وثب
1 وَثَبَ,
aor. ـِ
inf. n. وَثْبٌ and وُثُوبٌ (the latter agreeable with
analogy,
TA,) and وَثَبَانٌ and وَثِيبٌ (
S,
K) and وِثاَبٌ (
K; but this is generally affirmed to be an
inf. n. of وَاثَبَ,
TA;) and ثِبَةٌ, (Ibn-
Málik and others) He leaped; jumped; sprang; bounded: (
S,
K:) or he leaped down, or downwards. (
Mgh,
Msb, art. طفر.)
b2: وَثَبَ المَوْضِعَ [He leaped, or jumped, upon, or over the place]. (
TA.)
b3: وَثَبَ إِلَى الشَّرَفِ وَثْبَةً (
tropical:) [He made a single leap to eminence, or nobility]. (
TA.)
b4: وَثَبَ إِلَيْهِ [
app., He leaped, or sprang up, or he hastened, to him]. (
TA.)
b5: الوُثُوبُ, except in the
dial. of Himyer, signifies The act of rising, or standing up. (
TA.)
b6: It is also much used by the vulgar as signifying The act of hastening to a thing; as observed by
MF, who is wrong in saying that there is nothing in the lexicons that favours its being so used. (
TA.)
A2: وَثَبَ, [
aor. ـِ
inf. n. وَثْبٌ, in the
dial. of Himyer signifies He sat; sat down. (
K,
TA, from a
trad.) ثِبْ in that
dial. signifies Sit; sit down. (
S.) It is related that Zeyd Ibn-Abd-Allah Ibn-Dárim came as an envoy to one of the kings of Himyer, and found him at a hunting-place belonging to him, on a high mountain, and he saluted him, and mentioned to him his lineage, or relationship; whereupon the king said to him ثِبْ, meaning إِجْلِسْ, Sit; but the man thought that he commanded him to leap from the mountain; and he said, “Thou shalt find me, O king, very obedient: ” then he leaped from the mountain, and perished. So the king said, “What ailed him? ” And they explained to him his case, and his mistake respecting the word: upon which he said لَيْسَتْ عِنْدَنَا عَرَبِيَّتْ مَنْ دَخَلَ ظَفَارِ حَمَّرَ i. e., [“ Arabic is not current with us: ” (for, probably, in the time of this king, the term عَرَبِيَّة was only applied to the general language of Arabia:) “ whoso entereth Dhafári,] let him learn [or, rather, speak, as
MF says,] the Himyeree language. ” (
Mz., 16th نوع.) [The principal facts of this anecdote are also mentioned in the
S, on the authority of
As.] By the king's saying عَرَبِيَّتْ was meant العَرَبِيَّةُ: the ة is pronounced ت in the case of a pause (which is the case here) in their dialect. (
S.) Or,
accord. to another relation of the above anecdote, the king said لَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا عَرَبِيَّتْ كَعَرَبِيَّتْكُمْ [“ Arabic like your Arabic is not current with us: ”] and this, says
ISd, is the right reading in my opinion: for the king did not mean to exclude himself from the Arabs. (
MF.) 2 وتّبه,
inf. n. تَوْثِيبٌ, He seated him upon a cushion: (
S,
K:) asserted to be of the
dial. of Himyer. (
MF.)
b2: وثّبه وِسَادَةً, (
S,
K,) in some copies of the
K وَثَبَهُ, (
TA,) He threw to him a cushion (
S,
L,
K) that he might sit upon it: (
S:) [
app. in the
dial. of Himyer].
b3: وَثَّبْتُهُ وِثَابًا I spread for him a bed, or the like. (
TA.) 3 واثبه He leaped, or sprang, upon him, or at him; he assaulted or assailed him;
syn. سَاوَرَهُ (
S,
K) and ثَاوَرَهُ. (
K, art. ثور) and صَاوَلَهُ. (
K, art. صول.)
b2: [Also, perhaps, He contended with him in leaping, jumping, springing, or bounding.]
b3: [واثبه is also mentioned in the
TA as having a signification not explained in the
K:
app., He contended with him in hastening to a thing.]
4 اوثبه He made him to leap, jump, spring, or bound. (
S,
Msb.)
b2: اوثبه المَوْضِعَ [He made him to leap, or jump, upon, or over, the place]. (
TA.) 5 توثّب فُلَانٌ فِى ضَيْعَةٍ لِى (
tropical:) Such a one took possession unjustly of an estate belonging to me; he seized upon it unjustly. (
S,
K.)
b2: توثّب فِى
أَرْضِهِ عَلَى أَخِيهِ (
tropical:) He took possession of his land with injustice towards his brother. (
A.)
b3: توثّب عَلَى مَنْزِلَتِهِ (
tropical:) He took possession unjustly of the place occupied by him. (
A.) 6 هُمْ يَتَوَاثَبُونَ عَلَى كَذَا They leap, or rush, together upon such a thing [in an evil, or injurious, or a contentious manner]. (
S, art. كلب.) التَّوَاثُبُ is
syn. with التَّكَالُبُ. (
S,
K, art. كلب.) وَثْبَةٌ A single leap, jump, spring, a bound: (
TA:) or a leap down, or downwards. (
Mgh,
Msb, art. طفر.) ثُبَةٌ An assembly; a company; a troop; a congregated body. (
K.) [But it seems rather to belong to the root ثبى, as remarked by Freytag; or,
accord. to some, to art. ثوب. See arts. ثبى and ثوب.]
وَثَبَى: see وَثَّاتٌ.
وِثَابٌ A throne, or couch;
syn. سَرِيرٌ; (
K;)
accord. to some, that is always occupied by the king; or that the king does not cease to occupy: (
TA:) [
app. of the
dial. of Himyer].
b2: A bed; or what is spread to lie or recline upon: (
K:)
ex. وَتَّبْتُهُ وِثَابًا I spread for him a bed, or the like: (
TA:) or places where persons sit;
syn. مَقَاعِدُ: (
S,
K:) in which case it is a
pl., as some have expressly affirmed it to be: (
TA:)
accord. to
IF and others, of the
dial. of Himyer. (
MF.) Applied to heaven (السَّمَاءُ) as being the sittingplaces of the angels. (
S.) ظَبْىٌ وَتَّابٌ An antelope that leaps, jumps, springs, or bounds, quickly. فَرَسٌ وَثَّابَةٌ A mare that leaps, &c., quickly. (
TA.)
b2: ↓ وَثَبَى
i. q. وَثَّابَةٌ; (
K;) i. e., That leaps, &c., quickly. (
TA.) مَوْثَبَانٌ A king who sits still, and does not undertake military expeditions: (
S,
K:) asserted to be of the
dial. of Himyer. (
MF.) مِيثَبٌ A plain, or level, land, or tract of land. (
K.)
b2: A leaper, or jumper. (
IAar,
K.)
b3: Also, [
contr.,] A sitter: (
IAar.,
K:) [
app. in the
dial. of Himyer].
b4: What is elevated, of land. (
K.)
b5: A rivulet, stream, or streamlet:
syn. جَدْوَلٌ. (
K.)
