جبه

1 جَبَهَهُ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـَ (Msb, K,) inf. n. جَبْهٌ, (Ham p. 355,) He slapped, (S,) or struck, (K,) or hit, (Msb,) or struck him on, (Ham ubi suprà,) his جَبْهَة [or forehead]. (S, Msb, K, and Ham ubi suprà.) b2: And [hence], (K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (TA,) (tropical:) He turned him back (K, TA) from the thing that he wanted: (TA:) or (tropical:) he met him, or encountered him, with, or he said to him, or did to him, a thing disliked, or hated: (K, TA, TK:) or (tropical:) he encountered him, or confronted him, with speech in which was roughness: (JK, M, TA:) or (tropical:) he encountered him with that which he disliked, or hated; or he accused him thereof to his face; (M, TA, and Ham ubi suprà;) or so جَبَهَهُ بِالمَكْرُوهِ. (S, TA.) b3: جَبَهَ المَآءَ, (JK, S, K,) inf. n. as above, (JK, S,) (tropical:) He came to the water, (JK, S, K,) when there was at it no apparatus for drawing, (S,) i. e. no pulley &c., (JK, TA,) or having no means of drawing, so that he only looked at the surface of the water. (Z, K.) [See also جَبِيهَةٌ.] b4: جَبَهَ القَوْمَ (tropical:) It (winter) came upon the people unprepared for it. (A, K.) 2 تَجْبِيهٌ The mounting a fornicator, or an adulterer, upon an ass, and turning his face towards the tail; whence the trad. of the Jews respecting the adulterer, يُحُمَّمُ وَيُجَبَّهُ ويُجْلَدُ [He shall have his face blackened with charcoal, and be mounted on an ass with his face towards the tail, and be flogged]: (Mgh:) or the mounting two fornicators, or adulterers, upon an ass, and turning the backs of their heads towards each other, (JK, Mgh,) and parading them round about; thus accord. to the Tekmileh: (Mgh:) or the blackening [with charcoal] the faces of two fornicators, or adulterers, (أَنْ يُحَمَّرَ in the K being a mistake for أَنْ يُحُمَّمَ, i. e. يُسَوَّدَ, TA,) and mounting them upon a camel or an ass, and turning their faces in contrary directions: accord. to analogy, it should mean turning their faces towards each other; for it is from الجَبْتَةُ: تَجْبِيهٌ also signifies the bending, inclining, lowering, or hanging down, the head towards the ground: and it may be hence; (i. e. it may be hence that it is applied to him who is mounted on a beast in the manner described above; TA;) because he to whom this is done bends down his head in shame and confusion: or it may be from جَبَهَهُ meaning "he did to him a thing disliked, or hated." (K.) 8 اِجْتِبَاهٌ The deeming [one] rude, coarse, unkind, hard, or churlish. (JK.) b2: And The fearing [a person or thing]. (JK.) b3: And اجتبههُ He disliked, or hated, and feared, it, or him; namely, a country, or town, and a man. (JK.) b4: He disapproved it, or disliked it, and did not find it wholesome; namely, water, (En-Nawádir, K,) &c. (K.) جَبَهٌ Largeness, (S,) or width (JK, M, K) and beauty, (M, K,) of the جَبْهَة [or forehead]: (JK, S, M, K:) or protuberance, or prominence, thereof. (M, K.) جَبْهَةٌ [The forehead;] the part of the face which is the place of prostration: (As, Msb, K:) or the even part that is between the eyebrows and the نَاصِيَة [or place where the hair grows in the fore part of the head]: (Kh, JK, Msb, K:) so of a man, (S, Msb,) and of others: (S:) [or,] of a horse, the part that is below the ears and above the eyes: (TA:) pl. جِبَاهٌ. (Msb, TA.) b2: [Hence,] الجَبْهَةُ (assumed tropical:) A certain Mansion of the Moon; [the Tenth Mansion;] (S, K, Kzw;) consisting of four stars; (S;) the four stars [ζ, γ, η, and α,] in the neck and heart of Leo; [regarded by the Arabs as the fore-part, or forehead, of Leo;] (Kzw in his descr. of Leo;) between each of which and the next to it is the space of a whip's length; the northernmost of them called by astrologers الأَسَدُ. (Kzw in his descr. of the Mansions of the Moon.) b3: Also (assumed tropical:) The moon (K, TA) itself: but [it rather seems to mean the upper part of the disc of the moon; for] it is said in the M that a certain unknown poet has metaphorically assigned a جبهة to the moon. (TA.) b4: Also جَبْهَةٌ, (tropical:) The chief of a people, or company of men; (JK, Mgh, K, TA;) like as one says the وَجْه thereof. (Mgh, TA.) b5: (tropical:) The generous and manly, or manly and noble, persons of a people, or company of men: or men exerting themselves in the case of a bloodwit or a debt or other obligation, (K, TA,) or in repairing the condition of a poor man, (TA,) and who come not to any one but he is ashamed to turn them back, (K, TA,) or who are seldom or never turned back by anyone: so, accord. to Aboo-Sa'eed, in a trad. in which it is said that there shall be no poor-rate in the case of the جبهة. (TA.) b6: (tropical:) A company, or collected number, of men, (JK, S, Msb,) and of horses: (JK, Msb:) or, of horses, the best: (TA:) and [simply] horses; (Lth, S, M, Mgh, K;) a word having no sing., or n. un.: (M, K:) accord. to Lth, (TA,) having this last meaning in the trad. above mentioned; (S, Mgh, TA;) because horses are the best of beasts. (Mgh.) A2: (tropical:) Abjectness, or ignominy; (JK, M, K, TA;) and a state of annoyance, or molestation: (Z, TA:) thought by ISd to be from جَبَهَهُ meaning “ he encountered him with that which he disliked or hated,” or “ he accused him thereof to his face; ” because the doing this causes one to experience abjectness, or ignominy. (TA.) It is said to have this meaning in a trad., in which it is said, فَإِنَّ اللّٰهَ قَدْ أَرَاحَكُمْ مِنَ الجَبْهَةِ والسَّجَّةِ والبَجَّةِ, i. e. For God hath relieved you from abjectness, or ignominy, &c., and milk diluted with water, and blood drawn from a vein [of a camel], which the Arabs used to eat: or in this trad., (TA,) الجَبْتَهَةُ is the name of a certain idol (ISd, K, TA) that was worshipped in the Time of Ignorance: (TA:) and السجّة and البجّة were two idols. (S and K in art. سج.) وَرَدْنَا مَآءً لَهُ جَبِيهَةٌ We came to a water that was salt, so that the drinking thereof did not take away the thirst of our cattle: (ISk, JK, S:) or that was altered for the worse in taste and colour, from some such cause as long standing, though still drinkable; or covered with the green substance called طُحْلُب and with leaves: or that was deep in the bottom, difficult to give to drink. (ISk, S.) [See also 1, last meaning but one.]

جُبَّهٌ i. q. جُبَّأٌ, (K,) i. e. A fearful, or cowardly, man. (TA.) جَابِهٌ, applied to a gazelle, (JK,) or to a bird or a wild animal, (K,) That meets one with its face or forehead; and such is of evil omen: (K:) contr. of قَعِيدٌ. (JK.) b2: Coming to water: so in a saying cited and explained in art. اذن, conj. 2. (IAar, TA.) أَجْبَهُ, applied to a man, Large, (S,) or wide (JK, M, K) and beautiful, (M, K,) in the جَبْهَة [or forehead]: (JK, S, M, K:) or protuberant, or prominent, therein: (M, K:) applied to a horse, having a protuberant, or prominent, forehead, rising beyond the bone of the nose: (TA:) fem. جَبْهَآءُ; (S, K;) of which the dim. is جُبَيْهَآءُ. (S.) b2: الأَجْبَهُ The lion; (K;) because of the width of his جَبْهَة. (TA.) جبو and جبى [The words belonging to the former of these two arts. cannot well be classed by themselves, being intimately connected with those of the latter, which are the more numerous and common, and from which they are generally easily distinguishable.]1 جَبَى, (K,) first Pers\. جَبَيْتُ, (Ks, S, Er-Rághib,) aor. ـِ (K;) and جَبَى, aor. ـَ (K,) said by MF to be unknown, and also, because neither the second nor the third radical is a faucial letter, unreasonable, but mentioned by Sb, though held by him to be of weak authority, and mentioned also by IAar, as extr., like أَبَى, aor. ـْ (TA;) and جَبَا, (TA,) first Pers\. جَبَوْتُ, (Ks, S, TA,) aor. ـُ (TA;) inf. n. [of the first and second] جَبْىٌ (Sh, K) and [probably of the last only] جَبًا and جِبًا and جُبًا and [of the last, but whether in the first or the second of the senses here following is not shown,] جِبْوَةٌ; (K; [or this last has a different application, explained below;]) He collected water in a trough or tank for beasts &c. [Ks, S, K, Er-Rághib.) b2: And (hence, metaphorically, Er-Rághib, TA) the first of these verbs, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, Er-Rághib,) and the second, (K,) and the third; (S, Msb, TA;) inf. n. (of the first, S, Msb) جِبَايَةٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K, Er-Rághib) and (of the last, S, Msb) جِبَاوَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and جَبْوٌ (TA) [and probably جِبْوَةٌ also, which see above]; (tropical:) He collected the [tax called] خَرَاج, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, Er-Rághib,) and [other] property. (Msb, TA.) The last of these verbs is said in the S to be originally with ء, though pronounced without ء; but IB says that this is not the case, and that it has not been heard with ء. (TA.) You say also, جَبَاهُ القَوْمَ (assumed tropical:) [He collected it from the people, or company of men]; (M, K, * TA;) and جَبَى مِنْهُمْ (assumed tropical:) [He collected from them]. (M, K, TA.) b3: Also جَبَا [or جَبَى], (TA,) first Pers\.

جَبَيْتُ, (Zj, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He appropriated a thing purely to himself, exclusively of any partner; chose it, or took it in preference, for himself. (Zj, TA.) And hence, (Zj, TA,) ↓ اجتباهُ (assumed tropical:) He chose it, or selected it, (Zj, S, K) لِنَفْسِهِ for himself. (TA.) A2: And جَبَى and جَبَا, [originally جَبَأَ,] He returned, receded, retreated, or went back. (TA.) 2 جبّى, inf. n. تَجْبِيَةٌ, He placed his hands upon his knees, (K, TA,) in prayer; (TA;) or upon the ground: or he fell prostrate; or fell upon his face: (K:) or he lowered his body and his hands, and raised his buttocks: (Ham p. 801:) [or] تجبية signifies a man's standing [with the hands upon the knees] in the manner of the رَاكِع: (S, K: *) accord. to A'Obeyd, what is thus termed is of two kinds: one is the placing the hands upon the knees, while standing: the other, the prostrating oneself, or falling upon the face, lying down; which is سُجُودٌ: (S:) or the bending down, and placing the hands upon the knees; because it is a bringing-together of the limbs. (Mgh.) A2: جبّاهُ, inf. n. as above, meaning He gave to him, is vulgar. (TA.) 4 اجبى in the trad. مَنْ أَجْبَى فَقَدْ أَرْبَى is originally أَجْبَأَ [q. v.]: (S:) accord. to IAth, it is a corruption of the relater, or the ء is suppressed to assimilate the verb to اربى (TA.) The inf. n., إِجْبَآءٌ, is variously explained, as follows: (TA:) The selling seed-produce before it shows itself to be in a good state: (A'Obeyd, Th, S, K:) and a man's hiding his camels from the collector of the poor-rate: (IAar, A'Obeyd, K:) and i. q. عِينَةٌ; i. e. the selling to a man a commodity for a certain price to be paid at a certain period, then buying it of him with ready money for a less price than that for which it was sold. (TA.) 8 اِجْتِبَآءٌ (assumed tropical:) The drawing forth property from the places in which it is known, or presumed, or accustomed, to be. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) The collecting in the way of choice, or selection. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b3: See also 1, last sentence but one. b4: Also (assumed tropical:) God's particular, or peculiar, distinguishing of men by abundant bounty, from which various blessings result to them without their labour; as happens to prophets and some others. (Er-Rághib, TA.) b5: Also اجتباهُ, (assumed tropical:) He forged it: and he extemporized it. (TA.) Hence, in the Kur [vii. 202], قَالُوا لَوْلَا اجْتَبَيْتَهَا (assumed tropical:) They say, Wherefore hast thou not forged it, (Fr, TA,) or produced it, (Th, TA,) or invented it, (Jel,) or put it together by forgery, (Bd,) of thyself? (Fr, Th, Bd, Jel, TA:) or wherefore hast thou not sought it, or demanded it, of God? (Bd.) جَبًا, or جَبًى, (as in different copies of the K,) written with ا and with ى, (TA,) The camel-waterer's going in advance of the camels a day before their coming to the water, and collecting for them water in the drinking-trough, and then bringing them to it (IAar, K, TA) on the morrow. (IAar, TA.) [App. an inf. n., of which, in this sense, the verb is not mentioned.] So in the verse, بِالرَّيْثِ مَا أَرْوَيْتُهَا لَا بِالعَجَلْ وَبِالجَبَا أَرْوَيْتُهَا لَا بِالقَبَلْ [Slowly I satisfied their thirst; not hastily: and by going in advance of them a day, and collecting for them water in the trough, and bringing them to it on the morrow, I satisfied their thirst; not by pouring the water into the trough while they were drinking, without having prepared any for them beforehand]. (IAar, TA.) A2: Also the former, Water collected [in a trough]; and so ↓ جُبْوَةٌ, with damm. (TA. [See جِبًا.]) b2: A wateringtrough (K, TA) in which water is collected: (TA:) or the station of the drawer of water, upon the [upper part of the] casing. (K.) b3: The place where a well is dug: (K:) in this sense, and in the next, also written جَبًى (TA.) b4: The brink, or margin, of a well. (A boo-Leylà, K.) The earth that is around a well, that is seen from afar; (S;) originally جَبَأٌ: (TA:) what is around a well: (K:) and what is around a wateringtrough: (TA:) pl. أَجْبَآءٌ. (K.) A3: جَبَا meaning A gift without compensation is a vulgar word. (TA.) جِبًا Water collected (T, S, K) in a trough, (T, K,) being drawn from a well, (T, TA,) for camels; (S;) [like جَبًا;] as also ↓ جِبْوَةٌ, (K, TA, and so in a copy of the S, but omitted in the CK,) or ↓ جَبْوَةٌ, (so in two copies of the S,) and ↓ جُبْوَةٌ also, (so in a copy of the S, [see جَبًا,]) and ↓ جَبَاوَةٌ, (K, TA, and so in a copy of the S,) and ↓ جَبَاوَةٌ, (K, TA, and so in another copy of the S, but omitted in the CK,) and ↓ جِبَآءَةٌ: (TA as from the K, but not in the CK: [perhaps a mistranscription for ↓ جِبَايَةٌ:]) but accord. to IAmb, جِبًا is pl. of ↓ جِبْيَةٌ. (TA.) جَبْوَةٌ; see جِبًا.

جُبْوَةٌ: see جَبًا and جِبًا.

جِبْوَةٌ: see جِبًا.

A2: Also (assumed tropical:) A mode, or manner, of collecting the [tax called] خَرَاج; and so ↓ جِبْيَةٌ, which Lh calls an inf. n. (TA.) جِبْيَةٌ: see what next precedes: b2: and see جِبًا.

جِبَآءَةٌ: see جِبًا.

جَبَاوَةٌ and جِبَاوَةٌ: see جِبًا.

جِبَايَةٌ: see جِبًا. b2: (assumed tropical:) The tax called إِتَاوَة [or خَرَاج]. (TA in art. اتو.) [Originally an inf. n.]

جَبَايَا [a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned] Wells which are dug, and in which the shoots of grape-vines are set. (AHn, K.) جَابٍ A collector of water for camels: belonging to arts. جبو and جبى. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) The locust (K) that collects everything by eating it; as also جَابِىءٌ [q. v.]. (TA.) The Arabs say, إِذَا جَآءَتِ السَّنَةُ جَآءَ مَعَهَا الجَابِى وَالجَانِى, i. e. (assumed tropical:) [When the year of drought comes,] the locust and the wolf [come with it]. (IAar, TA.) جَابِيَةٌ A watering-trough, (S,) or large wateringtrough, (K,) in which water is collected (S) for camels: (TA:) or a watering-trough that collects water: (Er-Rághib, TA:) pl. جَوَابٍ. (S.) Hence, in the Kur [xxxiv. 12], وَجَفَانٍ كَالجَوَابِى [and bowls like watering-troughs, or great wateringtroughs]. (S.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A company of men. (K, * TA.) لُؤْلُؤَةٌ مُجَبَّاةٌ A hollowed pearl: (Ibn-Wahb, TA:) the latter word thought by El-Khattábee to be formed by transposition from مُجَوّبَةٌ. (TA.)

حشر

1 حَشَرَ, aor. ـُ and حَشِرَ, (S, Msb, K,) the former of which aor. . is found in the seven readings of the Kur, (Msb,) inf. n. حَشْرٌ, (S, Msb, K,) He congregated, or collected together, (S, Msb, K,) men: (S, Msb:) or he congregated them, or collected them together, and drove them: (Msb, TA:) he made them to go forth, collected together, from one place to another: (Bd in lix. 2:) he, or it, compelled them to emigrate: (K, * TA: [in the CK الخَلَآءُ is put by mistake for الجَلَاءُ, the explanation of the inf. n.:]) and [simply] he drove towards a place or quarter. (TA.) Hence يَوْمُ الحَشْرِ (tropical:) [The day of congregation, &c.; meaning] the day of resurrection: (S, * TA:) [see also مَحْشِرٌ:] and سُورَةُ الحَشْرِ (tropical:) [The Chapter of the Compulsion to emigration; which is the fifty-ninth chapter of the Kur-an]. (TA.) It is said by most of the expositors of the Kur that the wild animals and other beasts, and even the flies, will be collected together (تُحْشَرُ) for retaliation; and they cite a trad. on this subject. (TA.) So in the Kur [lxxxi. 5], وَ إِذَا الوُحُوشُ حُشِرَتْ And when the wild animals shall be collected together, (Bd, Jel,) from every quarter, (Bd,) after resurrection; (Jel;) or raised to life, (Bd,) for the purpose of their retaliating, one upon another; after which they shall return to dust: (Bd, Jel:) or the meaning is, shall die, (Az, S,) in the present world; accord. to some: (Az:) and thus says 'Ikrimeh, (S, TA,) on the authority of I'Ab, (TA,) as is related by Sa'eed Ibn-Masrook: (S, TA:) but accord. to some, the two meanings are nearly the same; for each denotes collection. (TA.) حَشْرٌ also signifies The going forth with a people fleeing or hastening or dispersing themselves in war; when used absolutely. (TA.) b2: حَشَرَتْهُمُ السَّنَةُ, aor. ـُ and حَشِرَ (Lth,) inf. n. حَشْرٌ, (K,) (tropical:) The year of dearth destroyed their camels and other quadrupeds; because it causes the owners to collect themselves from the various quarters to the cities or towns: (Lth:) or it caused them to go down to the cities or towns: (A:) or it distressed them; app., because of their collecting themselves together from the desert to the places of settled abodes: (Abu-t- Teiyib:) and حَشَرَتِ السَّنَةُ مَالَ فُلَانٍ The year of dearth destroyed the camels &c. of such a one. (S, K. *) A2: حَشَرَهُ, (S, A,) inf. n. حَشْرٌ, (S, K,) (tropical:) He made it (a spear-head, S, A) thin, or slender: (S, A, K:) he made it (a spear-head, and a knife,) sharp, or pointed, and thin, or slender: (TA:) he made it small, and thin, or slender: (Th:) he pared it; namely, a stick: (TA:) he pared it, and made it sharp, or pointed. (S.) 7 انحشروا They (people) became collected together from the desert to the places of settled abodes. (Abu-t-Teiyib.) حَشْرٌ (tropical:) Anything thin, or slender, or elegant. (TA.) You say أُذُنُ حَشْرٌ (tropical:) A thin, or an elegant, ear; (Lth, ISk, S, A, K;) as though it were pared, (Lth, S,) and made sharp: (S:) or small, elegant, and round: (Lth:) or thin at the end: (Th:) or sharp-pointed: (TA:) and the epithet is the same for the dual also and the pl.: (K:) [J says that] it does not admit the dual form nor the pl., because it is originally an inf. n., and the expression above mentioned is like مَآءٌ غَوْرٌ and مَآءٌ سَكْبٌ: but اذن حَشْرَةٌ is sometimes said: (S:) and the pl. حُشُورٌ occurs in a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abee-'Áïdh: (TA:) and you also say اذن ↓ مَحْشُورَةٌ. (TA.) حَشْرٌ is also applied in the same sense as an epithet to other things. (S) You say قُذَّةٌ حَشْرٌ (tropical:) A thin, or an elegant, feather of an arrow; (Lth, S, A, K;) as though it were pared: (Lth:) or sharp-pointed. (TA.) Also سِنَانٌ حَشْرٌ (tropical:) A thin, or slender, spear-head: (S, K:) or sharp, or sharp-pointed: and سِكِّينٌ حَشْرٌ in like manner: and حَرْبَةٌ حَشْرَةٌ: (TA:) and سَهْمٌ حَشْرٌ, and سِهَامٌ حُشْرٌ: like جَوْنٌ and جُونٌ, and وَرْدٌ and وُرْدٌ: (Akh, S:) or سَهْمٌ حَشْرٌ signifies an arrow having straight, or even, feathers; and so ↓ سهم مَحْشُورٌ; and ↓ حَشِرٌ, of the same measure as كَتِفٌ, an arrow having good feathers attached to it. (TA.) You also say بَعِيرٌ حَشْرُ الأُذُنِ (tropical:) A camel having a thin, or an elegant, ear. (TA.) حَشِرٌ: see حَشْرٌ.

حَشَرَةٌ and حَشَرَاتٌ, (K,) each being a coll. n. without a sing.; (TA;) or the former is sing. of the latter; (S, Msb;) Any small animals that creep or walk upon the earth; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) as jerboas and hedgehogs and lizards of the kind called ضَبّ and the like: (TA:) or the former, (Msb,) or latter, (Mgh,) is applied to rats or mice, and jerboas, and lizards of the kind above mentioned, (Mgh, Msb,) colleted together: (Msb:) or any venomous or noxious reptiles or the like, such as scorpions and serpents; syn. هَوَامُّ; (As, K;) as also أَحْرَاشٌ and أَحْنَاشٌ. (As.) b2: Also the former, Whatever is captured, snared, entrapped, hunted, or chased, of wild animals or the like, birds, and fish, &c.; (K;) whether small or great: (TA:) or the great thereof: or what is eaten thereof: (K:) thus in all the copies of the K; but the pronoun [in the latter case] does not refer to the animals &c. above mentioned: it is expressly said in the T and M that the word signifies whatever is eaten of herbs, or leguminous plants, of the earth, such as the دُعَاع and فَثّ. (TA.) حَاشِرٌ One who congregates, or collects together, people. (TA.) With the article ال, applied to Mohammad; (S, K;) because he collects people after him (S, IAth) and to his religion. (IAth.) b2: A collector of spoils: (El-Hulwánee, Mgh:) and [its pl.] حُشَّارٌ signifies collectors of the tithes and poll-tax. (TA.) مَحْشِرٌ (S, K) and مَحْشَرٌ (K) A place of congregation: (S, K:) a term used when people are collected together to a town or country, and to an encampment, and the like. (TA.) Hence, يَوْمُ المَحْشِرِ [The day of the place of congregation; meaning the day of judgment]. (TA.) مَحْشُورٌ; and its fem., with ة: see حَشْرٌ.

قَابِسُ:
إن كان عربيّا فهو من أقبست فلانا علما ونارا أو قبسته فهو قابس، بكسر الباء الموحدة:
مدينة بين طرابلس وسفاقس ثم المهدية على ساحل البحر فيها نخل وبساتين غربي طرابلس الغرب، بينها وبين طرابلس ثمانية منازل، وهي ذات مياه جارية من أعمال إفريقية في الإقليم الرابع، وعرضها خمس وثلاثون درجة، وكان فتحها مع فتح القيروان سنة 27 على ما يذكر في القيروان، قال البكري: قابس مدينة جليلة مسوّرة بالصخر الجليل من بنيان الأول ذات حصن حصين وأرباض وفنادق وجامع وحمّامات كثيرة وقد أحاط بجميعها خندق كبير يجرون إليه الماء عند الحاجة فيكون أمنع شيء، ولها ثلاثة أبواب، وبشرقيّها وقبليّها أرباض يسكنها العرب والأفارق، وفيها جميع الثمار، والموز فيها كثير وهي تمير القيروان بأصناف الفواكه، وفيها شجر التوت الكثير ويقوّم من الشجرة الواحدة منها من الحرير ما لا يقوّم من خمس شجرات غيرها، وحريرها أجود الحرير وأرقّه وليس في عمل إفريقية حرير إلا في قابس، واتصال بساتين ثمارها مقدار أربعة أميال، ومياهها سائحة مطرّدة يسقى بها جميع أشجارها، وأصل هذا الماء من عين خرّارة في جبل بين القبلة والغرب منها يصبّ في بحرها، وبها قصب السكر كثير، وبقابس منار كبير منيف يحدو به الحادي إذا ورد من مصر يقول:
يا قوم لا نوم ولا قرارا ... حتى نرى قابس والمنارا
وساحل مدينة قابس مرفأ للسّفن من كل مكان، وحوالي قابس قبائل من البربر: لواتة ولماتة ونفوسة وزواوة وقبائل شتّى أهل أخصاص، وكانت ولايتها منذ دخل عبيد الله إفريقية تتردد في بني لقمان الكناني، ولذلك يقول الشاعر:
لولا ابن لقمان حليف الندى ... سلّ على قابس سيف الرّدى
وبين مدينة قابس والبحر ثلاثة أميال، ومما يذكرون من معايبهم أن أكثر دورهم لا مذاهب لهم فيها وإنما يتبرّزون في الأفنية فلا يكاد أحد منهم يفرغ من
قضاء حاجته إلا وقد وقف عليه من يبتدر أخذ ما خرج منه لطعمة البساتين وربما اجتمع على ذلك النفر فيتشاحّون فيه فيخصّ به من أراد منهم، وكذلك نساؤهم لا يرين في ذلك حرجا عليهن إذا سترت إحداهن وجهها ولم يعلم من هي، ويذكر أهل قابس أنها كانت أصحّ البلاد هواء حتى وجدوا طلسما ظنوا أن تحته مالا فحفروا موضعه فأخرجوا منه قربة غبراء فحدث عندهم الوباء من حينئذ بزعمهم، وأخبر أبو الفضل جعفر بن يوسف الكلبي وكان كاتبا لمونس صاحب إفريقية أنهم كانوا في ضيافة ابن وانمو الصنهاجي فأتاه جماعة من أهل البادية بطائر على قدر الحمامة غريب اللون والصورة ذكروا أنهم لم يروه قبل ذلك اليوم في أرضهم كان فيه من كل لون أجمله وهو أحمر المنقار طويله، فسأل ابن وانمو العرب الذين أحضروه هل يعرفونه ورأوه فلم يعرفه أحد ولا سمّاه، فأمر ابن وانمو بقصّ جناحيه وإرساله في القصر، فلما جنّ الليل أشعل في القصر مشعل من نار فما هو إلا أن رآه ذلك الطائر فقصده وأراد الصعود إليه فدفعه الخدّام فجعل يلحّ في التقدم إلى المشعل فأعلم ابن وانمو بذلك فقام وقام من حضر عنده، قال جعفر:
وكنت ممن حضر فأمر بترك الطائر في شأنه فطار حتى صار في أعلى المشعل وهو يتأجج نارا واستوى في وسطه وجعل يتفلى كما يتفلى الطائر في الشمس، فأمر ابن وانمو بزيادة الوقود في المشعل من خرق القطران وغيره فزاد تأجج النار والطائر فيه على حاله لا يكترث ولا يبرح ثم وثب من المشعل بعد حين فلم ير به ريب واستفاض هذا بإفريقية وتحدث به أهلها، والله أعلم، وقد نسب إليها طائفة وافرة من أهل العلم، منهم: عبد الله بن محمد القابسي من مشايخ يحيى بن عمر، ومحمد بن رجاء القابسي، حدث عنه أبو زكرياء البخاري، وعيسى بن أبي عيسى بن نزار بن بجير أبو موسى القابسي الفقيه المالكي الحافظ، سمع بالمغرب أبا عبد الله الحسين بن عبد الرحمن الأجدابي وأبا علي الحسن بن حمول التونسي، وبمكة أبا ذر الهروي، وببغداد أبا الحسن روح الحرّة العتيقي وأبا القاسم بن أبي عثمان التنوخي وأبا الحسين محمد بن الحسين الحرّاني وأبا محمد الجوهري وأبا بكر بن بشران وأبا الحسن القزويني وغيرهم، وحدث بدمشق فروى عنه عبد العزيز الكناني وأبو بكر الخطيب ونصر المقدسي، وكان ثقة، ومات بمصر سنة 447.

سوك

1 سَاكَ الشَّىْءَ, (IDrd, O, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. سُوْكٌ, (IDrd, O, Msb,) He rubbed the thing, or rubbed it well. (IDrd, O, Msb, K.) b2: See also 2.

A2: And see 6.2 سوّك فَاهُ, (S, O, Msb,) or سوّك فَمَهُ بِالعُودِ, (K,) inf. n. تَسْوِيكٌ; (S, O, Msb, K;) and ↓ سَاكَهُ, (O, K,) aor. and inf. n. as in the first paragraph, (O,) or inf. n. سِوَاكٌ; (Msb; [there said to be an inf. n., as well as a subst. syn. with مِسْوَاكٌ, but without the mention of its verb;]) and ↓ استاك and ↓ تسوَك, these two used without the mention of the mouth (S, O, Msb, K) or the stick; (K;) [He rubbed and cleaned his teeth with the سِوَاك, or مِسْوَاك.]5 تَسَوَّكَ see the next preceding paragraph.6 تَسَاوُكٌ and سِوَاكٌ [each an inf. n., the verb of the latter, if it have one, being app. ↓ سَاكَ,] A weak manner of going: or a bad manner of going, resulting from slowness or emaciation: (K, TA:) so says ISk. (TA.) One says, جَآءَتِ الإِبِلُ تَسَاوَكُ, [for تَتَسَاوَكُ,] i. e. The camels came inclining from side to side, in consequence of weakness, in their going along. (S, O.) [Or]

تساوكت الإِبِلُ means The camels had an agitation of their necks in consequence of leanness. (IF, Msb.) In the M it is said that جَآءَت الغَنَمُ مَاتَسَاوَكُ means The sheep, or goats, came, not moving their heads, in consequence of weakness. (TA.) 8 إِسْتَوَكَ see 2.

سِوَاكٌ and ↓ مِسْوَاكٌ signify the same; (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K;) i. e. A tooth-stick; a piece of stick with which the teeth are rubbed [and cleaned, the end being made like a brush by beating or chewing it so as to separate the fibres]; (K, * TA;) [commonly] a piece of stick of the [kind of tree called] أَرَاك: (Msb:) accord. to IDrd, derived from سُكْتُ الشَّىْءَ meaning “ I rubbed, or rubbed well, the thing; ” (O, Msb;) accord. to IF, from تساوكت الإِبِلُ [expl. above]: (Msb:) accord. to Lth, (T, TA,) سِوَاكٌ is masc. and fem., (IDrd, T, M, O, K,) though it is the more approvable way to make it masc.; (O;) but Az holds this to be a mistake, and the word to be masc. [only]; and Hr says that this assertion of Lth is one of his foul mistakes: (TA:) its pl. is سُوُكٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and سُوْكٌ (Az, TA) and سُؤُكٌ, (AHn, TA,) and [of pauc.] أَسْوِكَةٌ; and the pl. of ↓ مِسْوَاكٌ is مَسَاوِيكُ. (TA.) In the saying, in a trad., خَيْرُ خِلَالِ الصَّائِمِ السِّوَاكُ, a prefixed n. is [said to be] suppressed [so that the meaning is The best of the habits, or customs, of the faster is the use of the tooth-stick: but see 2, where سِوَاكٌ is said, on the authority of the Msb, to be also an inf. n.].

مِسْوَاكٌ: see سِوَاكٌ, in two places.