ربص
1 رَبَصَ بِفُلَانٍ, or بِالشَّىْءِ: see 5.
A2: رَبَصَنِى (
K) A thing, or an affair, or an event, put me in expectation. (
TA.) 5 تربّص He expected; or awaited: (
S:) he tarried; or tarried expecting. (
IAth.) You say تربّص الأَمْرَ He looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, the thing, or event. (
Msb.) and تربّص بِهِ الشَّىْءَ, (
M,) or الأَمْرَ, (
Msb,) He looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, the thing, or event, to befall him, or betide him. (
M,
Msb.) It is said in the
Kur [ix. 52], هَلْ تَرَبَّصُونَ بِنَا إِلَّا
إِحْدَى الْحُسْنَيَيْنِ [Do ye look for, &c., aught save one of the two best things (namely victory or martyrdom) to betide us?]. (
M.) And a poet says, تَرَبَّصْ بِهَا رَيْبَ المَنُونِ لَعَلَّهَا تُطَلَّقُ يَوْمًا أَوْ يَمُوتُ حَلِيلُهَا [Wait thou for the vicissitudes of fortune to befall her: perhaps she may be divorced some day, or her husband may die]. (
TA.) You say also, تربّص بِسِلْعَتِهِ الغَلَآءَ [He looked for, &c., a time of dearness for his commodity, or article of merchandise]. (
A.) And, [elliptically,) تربّص بِفُلَانٍ, (
K,) or بِالشَّىْءِ; (
M;) and بِهِ ↓ رَبَصَ, (
M,
A,
K,)
aor. ـُ (
TK,)
inf. n. رَبْصٌ; (
M,
A,
K;) He looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, [something] good or evil to befall, or betide, (
M,
A,
K,) such a one, (
A,
K,) or the thing: (
M:) or تربًّ بِالشَّىْءَ signifies he looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, a day for the thing. (
Lth.) رُبْصَةٌ An expecting; an awaiting; a waiting: (
AHát,
S,
A,
Msb,
K:) a tarrying; or tarrying in expectation. (
M.) You say, لِى فِى مَتَاعِى رُبْصَةٌ [I have to endure an expecting, &c., with respect to my goods, or commodities;
app. meaning, I have to wait for a favourable opportunity to sell them]. (
S, A.) And لِى بِالبَصْرَةِ رُبْصَةٌ [I have to endure an expecting, or a waiting, in ElBasrah]. (
AHát, A.) And لِى عَلَى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ رُبْصَةٌ [I have to endure a tarrying, or a tarrying in expectation, for, or on account of, this thing, or affair]. (
M.)
b2: Also The period that is assigned to a husband when he has been pronounced incapable of sexual intercourse with his wife; so that if he go in to her [it is well with him, and he remains her husband]; but if not, a separation is made between them: so in the saying, أَقَامَتِ الْمَرْأَةُ رُبْصَتَهَا فِى بَيْتِ زَوْجِهَا [The woman abode during the period so assigned to her husband in the house, or tent, of her husband]. (
ISk,
K.) [In like manner رُبْضَةٌ (perhaps a mistranscription) is explained in the
A and
TA in art. ربض: and the period is there said to be a year.]
مَرْبُوصٌ, applied to a man, (
K,) Put in expectation. (
TK.) مُتَرَبِّصُ One who withholds, or collects and withholds, wheat or the like, waiting for a time of dearness;
syn. مُحْتَكرٌ. (
S.)
