبَأٌ أن يتعرّى عن الكذب، كالتّواتر، وخبر الله تعالى، وخبر النبيّ عليه الصلاة والسلام، ولتضمُّن النَّبَإِ معنى الخبر يقال: أَنْبَأْتُهُ بكذا كقولك: أخبرته بكذا، ولتضمّنه معنى العلم قيل: أَنْبَأْتُهُ كذا، كقولك: أعلمته كذا . قال الله تعالى: قُلْ هُوَ نَبَأٌ عَظِيمٌ أَنْتُمْ عَنْهُ مُعْرِضُونَ
[ص/ 67 68] ، وقال: عَمَّ يَتَساءَلُونَ عَنِ النَّبَإِ الْعَظِيمِ
[النبأ/ 1- 2] ، أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَبَأُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ قَبْلُ فَذاقُوا وَبالَ أَمْرِهِمْ [التغابن/ 5] ، وقال: تِلْكَ مِنْ أَنْباءِ الْغَيْبِ نُوحِيها إِلَيْكَ
[هود/ 49] ، وقال:
تِلْكَ الْقُرى نَقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ أَنْبائِها
[الأعراف/ 101] ، وقال: ذلِكَ مِنْ أَنْباءِ الْقُرى نَقُصُّهُ عَلَيْكَ [هود/ 100] ، وقوله:
إِنْ جاءَكُمْ فاسِقٌ بِنَبَإٍ فَتَبَيَّنُوا
[الحجرات/ 6] فتنبيه أنه إذا كان الخبر شيئا عظيما له قدر فحقّه أن يتوقّف فيه، وإن علم وغلب صحّته على الظّنّ حتى يعاد النّظر فيه، ويتبين فضل تبيّن، يقال:
نَبَّأْتُهُ وأَنْبَأْتُهُ. قال تعالى: أَنْبِئُونِي بِأَسْماءِ هؤُلاءِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صادِقِينَ
[البقرة/ 31] ، وقال:
أَنْبِئْهُمْ بِأَسْمائِهِمْ فَلَمَّا أَنْبَأَهُمْ بِأَسْمائِهِمْ
[البقرة/ 33] ، وقال: نَبَّأْتُكُما بِتَأْوِيلِهِ
[يوسف/ 37] ، وَنَبِّئْهُمْ عَنْ ضَيْفِ إِبْراهِيمَ
[الحجر/ 51] ، وقال: أَتُنَبِّئُونَ اللَّهَ بِما لا يَعْلَمُ فِي السَّماواتِ وَلا فِي الْأَرْضِ
[يونس/ 18] ، قُلْ سَمُّوهُمْ أَمْ تُنَبِّئُونَهُ بِما لا يَعْلَمُ [الرعد/ 33] ، وقال: نَبِّئُونِي بِعِلْمٍ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صادِقِينَ
[الأنعام/ 143] ، قَدْ نَبَّأَنَا اللَّهُ مِنْ أَخْبارِكُمْ [التوبة/ 94] . ونَبَّأْتُهُ أبلغ من أَنْبَأْتُهُ، فَلَنُنَبِّئَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
[فصلت/ 50] ، يُنَبَّؤُا الْإِنْسانُ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِما قَدَّمَ وَأَخَّرَ
[القيامة/ 13] ويدلّ على ذلك قوله: فَلَمَّا نَبَّأَها بِهِ قالَتْ مَنْ أَنْبَأَكَ هذا قالَ نَبَّأَنِيَ الْعَلِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ
[التحريم/ 3] ولم يقل: أَنْبَأَنِي، بل عَدَلَ إلى «نَبَّأَ» الّذي هو أبلغُ تنبيهاً على تحقيقه وكونه من قِبَلِ الله. وكذا قوله: قَدْ نَبَّأَنَا اللَّهُ مِنْ أَخْبارِكُمْ
[التوبة/ 94] ، فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِما كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
[المائدة/ 105] والنُّبُوَّةُ: سِفَارَةٌ بين الله وبين ذوي العقول من عباده لإزاحة عللهم في أمر مَعادِهم ومَعاشِهم. والنَّبِيُّ لكونه منبِّئا بما تسكن إليه العقول الذَّكيَّة، وهو يصحُّ أن يكون فعيلا بمعنى فاعل لقوله تعالى: نَبِّئْ عِبادِي
[الحجر/ 49] ، قُلْ أَأُنَبِّئُكُمْ
[آل عمران/ 15] ، وأن يكون بمعنى المفعول لقوله: نَبَّأَنِيَ الْعَلِيمُ الْخَبِيرُ [التحريم/ 3] . وتَنَبَّأَ فلان: ادَّعى النُّبوَّة، وكان من حقّ لفظه في وضع اللّغة أن يصحّ استعماله في النبيِّ إذ هو مُطاوِعُ نَبَّأَ، كقوله: زَيَّنَهُ فَتَزَيَّنَ، وحَلَّاهُ فَتَحَلَّى، وجَمَّلَهُ فَتَجَمَّلَ، لكن لمَّا تُعُورِفَ فيمن يدَّعِي النُّبوَّةَ كَذِبا جُنِّبَ استعمالُه في المُحقِّ، ولم يُستعمَل إلّا في المُتقوِّل في دَعْواه. كقولك: تَنَبَّأَ مُسَيْلِمَةُ، ويقال في تصغير نَبيء: مُسَيْلِمَة نُبَيِّئُ سَوْءٍ، تنبيهاً أنَّ أخباره ليست من أخبار الله تعالى، كما قال رجل سمع كلامه: والله ما خرج هذا الكلام من إلٍّ أي: اللهِ. والنَّبْأَة الصَّوْتُ الخَفِيُّ.

سب

1 سَبَّهُ, (S, M, K,) [aor. ـُ inf. n. سَبٌّ, (M,) He cut him, or it. (S, M, K.) b2: And i. q. عَقَرَهُ [i. e. He wounded him; or hocked, houghed, or hamstrung, him; &c.]. (S, * K.) b3: And, (S, M, K,) aor. as above, (S, TA,) and so the inf. n., (M, TA,) (tropical:) He pierced him in the سَبَّةٌ, i. e. the اِسْت. (S, M, K, TA.) [See an ex. in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. سر.] b4: Also سَبَّهُ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. as above, (S, M,) inf. n. سَبٌّ (S, M, Msb, K) and سِبِّيبَى, (K,) [but the latter, accord. to analogy, has an intensive signification,] He reviled him, vilified him, upbraided him, reproached him, defamed him, or gave a bad name to him; (S, M, A, MA, K, Bd in vi. 108, &c.;) from the same verb in the first of the senses expl. in this art.; (M;) as also ↓ سبّبهُ; (K;) or the latter signifies he reviled him, vilified him, &c., much; syn. أَكْثَرَ سَبَّهُ; (M;) or is more than سَبَّهُ (أَكْثَرُ مِنْ سَبَّهُ). (TA.) 2 سَبَّّ see what next precedes.

A2: سبّب لِلْأَمْرِ, (MA,) inf. n. تَسْبِيبٌ, (KL, PS,) (assumed tropical:) He made, or appointed, or prepared, a means, or cause, (MA, KL, PS,) of attaining, or accomplishing, the thing, or affair. (MA.) [And سبّب, alone, (assumed tropical:) He, or it, caused or, occasioned.] You say, سَبَّبَ اللّٰهُ لَكَ سَبَبَ خَيْرٍ (tropical:) [May God make, or appoint, or prepare, for thee a means of attaining good, or prosperity]. (A, TA.) And سبّب لِلْمَآءِ مَجْرًى (tropical:) He made, or prepared, a channel for the water. (A, TA.) 3 سابّهُ, inf. n. سِبَابٌ (S, * M, A, Msb, K *) and مُسَابَّةٌ, (M, Msb, KL, TA,) He reviled him, vilified him, upbraided him, reproached him, defamed him, or gave a bad name to him, (M, A, KL, TA,) being reviled, &c., by him. (M, A, TA.) You say, بَيْنَهُمَا سِبَابٌ Between them two is mutual reviling, &c. (A.) And المِزَاحُ سِبَابُ النَّوْكَى [Jesting is the mutual reviling, &c., of those that are foolish, or stupid]. (A, TA.) and it is said in a trad., سبَابُ المُسْلِمِ فُسُوقٌ (TA) The mutual reviling of the Muslim is a departure from obedience to God. (El-Munáwee in his Expos. of the Jámi' es-Sagheer of Es-Suyootee.) 5 تسبّب [as quasi-pass. of 2, (assumed tropical:) It was, or became, made, or appointed, or prepared, as a means, or cause, of attaining, or accomplishing a thing, or an affair; followed by لِأَمْرٍ. And It was, or became, caused, or occasioned]. You say, تسبّب مَالُ الفَىْءِ (assumed tropical:) [The property of the spoil, or acquisition, or tribute, termed فَىْء was caused, or occasioned, to accrue]: for that whereby the property is caused, or occasioned, [to be obtained, as the abandonment of their abodes by unbelievers, or their making peace with Muslim invaders on the condition of paying a poll-tax or the like,] is made a means, or cause, of the accruing of the property to those to whom it is due of the recipients of the فَىْء (Az, TA.) [See also 10.] b2: تسبّب بِهِ إِلَى شَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) He made use of it as a means, or cause, of attaining, or accomplishing, a thing. (M.) And أَتَسَبَّبُ بِفُلَانٍ إِلَيْكَ (assumed tropical:) [I make use of such a one as a means of access to thee]. (TA in art. ذرع.) b3: [Hence, in the present day, تسبّب is used as meaning (assumed tropical:) He trafficked; because trafficking is a using means to procure subsistence.]6 تَسَابَّا, (K,) [or تسابّوا,] inf. n. تَسَابٌّ, (S,) They two cut each other, (S, * K,) [or they (i. e. more than two persons) cut one another.] b2: [Hence, (see 1, last sentence,)] تسابّوا, (S, M, A, MA, K,) inf. n. as above; (S;) and ↓ استبّوا; (A, MA;) They reviled, vilified, upbraided, reproached, defamed, or gave bad names to, one another. (S, M, A, MA.) And بَيْنَهُمْ أُسْبُوبَةٌ يَتَسَابُّونَ بِهَا (S, M, A, * TA) Between them is a thing [meaning reviling or vilifying speech] with which they revile, or vilify, &c., one another. (M, TA.) 8 إِسْتَبَ3َ see the next preceding paragraph.10 استسبّ لِأَبَوَيْهِ [He invited, or attracted, reviling, or vilifying, to his two parents]. (A.) It is said in a trad. of Aboo-Hureyreh, لَا تَمْشِيَنَّ

أَمَامَ أَبِيكَ وَلَا تَجْلِسْ قَبْلَهُ وَلَا تَدَعْهُ بِاسْمِهِ وَلَا تَسْتَسِبَّ لَهُ, i. e. [By no means walk thou before thy father, nor sit down before him, nor call him by his name,] nor expose him to reviling, or attract reviling to him, by reviling another's father, for in that case he may revile thy father in requital to thee. (TA.) A2: اِسْتَسْبَبَ لَهُ الأَمْرُ (tropical:) (A, TA) [The thing, or affair, or event, became caused, or prepared, for him: thus expl. by IbrD: see also 5]. R. Q. 1 سَبْسَبَ (assumed tropical:) He severed his tie, or ties, of relationship, by unkind behaviour to his kindred. (AA.) A2: He went a gentle pace. (AA. [Freytag, on the authority of “ Hamak. Waked.,” assigns this meaning to ↓ تَسَبْسَبَ.]) A3: He smelt a foul smell. (AA.) A4: He discharged his urine. (M, K.) He made water to flow. (K.) R. Q. 2 تَسَبْسَبَ It (water) ran, or flowed. (K.) b2: See also R. Q. 1.

سِبٌّ One who reviles, vilifies, upbraids, reproaches, or defames, much, being reviled, &c.; (A'Obeyd, S, M, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ مِسَبٌّ. (S, K.) And [simply] One's mutual reviler or vilifier &c.; (A'Obeyd, S, M, K;) as also ↓ سَبِيبٌ (M, K.) A poet, (S,) namely, 'Abd-Er-Rahmán Ibn-Hassán, satirizing Miskeen Ed-Dárimee, (TA,) says, لَا تَسُبَّنَّنِى فَلَسْتَ بِسِبِّى

إِنَّ سِبِّى مِنَ الرِّجَالِ الكَرِيمُ [Thou shalt by no means revile me; for thou art not my mutual reviler: verily he, of men, who is my mutual reviler is the generous]. (S, TA.) [See also مُسْتَبٌّ: and سَبَّابٌ.]

A2: A veil, or the like; syn. سِتْرٌ. (M.) b2: A woman's muffler, or head-covering; syn. خِمَارٌ. (S, M, Msb, K.) b3: A turban. (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K.) El-Mukhabbal Es-Saadee says, (S, M, Mgh,) using it in this sense, (M, Mgh,) وَأَشْهَدُ مِنْ عَوْفٍ حُلُولًا كَثِيرَةً

يَحُجُّونَ سِبَّ الزِّبْرِقَانِ المُزَعْفَرَا [And I witness many persons of 'Owf, alighting during their journeys, going repeatedly to and fro to see Ez-Zibrikán's turban dyed with saffron]: (S, M, Mgh:) for it was a custom of the chiefs of the Arabs to dye their turbans with saffron: or, as some say, the meaning is his اِسْت; [but this is correctly, or more commonly, termed سَبَّة;] and Ktr asserts that he was suspected: (M:) he says that Ez-Zibrikán used to tinge his است yellow; but this is a strange saying. (TA in art. زبرق.) b4: Also, and ↓ سَبِيبَةٌ, An oblong piece (S, M, K) of cloth, (M,) or of thin cloth, (K,) or of thin linen cloth, (S,) or of white cloth: (M:) or a thin garment: (Aboo-'Omar, TA:) or so the latter word: (M:) or this signifies a linen stuff that is brought from the region of the Nile, of a kind commonly known among the merchants by [the name of] كرخ, some of which are made in Misr, and their length is eight by six [cubits: cubits being meant because the ns. of number here are fem., and ذِرَاع is fem.]: (Sh, TA:) or this same word signifies an oblong piece of cloth of any kind, or, as some say, of linen: (TA:) the pl. of the former is سُبُوبٌ; (S, K, TA;) and of the latter, سَبَائِبٌ: (S, M, K, TA:) in a verse of 'Alkameh Ibn-'Abadeh, the phrase بِسَبَا الكَتَّانِ is used for بِسَبَائِبِ الكتّان. (M.) b5: See also سَبَبَ, first signification.

سَبَّةٌ i. q. اِسْتٌ (tropical:) [The podex, or the anus]: (S, M, A, K:) because it is discommended. (A.) [See also سِبٌّ.]

A2: مَضَتْ سَبَّةٌ مِنَ الدَّهْرِ (tropical:) A space, or long space, of time passed; (S, M, A;) [thus termed] because time is always complained of; (A;) and so سَنْبَةٌ, in which the ن is [said to be] a substitute for the [former] ب of سَبَّةٌ, in like manner as it is substituted in the case of إِجَّاصٌ and إِنْجَاصٌ; because [it is asserted, though this is contradicted, that] there is no word of which the radical letters are سنب. (M.) And مَا رَأَيْتُهُ مُنْذُ سَبَّةٍ (assumed tropical:) I have not seen him for, or during, a space, or long space, of time; (S, K; *) like as you say مُنْذُ سَنْبَةٍ. (S.) And عِشْنَا بِهَا سَبَّةً and سَنْبَةً (assumed tropical:) We lived in it a space, or long space, of time. (Ks, TA.) And أَصَابَتْنَا سَبَّةٌ مِنَ الحَرِّ, and البَرْدِ, and الصَّحْوِ, (K, * TA,) and الرَّوْحِ, (TA,) (tropical:) A period of some days' continuance [of heat, and of cold and of serene weather, and of gentle wind, betided us]. (K, TA.) [The pl. is سِبَابٌ.] One says, الدَّهْرُ سِبَابٌ (assumed tropical:) Time consists of vicissitudes; one turn is thus, and one is thus. (ISh, TA.) سُبَّةٌ A disgrace; a shame; a thing that occasions one's being reviled. (S, M, A, K.) One says, صَارَ هٰذَا الأَمْرُ سُبَّةً عَلَيْهِ This thing became a disgrace to him, occasioning his being reviled. (S.) And أَنْتَ سُبَّةٌ عَلَى قَوْمِكَ [Thou art a disgrace to thy people]. (A.) [And ↓ مَسَبَّةٌ, in like manner, (a word of the class of مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ, being originally مَسْبَبَةٌ,) signifies A cause of reviling, or of being reviled; as is shown by the saying of Tufeyl El-Ghanawee, cited in the TA in art. عقب, فَلَمْ يَجِدِ الأَقْوَامُ فِينَا مَسَبَّةً

And the people did not find in us a cause of reviling, or of being reviled: pl. مَسَابُّ.] One says, ↓ إِيَّاكَ وَالمَسَبَّةَ and المَسَابَّ [Beware thou of, or avoid thou, the cause of reviling or of being reviled, and the causes thereof]. (A.) b2: Also One whom people revile (S, K) much. (K.) See also سُبَبَةٌ.

السِّبَّةُ: see السَّبَّابَةُ.

سَبَبٌ A rope, or cord; (S, M, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ سِبٌّ; (S, M, K;) the latter of the dial. of Hudheyl, (S,) and occurring in this sense in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce خَيْطَةٌ; (S, M;) accord. to some, as there meaning a wooden peg, [a meaning assigned to it in the K,] but the former is the correct meaning: (M:) the pl. of both words is أَسْبَابٌ, (M, TA, *) [and] the pl. of the latter word is سُبُوبٌ (S, TA) also: (TA:) or سَبَبٌ signifies any rope let down, or made to descend, from above: (AO, TA:) or a strong and long rope, but no rope is so called except one by means of which one ascends and descends: (Khálid Ibn-Jembeh, TA:) or this appellation is only given to a rope of which one end is attached to a roof or ceiling or the like: (TA:) or one by means of which one ascends palm-trees: (Er-Rághib, TA:) [and] a rope by means of which one reaches, or gains access to, water. (TA.) فَلْيَمْدُدْ بِسَبَبٍ إِلَى السَّمَآءِ ثُمَّ لِيَقْطَعْ, in the Kur [xxii. 15], means Let him stretch a rope to the roof, or ceiling, of his dwelling; then let him die strangled: i. e. let him die of rage: (M, TA:) or, as some say, let him stretch a rope to the lowest heaven; then let him traverse the intervening space until he reach the highest part thereof. (Bd.) The saying جَبَّتْ نِسَآءَ العَالَمِينَ بِالسَّبَبْ has been expl. in art. جب: in this instance, a rope or cord, may be meant; or a string, or thread. (M, TA.) b2: Hence, (Msb,) (tropical:) A thing (S, M, Msb, K) of any kind (S, Msb, K) by means of which one attains, reaches, or gains access to another thing: (S, M, Msb, K:) pl. as above. (M.) One says, جَعَلْتُ فُلَانًا لِى سَبَبًا إِلَى

فُلَانٌ فِى حَاجَتِى, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [I made such a one] a means of access [to such a one in the case of my want]. (TA.) Hence, (M,) أَسْبَابُ السَّمَآءِ (assumed tropical:) The places of ascent of the heaven, or sky: (M, K:) or the tracts, or regions, thereof: (S, K:) or the gates thereof. (Ibn-Es-Seed, K. [See an ex. in a verse cited voce ثَمَانُونَ.]) And the saying, اِرْتَقَى فِى الأَسْبَابِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He excelled [or attained to excellence] in religion. (M.) b3: (assumed tropical:) A road, or way. (A. [There mentioned among proper, not tropical, significations.]) So in the saying, in the Kur xviii. 88 and 91, ثُمَّ اتَّبَعَ سَبَبًا (assumed tropical:) [Then he followed a road, or way]. (Bd.) [And] so in the saying, مَا لِى إِلَيْهِ سَبَبٌ (assumed tropical:) [There is not for me any road, or way, to him, or it]. (A.) So too ↓ سَبِيبَةٌ: pl. سَبَائِبُ. (Ham p. 347.) b4: [(assumed tropical:) A mean, or means, used in order to any end: a means by which a thing is brought about: a cause; but more properly only a second cause: an occasion, or accidental cause: and a reason, or motive.] One says, هٰذَا سَبَبُ هٰذَا (assumed tropical:) [This is the cause, or occasion, of this]. (Msb.) and بِسَبَبِهِ كَانَ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [Because of him, or it, it was thus, or such a thing was]. (Msb in art اجل.) And سَبَّبَ اللّٰهُ لَكَ سَبَبَ خَيْرٍ (tropical:) [May God appoint, or prepare, for thee a means, or cause, of good, or prosperity]. (A.) b5: (tropical:) A connexion, or tie, (S, A, K, TA,) of relationship (S, K, TA) by marriage; distinguished from نَسَبٌ, which is by birth: from the same word as signifying “ a rope by means of which one reaches, or gains access to, water. ” (TA.) One says, اِنْقَطَعَ بَيْنَهُمُ السَّبَبُ i. e. (tropical:) The connexion, or tie, [of affinity between them was severed,] and الأَسْبَابُ the connexions, or ties. (A) وَتَقَطَّعَتْ بِهِمُ الأَسْبَابُ [in the Kur ii.

161] means, accord. to I'Ab, (assumed tropical:) And their ties and affections [shall be dissundered]: or, accord. to Az, (assumed tropical:) and their places of abode [shall be divided asunder]. (TA.) [But] قَطَعَ اللّٰهُ بِهِ السَّبَبَ means (assumed tropical:) [God cut short, or may God cut short,] his life. (M, K.) b6: Also, [from the same word as signifying the “ cord, or rope, of a بَيْت,” properly meaning “ tent,” and tropically “ verse,”] (assumed tropical:) A portion, or division, of a foot of a verse, consisting of a movent letter and a quiescent letter; and also one consisting of two movent letters: pl. أَسْبَابٌ. (M, K. [In some of the copies of the K, the latter kind is not mentioned.]) سَبَبٌ خَفِيفٌ (assumed tropical:) [A light cord] means a movent letter followed by a quiescent letter; as قُمْ and مِنْ: and سَبَبٌ ثَقِيلٌ (assumed tropical:) [A heavy cord], two movent letters; as لَكَ and لِمَ. (KT.) سَبَبَانِ مَقْرُونَانِ (assumed tropical:) [Two conjoined cords] means two portions in which are three successive short vowels followed by a quiescent letter; as مُتَفَا in مُتَفَاعِلُنْ, and عَلَتُنْ in مُفَاعَلَتُنْ: and سَبَبَانِ مَفْرُوقَانِ (assumed tropical:) [Two disjoined cords], two portions of which each consists of a movent letter and a quiescent letter, and which is followed by a movent letter; as مُسْتَفْ in مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ, and عِيلُنْ in مَفَاعِيلُنْ. (M, TA.) سُبَبَةٌ One who reviles people; (S, K;) as also ↓ مَسَبَّةٌ. (K.) One says, ↓ لَا تَكُنْ سُبَبَةً وَلَا سُبَّةً

[Be not thou a reviler of others, nor one whom others revile]. (A.) سَبَبِىٌّ Causative.]

سَبَبِيَّةٌ Causality.]

سَبِيبٌ: see سِبٌّ, second sentence.

A2: Also The hair of the forelock, (AO, S, M, A, K,) and of the tail, (S, M, A, K,) the latter meaning [only] assigned to it by Er-Riyáshee, (TA,) and of the mane, (S, M, K,) of a horse: (M, A, K:) pl. أَسَابِيبُ and سَبَائِبُ. (A, TA.) b2: And (assumed tropical:) A lock (خُصْلَة) of hair; as also ↓ سَبِيبَةٌ: (M, K:) pl. سَبَائِبُ: which is also expl. as (tropical:) syn. with ذَوَائِبُ [app. as meaning pendent locks, or pendent plaits, of hair]: (TA:) thus in the phrase اِمْرَأَةٌ طَوِيلَةُ السَّبَائِبِ (tropical:) A woman having the ذوائب long. (A, TA.) سَبِيبَةٌ see سِبٌّ: b2: and سَبِيبٌ: b3: and سَبَبٌ. b4: عَلَيْهِ سَبَائِبُ الدَّمِ means (tropical:) Upon him are, or were, streaks of blood: (A, TA:) the sing. of سبائب in this sense is سَبِيبَةٌ. (Ham p. 347.) A2: Also [Trees of the kind called] عضَاه abounding in a place. (M, K.) سَبَّابٌ [That cuts much, or sharply]. سَبَّابُ العَرَاقِيبِ means The sword: (K, TA:) or is an epithet applied to the sword: (A:) because it cuts the عراقيب [or hock-tendons]: (TA:) [but Z holds it to be tropical, from the signification following; for] it is added in the A, as though it were hostile to the عراقيب, and reviled them. (TA.) b2: [One who reviles much or frequently; or a great reviler: a meaning indicated in the Msb, and of frequent occurrence.]

السَّبَّابَةُ, an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, (M,) (tropical:) [The index, or fore finger;] the finger that is next to the thumb (S, M, A, * Msb, K, TA) and middle-finger; (M, TA;) between these two; (TA;) as also ↓ السِّبَّةُ: (K:) so called because one [often] points with it in reviling: (Msb:) called by persons praying المُسَبِّحَةُ and السَّبَّاحَةُ [because it is raised in asserting the unity of God]. (TA in the present art. and in art. سبح.) سَبْسَبٌ A desert; or a desert in which is no water, or in which is neither water nor herbage; syn. مَفَازَةٌ (S, K) and قَفْرٌ: (TA:) or a tract of land level and far-extending: (M, K:) or a [desert such as is termed] قَفْر that is far-extending, whether level or not level, rugged or not rugged, without water and without any one to cheer by his presence: (ISh, TA:) or a land affected with drought, barrenness, or dearth: (Aboo-Kheyreh, TA:) and بَسْبَسٌ signifies the same: (TA:) pl. سَبَاسِبُ: (M, TA:) A 'Obeyd explains سَبَاسِبُ and بَسَابِسُ as syn. with قِفَارٌ, [pl. of قَفْرٌ]. (TA.) One says also بَلَدٌ سَبْسَبٌ, (S, (K,) [using the latter word as an epithet;] and بَلَدٌ سَبَاسِبُ, (Lh, S, M, K,) thus using the pl. as though he termed every part of the بَلَد a سَبْسَب; (Lh, M;) or the pl. is added to give intensiveness to the meaning: (IAth, TA voce بَلْقَعٌ, q. v.:) but some say ↓ سُبَاسِبٌ, with damm; and this is more common, because it is a sing. epithet. (MF, TA.) A2: Also i. q. سَاسَبٌ [or سَيْسَبٌ (q. v. in art. سسب), if not a mistranscription for this last], i. e. A kind of tree, from which arrows, or, as in the book of AHn, camels' saddles (رِحَال), are made: Ru-beh says, [accord. to one reading, another being given in art. سسب, q. v.,] ↓ رَاحَتْ وَرَاحَ كَعَصَا السَّبْسَابِ [She went, and he went, like the rod of the sebsáb, meaning, the arrow]; in which the last word is a dial. var. of السَّبْسَب, or the ا is inserted by poetic license. (TA.) b2: [Hence, perhaps,] السَّبَاسِبُ, (M, K,) or يَوْمُ السَّبَاسِبِ, (S, TA,) A certain festival of the Christians; (S, * TA;) i. q. أَيَّامُ, السَّعَانِينِ, (Abu-l-'Alà, M, K,) or يَوْمُ السَّعَانِينِ [Palm-Sunday; now commonly called أَحَدٌ الشَّعَانِين or عِيدُ الشَّعَانِين, with ش]. (TA.) سَبْسَابٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

سُبَاسِبٌ: see the next preceding paragraph.

أُسْبُوبَةٌ [like أُهْجُوَّةٌ, contr. of أُمْدُوحَةٌ,] A thing [meaning reviling speech] with which persons revile one another: (M, TA:) pl. أَسَابِيبُ. (A, TA.) Using it in this sense, (M, TA,) one says, بَيْنَهُمْ أُسْبُوبَةٌ يَتَسَابُّونَ بِهَا [Between them is reviling speech] (S, M, A, * K) with which they revile one another. (M, TA.) أَسَابِيبُ pl. of سَبِيبٌ: A2: and also of أُسْبُوبَةٌ.

A3: أَسَابِيبُ الوَجْهِ The beauties of the face. (TA in art. سر.) مِسَبٌّ: see سِبٌّ, first signification.

مَسَبَّةٌ: see سُبَّةٌ, in two places: b2: and سُبَبَةٌ.

مُسَبَّبٌ [Much reviled: see its verb]. b2: مُسَبَّبَةٌ as an epithet applied to camels, (S, K, TA,) or to horses, (A,) and to wild asses, (TA,) means (tropical:) Goodly, or excellent: (S, A, * K, TA:) because (S, TA) they are such that one says of them, (S, A, TA,) when admiring them, (S, TA,) or when deeming them goodly, or excellent, (A,) May God curse them, (قَاتَلَهَا اللّٰهُ, S, A, TA,) and abase them: (أَخْزَاهَا: A, TA:) how goodly, or excellent, are they! (TA.) A2: [Also Made, appointed, or prepared, as a means, or cause, of attainment or accomplishment, لِأَمْرٍ for a thing, or an affair. And Caused, or occasioned: and a thing caused or occasioned; an effect.] One says, هٰذَا مُسَبَّبٌ عَنْ هٰذَا [This is caused, or occasioned, by that: this is an effect of, or arising from, that]. (Msb.) مُسَبِّبٌ [Reviling much: see its verb.

A2: and Making, appointing, or preparing, a means, or cause: and causing, or occasioning: and a causer].

مُسَبِّبُ الأَسْبَابِ [The Appointer, or Preparer, of means or causes; or the Causer of causes;] is an epithet applied to God. (S.) مُسْتَبٌّ [act. and pass. part. n. of 8]. It is said in a trad., المُسْتَبَّانِ شَيْطَانَانِ (A, TA) The two mutual revilers are two devils. (El-Munáwee in his Expos. of the Jámi' es-Sagheer of EsSuyootee.)