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.)

عض

1 عَضِضْتُهُ, and عَضِضْتُ عَلَيْهِ, (S, O, Msb, K,) and بِهِ (S, O, Msb,) third Pers\. عَضَّ, (S,) aor. ـَ (S, Msb, K,) i. e. يَعَضُّ, (ISk, S, O,) imp. عَضّ [i. e. عَضَّ and عَضِّ] and اِعْضَضٌ, (TA,) inf. n. عَضٌّ (Mgh, O, Msb, K) and عَضِيضٌ (O, K) and عُضَاضٌ, (TA, [see also عِضَاضٌ, below,]) [I bit it; or] I seized it, or took hold of it, with my teeth, (A, Mgh, Msb, K,) and pressed it therewith; (TA;) namely, a thing, (A,) or a morsel of food: (S, Msb:) or with my tongue; (A, K;) as, for instance, a serpent does; but not a scorpion; for this latter stings: (TA:) accord. to the Book of Verbs by IKtt, one also says عَضَضْتُ, aor. ـُ (Msb:) and [it has been asserted that] one says, (Msb, K,) though rarely, (Msb,) عَضَضْتُ, aor. ـَ (Msb, K:) it is said in the S [and O] that ISk cites AO as asserting that عَضَضْتُ, with fet-h [to the first ض] is a dial. var. [which obtained] among [the tribes of] Er-Ribáb: but, IB says, this is a mistranscription; for what ISk says, in the book entitled “ ElIsláh,” is, غَصِصْتُ بِاللُّقْمَةِ فَأَنَا أَغَصُّ بِهَا غَصَصًا قَالَ

أَبُو عُبَيْدَةَ وَغَصَصْتُ لُغَةٌ فِى الرِّبَابِ, with [the pointed غ and] the unpointed ص: to which [says SM] I add, that thus it is found in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeyà and of Ibn-El-Jawáleekee, in the “ Isláh ” of ISk, and they expressly assert that what is in the S is a mistranscription. (TA.) b2: عَضَّ الفَرَسُ عَلَى لِجَامِهِ [The horse champed his bit]. (Msb.) b3: It is said in the Kur [iii. 115], وَإِذَا خَلَوْا عَضَّوا عَلَيْكُمُ الأَنَامِلَ مِنَ الغَيْظِ (assumed tropical:) [and when they are alone, they bite the ends of the fingers by reason of wrath, or rage, against you]: meaning that, by reason of the vehemence of their hatred of the believers, they eat [or rather bite] their hands in wrath, or rage. (O, TA.) Yousay also, عَضَّ عَلَى يَدِهِ غَيْظًا (tropical:) [He bit his hand in wrath, or rage], when a man is inordinate in his enmity. (TA.) In like manner, it is said in the Kur [xxv. 29], وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ (tropical:) [And the day when the wrong-doer shall bite his hands]; meaning, in repentance and regret. (O, TA.) And it is said in a prov., عَضَّ عَلَى شِبْدِعِهِ, i. e. لِسَانِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He bit his tongue]: applied to the clement, or forbearing. (O, TA.) One says also, عَضَّ بِالْخَمْسِ, meaning He bit the fingers. (Ham p. 790.) b4: عَضَّ فِى العِلْمِ بِنَاجِذِهِ (tropical:) He confirmed his knowledge; made it sound. (Mgh.) b5: Mohammad said, عَلَيْكُمْ بِسُنَّتِى وَسُنَّةِ الخُلَفَآءِ الرَّشِدِينَ مِنْ بَعْدِى عَضُّوا عَلَيْهَا بِالنَّوَاجِذِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [Keep ye to my course of conduct, and the course of conduct of the orthodox Khaleefehs after me:] cleave ye, or hold ye fast, thereto. (Mgh, * Msb.) and you say, of a man, عَضَّ بِصَاحِبِهِ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـَ (S,) inf. n. عَضِيضٌ (S, O, K) and عَضٌّ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He kept, or clave, to his companion; (S, O, K;) he stuck to him: (TA:) and عَضَّهُ has the same, which is said to be the primary, signification; (TA;) or this signifies he seized him with his teeth, because the doing so is a means of cleaving. (IAth, TA.) You say also عضضت بِمَالِى, [so in the TA, without any vowel-signs to the verb,] inf. n. عُضُوضَةٌ and عَضَاضَةٌ, [to agree with which, the pret. by rule should be عَضُضْتُ,] (assumed tropical:) I clave, or held fast, to my property. (TA.) And عَضَّ فُلَانٌ بِالشَّرِّ (tropical:) Such a one kept, or clave, to evil, or mischief, and did not leave it. (A, TA.) b6: عَضَّهُ, (Aboo-'Is-hák, TA in art. همز,) or عَضَّهُ بِلِسَانِهِ, (A, TA, *) inf. n. عَضٌّ, (TA,) (tropical:) He defamed him; spoke evil of him; or backbit him. (Aboo-Is-hák, ubi suprà; A, TA.) b7: عَضَّ الثِّقَافُ بِأَنَابِيبِ الرُّمْحِ, and عَضَّ عَلَيْهَا, inf. n. عَضٌّ, (tropical:) The straighteninginstrument held fast to [or pinched] the internodal portions of the spear. (TA.) b8: عَضَّهُ القَتَبُ, inf. n. عَضٌّ, (tropical:) [The camel's saddle hurt him] as though it bit him. (IB.) b9: عَضَّهُمُ السِّلَاحُ (tropical:) [The weapon, or weapons, wounded them]. (O, TA.) b10: عَضَّهُ الأَمْرُ (tropical:) The thing, or affair, was, or became, severe, or distressing, or afflictive, to him. (A, TA.) And you say also, عَضَّتْهُ الحَرْبُ (A, O) and عَضَّتْ بِهِ (tropical:) War, or the war, was, or became, severe to him. (Ham p. 628. See an ex. voce رَحِيمٌ.) عَضُّ الزَّمَانِ and الحَرْبِ signify (tropical:) The severity, or rigour, of time, or fortune, and of war: or in these two cases, the former word is with ظ: (K:) or, accord. to IKtt and others, عَضّ and عَظّ are two dial. vars. (TA.) and عَضَّ, aor. ـَ inf. n. عَضِيضٌ, signifies also (assumed tropical:) He, or it, was, or became, strong, or hard; syn. اِشْتَدَّ and صَلُبَ: (IKtt, TA:) app. said of a man: (TA:) [or, thus used, it has a more comprehensive meaning; for] it is said in the S that عَضِضْتَ, addressed to a man, signifies (tropical:) thou becamest, or hast become, such as is termed عِضٌّ [q. v.]; and the like is said in the A; and Sgh adds [in the O] that its inf. n. is عَضَاضَةٌ. (TA.) b11: عَضَّتْهُ الأَسْفَارُ (tropical:) Travels rendered him experienced, or expert. (A, TA.) And one says, عَضَّتْهُ الأَمُورُ بِأَضْرَاسِهَا وَأَكَلَتْهُ حَتَّى عَرَّفَتْهُ (assumed tropical:) [The management of affairs rendered him experienced so that they taught him]. (A in art. جرس.) 2 عضّضهُ, inf. n. تَعْضِيضٌ, [He bit him, or it, much, or frequently,] a word of the dial. of Temeem. (TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ يُعَضِّضُ شَفَتَيْهِ Such a one bites (يَعَضُّ) his lips much, or often, by reason of anger. (S.) And, of an ass, عَضَّضَتْهُ الحُمُرُ The asses bit him much, (O, K,) and lacerated him with their teeth. (O.) b2: [and hence,] عضّض He jested with his girl, or young woman. (IAar, O, K.) A2: Also عضّض, (inf. n. as above, IAar,) (assumed tropical:) He drew water from a well such as is termed عَضُوضٌ. (IAar, O, K.) A3: And He fed his camels with [the provender termed] عُضّ. (IAar, O, K.) 3 عَاضَّتِ الدَّوَابُّ, (K, * TA,) inf. n. عِضَاضٌ (S, K) and مُعَاضَّةٌ, (S,) The beasts bit one another. (S, * K, * TA.) And in like manner you say, هُمَا

↓ يَتَعَاضَّانِ They two bite each other. (S.) b2: [Hence the saying,] عَاضَّ القَوْمُ العَيْشَ مُنْذُ العَامِ فَاشْتَدَّ عِضَاضُهُمْ i. e. عَيْشُهُمْ [app. meaning The people, or company of men, have grappled with life during this year, and their life has been strait, or difficult, or hard]. (S.) [See عِضَاضُ عَيْشٍ.]4 أَعْضَضْتُهُ الشَّىْءَ I made him to bite the thing; or to seize it, or take hold of it, with his teeth. (S, * O, K.) b2: It is said in a trad., مَنْ تَعَزَّى

بِعَزَآءِ الجَاهِلِيَّةِ فَأَعِضُّوهُ بِهَنِ أَبِيهِ وَلَا تَكْنُوا (S, * Mgh, Msb, K) i. e. Whoso asserteth his relationship [of son] in the manner of the people of the Time of Ignorance, meaning by saying, in crying out for aid or succour, يَا لَفُلَانٍ, (Mgh and Msb in art. عزو,) and exclaiming, أَنَا فُلَانُ بْنُ فُلَانٍ, (Msb,) say ye to him اِعْضَضْ بِأَيْرِ أَبِيكَ, (Mgh, O, L, Msb,) or اعضض أَيْرَ أَبِيكَ, (K,) [Bite thou the اير of thy father,] and use not a metonymical term for it, by saying هن for اير. (Mgh, O, L, K.) b3: أَعْضَضْتُهُ سَيْفِى (tropical:) [I made my sword to wound him;] I smote him with my sword. (S, O, K.) And أَعَضَّ السَّيْفَ بِسَاقِ البَعِيرِ (tropical:) [He made the sword to wound the thigh, or shank, of the camel]. (A, TA.) And أَعَضَّ المَحَاجِمَ قَفَاهُ (Lh, A, O *) (tropical:) He made the cupping-instruments to cleave to the back of his neck. (Lh.) A2: أَعَضَّتِ البِئْرُ (assumed tropical:) The well became such as is termed عَضُوضٌ. (S, O, K.) A3: أَعَضُّوا Their camels ate [the provender called]

عُضّ: (S, O, K:) and their camels pastured upon [the trees called] عِضّ, (S, O,) or عَضَاض. (L.) b2: And اعضّت الأَرْضُ The land abounded with عِضّ, (S, O,) or عُضّ, (K,) or both. (TA.) 6 تَعَاْضَّ see 3.

عُضٌّ The provender, or fodder, of the people of the cities or towns; such as the dregs of sesamegrain from which the oil has been expressed, and crushed date-stones: (S, O, TA:) or dough with which camels are fed: (AHn, O, K:) and [the trefoil called] قَتّ, (AHn, O, K,) i. e. فِصْفِصَة: (AHn, O:) and barley and wheat, not mixed with any other thing: (AA, O, K:) or date-stones (K, TA) crushed, (TA,) and قَتّ, (K, TA,) with which camels are fed: (TA:) and thick, or course, trees [or shrubs] remaining in the earth: (AA, O, K;) as also ↓ عَضَاضٌ: (AA, O:) or date-stones (K, TA) crushed, (TA,) and dough: (K, TA:) and barley (K, TA) with one of those two things; (TA;) but 'Alee Ibn-Hamzeh disallows its application to date-stones: (IB, TA:) or thick, large firewood, collected: (K, TA:) and dry herbage (K, TA) with which beasts are fed. (TA.) [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. صلب, conj. 2.] b2: See also the next paragraph, last sentence, in two places.

عِضٌّ [is of the measure فِعْلٌ, in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ in some cases, and in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ in other cases; but appears to have only tropical significations]. b2: (tropical:) A lock that will scarcely open; or that is not near to opening; expl. by لَا يَكَادُ يَنْفَتِحُ: (S, A, O, K:) or that will not open. (TA.) b3: (tropical:) One who keeps close to his property: (TA:) a man who improves his means of subsistence and his property, attends closely to it, and manages it well: (L:) or a manager of property: (K:) or عِضُّ مَالٍ signifies one who manages property well: (A:) or who manages property rigorously. (S, O.) b4: (tropical:) Niggardly, tenacious, or avaricious: (K, TA:) for a man's keeping close to his property generally courses him to fall into niggardliness: or such a person is likened to a lock that will not open. (TA.) b5: (tropical:) Evil in disposition; (Lth, O, K, TA;) bad, wicked or malignant. (TA.) b6: (tropical:) A strong man; (IAar, T, A, K;) as also ↓ عَضْعَضٌ. (IAar, T, TA.) It is said in the A that العَضِيضُ and العِضُّ signify الشَّدِيدُ: and in one place in the K, that العَضِيضُ signifies العَضُّ الشَّدِيدُ: and by Sgh, in his two books, [the O and TS,] as on the authority of IAar, that العَضْعَضُ signifies العَضُّ الشَّدِيدُ: but the correct reading is that which is given in the T, with which other lexicons agree. (TA.) b7: (tropical:) Having strength, or power, sufficient for a thing. (K.) You say, هُوَ عِضُّ سَفَرٍ (tropical:) He has strength, or power, sufficient for travel: (S, A, O:) he is rendered experienced, or expert, by travels: of the measure فِعْلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ. (A, TA.) And عِضُّ قِتَالٍ (tropical:) Having strength, or power, sufficient for fight. (TA.) b8: (assumed tropical:) An equal in courage, or generally; or an opponent, or adversary; syn. قِرْنٌ: (O, K:) of another; (TA;) as also ↓ عَضِيضٌ. (TA.) [See the latter, below.] b9: (assumed tropical:) Cunning, or intel-ligent, or skilful and knowing, and contentious; in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ, because such a person defames, or speaks evil of, or backbites, others: (A, TA:) (tropical:) understanding and knowing obscure, or abstruse, things: (A, TA:) (assumed tropical:) eloquent, and cunning or intelligent or skilful and knowing: (S, O, K:) and [simply] (assumed tropical:) cunning; syn. دَاهٍ; applied to a man: (S, O:) or (assumed tropical:) very cunning; syn. دَاهِيَةٌ: (K:) pl. [of mult.] غُضُوضٌ (O, K) and [of pauc.] أَعْضَاضٌ. (TA.) A2: Also i. q. شِرْسٌ, i. e. (Az, S, O) Such as are small, of thorny trees, (Az, S, O, K,) as the شُبْرُم and حَاج and شِبْرِق and لَصَف and عِتْر and the smaller قَتَاد (Az, S, O) and كَلْبَة and نُغْر [app. a mistranscription]; (Az, TA;) as also ↓ عُضٌّ, (K, TA,) accord. to AHn: (TA:) or the طَلْح and عَوْسَج and سَلَم and سَيَال and سَرْح and عُرْفُط and سَمُر and شَبَهَان and كَنَهْبَل; (K, TA;) as also ↓ عُضٌّ: (CK:) or the عوسج and سيال and عرفط and سمر and كنهبل are of the trees called عِضَاه [q. v.]. (Az, TA.) عَضَّةٌ [A bite]. (A and TA voce صَمَّمَ, q. v.) عَضَاضٌ (Ibn-Buzurj, S, A, O, K) and ↓ عَضُوضٌ (Ibn-Buzurj, S, O, K) and ↓ مَعْضُوضٌ (Ibn-Buzurj) A thing to be bitten (Ibn-Buzurj, S, A, O, K) and eaten. (S, O, K.) You say, مَا أَتَانَا مِنْ عَضَاضٍ, and ↓ عَضُوضٍ, and ↓ مَعْضُوضٍ, He brought not to us anything that we might bite. (Ibn-Buzurj.) And ↓ مَا عِنْدَنَا عَضُوضٌ and عَضَاضٌ, We have not what is to be bitten and eaten. (S, O.) And مَا ذُقْتُ عَضَاضًا I have not tasted a thing to be bitten. (A.) b2: Also عَضَاضٌ, Trees [or shrubs] that have become thick, or coarse. (K:) or plants that have become thick, or coarse, and dry, or tough, and hard. (TA.) See also عُضٌّ.

A2: See also the next paragraph, in two places.

عِضَاضٌ, (ISk, S, Msb, K,) with kesr, (S, Msb,) like كِتَابٌ, (K,) or ↓ عَضَاضٌ, (Sb, A,) like سَحَابٌ, (A,) a subst., like سَيَابٌ, not an inf. n., (Sb,) and ↓ عَضِيضٌ, (ISk, S, Msb,) The act, or fault, of biting, (S, * Msb, * K, * TA,) in a beast, (ISk, A, TA,) or a horse. (Msb, K.) You say (Yaakoob, S, TA) to the purchaser of a beast, when selling it, (TA,) بَرِئْتُ إِلَيْكَ مِنَ العِضَاضِ, and ↓ العَضِيضِ, (Yaakoob, S, O, TA,) i. e. [I am irresponsible to thee for] its biting men; (TA;) or هٰذِهِ الدَّابَّةِ ↓ مِنْ عَضَاضِ [for the biting of this beast]. (A.) And ↓ دَابَّةٌ ذَاتُ عَضِيضٍ and عِضَاضٍ

[A beast having a fault of biting]. (TA.) A2: فُلَانٌ عِضَاضُ عَيْشٍ (assumed tropical:) Such a one endures distress, or affliction, with patience. (S, O, K.) عَضُوضٌ A horse that bites; (S, O, Msb;) [i. e. that has a habit of biting; or that bites much; as the form of the word indicates;] and a camel; as also ↓ عَضَّاضٌ. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A bow having its string cleaving, or sticking, to its كَبِد [or handle]. (A, O, K. [Omitted in the TA.]) b3: (assumed tropical:) A woman narrow in the فَرْج, (O, * K, TA,) so that the ذَكَر will not penetrate into it; (TA;) as also ↓ تَعْضُوضَةٌ: (K:) the latter is thought by Az to have this signification. (O, TA.) b4: (tropical:) A well that is deep, or having its bottom distant, (S, A, O, L, K,) and narrow, (S, O,) from which one draws by means of the سَانِيَة; (S, O, L;) as though it bit the water-drawer by the distress which it occasions him; (A;) and in like manner a water; (L;) and waters; as also ↓ عَضِيضٌ: (“ Nawádir ” of AA:) or a well distressing to the water-drawer: (TA:) or a well having much water: (O, K:) pl. عُضُضٌ, (as in some copies of the S and K, and in the O and TA,) or عُضَضٌ, (as in other copies of the S and K,) and عِضَاضٌ. (K.) b5: (tropical:) Severe; grievous; distressing; afflictive: applied to time, or fortune; (S, A, O, K;) and to war. (TA.) b6: (tropical:) Unjust, or tyrannical, rule, or dominion; (A, O, K, TA;) as though the subjects thereof were bitten; (O, TA;) an intensive epithet. (TA.) b7: (tropical:) A calamity; a misfortune. (O, L, K, TA.) A2: See also عَضَاضٌ, in three places.

عَضِيضٌ: see عِضَاضٌ, in three places.

A2: (assumed tropical:) An associate; a companion: or an equal in age: syn. قَرِينٌ: (O, K:) of another. (O, TA.) See also عِضٌّ. b2: Applied to waters, i. q. عَضُوضٌ, q. v. (“ Nawádir ” of AA.) b3: In the A and K, written by mistake for عَضْعَضٌ, as mentioned above, voce عِضٌّ. (TA.) عَضَّاضٌ: see عَضُوضٌ, first signification.

عَضْعَضٌ: see عِضٌّ.

عَاضٌّ A camel that feeds upon the trees called عِضّ. (ISk, S, O.) تَعْضُوضٌ A sort of black dates, (S, O, K,) sweet, (K,) very sweet, the place of origin of which is Hejer: (S, O:) n. un. with ة: (S, O, K:) which latter is said by AHn to be a date of a colour like that of the spleen, large, succulent, melliferous, luscious: and [also a tree producing such dates; for] he mentions his having been told that the تَعْضُوضَة bears, in Hejer, a thousand pounds, of the weight of the pound of El-'Irák. (O.) تَعْضُوضَةٌ, n. un. of تَعْضُوضٌ [q. v.]. b2: See also عَضُوضٌ, third signification.

مَعَضٌّ [lit. A place in which to bite. b2: and hence,] i. q. مُسْتَمْسَكٌ (tropical:) [A place in which, or on which, to lay hold: and a thing on which to lay hold]. (S, A, O, Msb.) So in the saying مَا لَنَا فِى الأَرْضِ مَعَضٌّ (tropical:) [There is not for us, in the earth, any place in which, or on which, to lay hold; meaning, in which to settle]. (A, TA.) And in the saying مَا لَنَا فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ مَعَضٌّ (tropical:) [There is not for us, in this affair, anything on which to lay hold]. (S, O, Msb, * TA.) مُعِضٌّ One whose camels feed upon [the trees called] عِضّ (S, O) [and upon عُضّ also: see the verb]. b2: And أَرْضٌ مُعِضَّةٌ Land abounding with [the trees called] عِضّ (S) [and with عُضّ].

حِمَارٌ مُعَضَّضٌ An ass bitten much by other asses, (O, K,) and lacerated with their teeth. (O.) مَعْضُوضٌ [pass. part. n. of 1; Bitten: &c.] b2: See also عَضَاضٌ, in two places.

عك

1 عَكَّ, aor. ـِ (S, O, K,) inf. n. عَكٌّ, (K,) It (a day) was, or became, [sultry; i. e.] vehemently hot, (S, O, K,) with moisture, and without wind. (K.) b2: And عَكَّ He (a man) remained, stayed, or abode, and confined himself. (IAar, TA.) A2: عَكَّتْهُ الحُمَّى, (S, O,) [aor., app., عَكُّ,] inf. n. عَكٌّ, (TA,) The fever clave to him, and heated him, or made him vehemently hot, (S, O, TA,) so that it emaciated him, or oppressed him. (TA.) b2: and عُكَّ He (a man) was, or became, fevered. (TA.) b3: And It boiled, or estuated, or fermented, by reason of the heat. (TA.) A3: عَكَّهُ, (S, O,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. عَكٌّ, (O, TA,) He hindered, prevented, impeded, or withheld, him, from the object of his want: (S, O:) or عَكَّهُ عَنْ حَاجَتِهِ signifies thus; and he turned him back, or away, therefrom. (K.) b2: And also, i. e. عَكَّهُ, (S, O, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. عَكٌّ, (TA,) He deferred with him, delayed with him, or put him off, in the matter of his due, by promising time after time to render it to him. (S, O, K.) b3: And He asked him to repeat to him [by relating it] twice, or three times, a narration, or story, that he had related to him: (K:) or عَكَكْتُهُ الحَدِيثَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. عَكٌّ, I asked him to repeat the narration, or story, until he repeated it [by relating it] twice. (Az, S, O.) b4: And عَكَّ الكَلَامَ He interpreted, or explained, the speech, or language. (K.) It is related of IAar that, being asked respecting a thing, he said, سَوْفَ أَعُكُّهُ لَكَ I will interpret it, or explain it, to thee. (TA.) b5: [And app. He rejected the speech, or saying: for] العَكُّ signifies also the rejecting a man's speech, or saying, and not accepting it. (O.) b6: And عَكَّهُ بِالقَوْلِ He repeated to him the speech, or saying, (رَدَّهُ عَلَيْهِ,) occasioning annoyance, or molestation. (L, TA.) [This might be rendered agreeably with the next preceding explanation: but] one says, مَا زِلْتُ

أَعُكُّهُ بِالقَوْلِ حَتَّى غَضِبَ I ceased not to reiterate to him (أُرَدِّدُ عَلَيْهِ) the speech, or saying, until he was angry. (El-Jurjánee, TA.) And in like manner, عَكَّنِى بِالأَمْرِ, inf. n. عَكٌّ, He reiterated to me (رَدَّدَ عَلَىَّ) the thing, affair, case, or action, until he fatigued me: (L, TA:) or عَكَّهُ بالامر he repeated to him (رَدَّ عَلَيْهِ) the thing, &c., until he fatigued him. (K.) And عَكَّهُ بِشَرٍّ He repeated, or reiterated, evil, or wrongdoing, to him; syn. كَرَّرَهُ عَلَيْهِ. (Lh, K.) b7: [Hence, perhaps, because the act is generally reiterated,] عَكَّهُ بِالسَّوْطِ He struck him [or flogged him] with the whip. (S, O, K.) b8: And عَكَّهُ بِالحُجَّةِ, (IDrd, O, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. عَكٌّ, (IDrd, O,) He overcame him by, or with, the argument, or plea. (IDrd, O, K.) b9: And العَكُّ signifies also الدَّقُّ [The breaking, crushing, bruising, &c., of a thing]. (O.) 4 أَعَكَّتْ, said of a she-camel [when she has conceived (see عُكَّةٌ)], (S, K,) or of such as is termed عُشَرَآءُ [q. v.], (TA,) She assumed an altered colour. (S, K, TA.) يَوْمٌ عَكٌّ, and ↓ عَكِيكٌ, (S, O, K,) and ↓ ذُوعَكِيكٍ, (TA,) [A sultry day; i. e.] a day vehemently hot, (S, O, K,) with moisture, and without wind: (K:) thus يَوْمٌ عَكٌّ أَكٌّ is expl. by Th, among instances of imitative sequents; meaning, perhaps, that أَكٌّ is an imitative sequent, or that it signifies “ vehemently hot: ” (TA:) or a day vehemently hot and dense [in the air]. (El-Jurjánee, TA.) and لَيْلَةٌ عَكَّةٌ [A sultry night; i. e.] a night vehemently hot, &c. (K.) And أَرْضٌ عَكَّةٌ, and ↓ أَرْضُ عَكَّةٍ, A hot [or sultry] land; (S, O, K:) mentioned by Fr. (S, O.) And ↓ حَرٌّ عَكِيكٌ Vehement [or sultry] heat. (TA.) b2: عَكٌّ applied to a man, (S, O,) Tough, strong, (Az, S, O, TA,) and compact. (Az, TA.) A2: ائْتَزَرَ إِزْرَةَ عَكَّ وَكَّ, (S, O, K,) and ↓ إِزْرَةَ عَكَّى, (S,) or عَكَّى وَكَّى, (O, K,) He wore a waist-wrapper so that he made its two ends to hang down and drew together the rest of it [round his waist]. (S, O, K.) عَكَّةٌ (Lth, S, O, K) and ↓ عُكَّةٌ (Lth, S, K) and ↓ عِكَّةٌ and ↓ عَكَكٌ (K) and ↓ عَكِيكٌ and ↓ عِكَاكٌ, (S, O, K,) which last is also a pl., (K,) said to be pl. of عَكَّةٌ, (O,) [Sultriness; i. e.] vehemence of heat (Lth, S, O, K) in summer (Lth) [with moisture (see the first sentence of this art.) and] with stillness of the wind: (K:) it may be with the south or southerly wind (الجَنُوب) and the east or easterly wind (الصَّبَا). (TA.) Hence the saying of the rhyming-proser, إِذَا طَلَعَ السِّمَاكْ ذَهَبَ وَقَلَّ اللِّكَاكْ ↓ العِكَاكْ [When السماك rises aurorally, the sultriness goes, or rather has gone, (see السِّمَاكُ, and another ex. of العِكَاك there cited,) and the pressing, or crowding, at, or to, the water becomes little]. (O.) b2: See also عَكٌّ. b3: And see عُكَّةٌ, in two places.

عُكَّةٌ: see عَكَّةٌ. b2: Also A sand heated by the sun; (T, S, O, K;) and so ↓ عَكَّةٌ: (K:) pl. of the former عِكَاكٌ. (TA.) b3: And The access of a fever, on the occasion of the first tremour, or shivering, thereof; as also ↓ عَكَّةٌ. (K.) b4: and العُكَّةُ, (K,) or عُكَّةُ العِشَارِ, (S, O,) A colour that overspreads she-camels when they have conceived. (S, O, K,) like the كَلَف of the woman. (K.) A2: And The receptacles, (S, K,) or [correctly] one of the receptacles, (O,) for clarified butter, (S, O, K,) smaller than the قِرْبَة; (K;) said by ISk to be like the شَكْوَة, [i. e. it is a skin of a sucking kid, (see شَكْوَةٌ, and وَطْبٌ,)] in which clarified butter is put: (S, O:) or, accord. to IAth, a round receptacle of skins, for clarified butter and honey, but more particularly for clarified butter: (TA:) pl. عَكَكٌ and عِكَاكٌ. (S, O, K.) One says of a woman, سَمِنَتْ حَتَّى صَارَتْ كَالْعُكَّةِ [She became fat so that she was like the skin of clarified butter]. (El-Jurjánee, TA.) عِكَّةٌ: see عَكَّةٌ.

عَكَّى: see عَكٌّ, last sentence.

عُكَّى The سَوِيق [or meal of what has been parched, or perhaps of what has been dried in the sun,] of the مُقْل [or fruit of the Theban palm]. (O, K.) عَكَكٌ: see عَكَّةٌ.

عِكَاكٌ: see عَكَّةٌ, in two places.

عَكِيكٌ: see عَكٌّ, in three places: and also عَكَّةٌ.

عَكَوَّكٌ, inadvertently said by J [and in the O] to be of the measure فَعَلَّعٌ, whereas it is of the measure فَعَوَّلٌ, like عَطَوَّدٌ, (IB, TA,) Fat and short, with toughness: (S, O:) or short, compact and strong, (K, TA,) of middling make: (TA:) or fat: (K, TA:) or tough and strong. (TA.) b2: And A place rugged and hard: (S, O:) or [simply] hard: or soft, or plain. (K.) عَكَوَّكَانٌ Plump, fat, and short. (Ibn-'Abbád, O.) مِعَكٌّ A horse that runs a little and then requires to be struck (S, O, K, TA) with the whip. (TA.) b2: And A man contentious, disputatious, or litigious; (O, K;) difficult to be managed. (O.) إِبِلٌ مَعْكُوكَةٌ Camels confined, or kept within bounds. (S, O.)