غبس
1 غَبَسَ, (
K,)
aor. ـُ (
TK,)
inf. n. غَبْسٌ; (
TA;) and غَبِسَ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. غَبَسٌ and غُبْسَةٌ; (
IKtt,
TA;) and ↓ أَغْبَسَ, (
K,) in some copies of the
K, erroneously, اِغْبَسَّ; (
TA;) and ↓ اِغْبَاسَّ; (
As,
K;) It (the night,
TA) was, or became, dark. (
K.) [See also غَبِشَ.]
A2: غَبَسَ وَجْهَهُ He blackened his face. (
TA.) 4 أَغْبَسَ see 1.
b2: اغبس الذِّئْبُ,
inf. n. إِغْبَاسٌ, [The wolf was, or became, of the colour termed غَبَس, and غُبْسَة.] (
TA.) 11 إِغْبَاْسَّ see the first paragraph.
غَبَسٌ The darkness of the end, or last part, of the night; as also غَبَشٌ: (
Lth:) or the darkness of the beginning, or first part, of the night; and غبش, that of the end, or last part, thereof: (
TA:) or the former has the first of the abovementioned significations; as also غَلَسٌ; and غبش, the second of those significations. (ElKhattábee,
MF.) [See also غَبَشٌ.] And Darkness [absolutely]; as also ↓ غُبْسَةٌ: or ↓ both signify whiteness in which is a duskiness or dinginess: (
K:) or the former, (
S,) and ↓ the latter, (
A,) a colour like that of ashes; (
S, A;) i. e., whiteness in which is a duskiness or dinginess: (
S:) or ↓ the latter, a hue between dust-colour inclining to black and dust-colour properly so called: (
IDrd:) or a colour between black and yellow. (
TA.) [See also غَلَسٌ.]
غُبْسَةٌ: see غَبَسٌ, in four places.
لَا آتِيكَ مَا غَبَا غُبَيْسٌ means I will not come to thee ever: (
S,
K:) but the origin of this saying is unknown: (
K:)
IAar said that he knew it not: (
S:) or,
accord. to him, it means, while time lasts: it seems that he did not know it at first, and then thus explained it: (
T,
TA:)
accord. to some, غُبَيْسٌ is an abbreviated
dim. of أَغْبَسُ, and means the wolf; (
S,
K; *) and غَبَا is originally غَبَّ, the ا being substituted for one of the letters of duplication, as in تَقَضَّى for تَقَضَّضَ; (
S;) and the saying means I will not come to thee as long as the wolf comes now and then (يَأْتِى غِبًّا) to the sheep or goats. (
S,
K. *) أَغْبَسُ Ash-coloured; (
Mgh;) of a colour like that of ashes; (
S;) of a dingy, or dusky, white; applied to a wolf: (
S,
K:) or it is an
epithet applied to any wolf: or, applied to a wolf, light, or active, and greedy:
fem. غَبْسَآءُ: (
TA:)
pl. غُبْسٌ. (
K.)
b2: Applied to an ass, Black. (
TA.)
b3: وَرْدٌ أَغْبَسُ, applied to a horse, [
app., Of a dusky bay colour;]
i. q. سَمَنْد; (
Mgh,
K;) what the Persians call by the latter term: (
S,
TA:) it is [a colour] desired by them. (
TA.)
