اما

أَمَا, used to denote an interrogation, is a compound of the interrogative hemzeh and the negative مَا: (M:) it is a mere interrogative [respecting a negative, like أَلَا]; as in the saying, أَمَا تَسْتَحْيِى مِنَ اللّٰهِ [Art not thou ashamed for thyself, or of thyself, with respect to God?]. (Lth, T.) b2: [IHsh says, after explaining two other usages of أَمَا which we have yet to mention,] El-Málakee adds a third meaning of أَمَا, saying that it is a particle denoting عَرْضٌ [or the asking, or requiring, a thing in a gentle manner], like [أَلَا (q. v.) and]

لَوْلَا; and is connected peculiarly with a verb; as in أَمَا تَقُومُ [Wherefore wilt not thou do stand?], and أَمَا تَفْعَلُ [Wherefore wilt not thou do such a thing?]; which may be explained by saying that the hemzeh is used as an interrogative to make one confess, or acknowledge, a thing, as it is in أَلَمْ and أَلَا, and that مَا is a negative. (Mughnee.) b3: It is also an inceptive word, used in the manner of أَلَا: (M:) followed by أَلَا, it is syn. with أَلَا: (S:) [meaning Now: or now surely: or] both of these meaning verily, or truly; i. c. حَقًّا: and for this reason Sb allows one's saying, أَمَا إنَّه مُنْطَلقٌ and أَمَا أَنَّهُ مُنْطَلقٌ [Verily, or truly, he is going away]; with kesr after the manner of أَلَا إِنَّهُ, and with fet-h after the manner of حَقًّا أَنَّهُ: and هَمَا وَاللّٰهِ لَقَدْ كَانَ كَذَا is mentioned as meaning أَمَا وَ اللّٰهِ [&c., i. e. Verily, or truly, by God, such a thing did indeed happen]; the ه being a substitute for the hemzeh: (M:) so too حَمَى واللّٰه [or حَمَا واللّٰه]: (Sgh and K in art. حمى:) it denotes the truth of the words which follow it; as when you say, أَمَا إِنَّ زَيْدًا عَاقِلٌ, meaning Truly, or properly speaking, not tropically, Zeyd is intelligent; and أَمَّا و اللّٰه قَد ضَرَبَ زَيْدٌ عَمْرًا [Truly, &c., by God, Zeyd beat, or struck, Amr]: (S in art. امو:) [in other words,] it corroborates an oath and a sentence; as in أَمَا وَ اللّٰه لَئِنْ سْهَرْتُ لَكَ لَيْلَةً لَأَ دَعَنَّكَ نَادِمًا [Verily, or now surely, by God, if I remain awake for thee a night, then will I indeed leave thee repenting]; and أَمَا لَو عَلِمْتُ مَكَانَكَ لَأَزْعَجْتُكَ مِنْهُ [Verily, or now surely, if I had known thy place of being, then had I unsettled thee, or removed thee, from it]; and أَمَا إِنَّهُ لَرَجُلٌ كَرِيمٌ [Verily, or now surely, he is (emphatically) a generous man]: (T:) or it is an inceptive particle, used in the manner of أَلَا; [meaning now: or now surely:] (Mughnee:) or a particle used to give notice of what is about to be said: only put before a proposition [as in exs. mentioned above]: (TA:) and often occurring before an oath [as in exs. mentioned above]: and sometimes its hemzeh is changed into ه or ع, before the oath; each with the ا remaining; [written هَمَا or عَمَا;] and with the ا elided; [written هَمَ or عَمَ;] or with the ا elided, but without the substitution; [written أَمَ;] and when انَّ occurs after أَمَا, it is with kesr, as it is after أَلَا: and it also means حَقًّا [verily, or truly]: or أَحقًّا [verily? or truly?]: accord. to different opinions: and in this case, انَّ after it is with fet-h, as it is after حَقَّا: accord. to Ibn-Kharoof, this is a particle: but some say that it is a noun in the sense of حَقًّا: and others, that it consists of two words, namely, the interrogative hemzeh and مَا as a noun in the sense of شَىْءٌ; i. e. أَذالِكَ الشَّىْءُ حَقٌّ [is that thing ture?]; so that the meaning is أَحَقًّا: [if so, أَمَا أَنَّه مُنْطَلقٌ means Verily, or truly, is he going away?] and this, which is what Sb says, is the correct opinion: مَا is virtually in the accus. case, as an adverbial noun, like as حَقًّا is literally: and أَنَّ with its complement is an inchoative, of which the adverbial noun is the enunciative: but Mbr says that حَقًّا is the inf. n. of يَحِقُّ, which is suppressed, and that أنَّ with its complement is an agent. (Mughnee.) أَمَّا is a conditional and partitive and corroborative particle; and is sometimes written أَيْمَا, by the change of the first م into ى. (Mughnee, K.) b2: It is used as a conditional particle in the words of the Kur [ii.24], فأَمَّا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا فَيَعْلَمُونَ

أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا فَيَقُولُونَ مَا ذَا أَرَادَ اللّٰهُ بِهذَا مَثَلاً [For as for those who have believed, they know that it is the truth from their Lord; but as for those who have disbelieved, they say, What is it that God meaneth by this as a parable?]. (Mughnee,* K,* TA.) That it denotes a condition is shown by the necessary occurrence of ف after it; for if this ف were a conjunction, it would not be prefixed to the enunciative; and if it were redundant, it might be dispensed with; but it may not be dispensed with except in a case of necessity in poetry or in a case of an ellipsis. b3: In most cases, (Mughnee, K,) it is used as a partitive, (S, Mughnee, K,) implying the meaning of a condition; (S; [in which it is mentioned with أَمَا;]) and thus it is used in the passage of the Kur cited above; (Mughnee;) and in the following exs. [in the Kur xviii. 78 and 79 and 81], أَمَّا السَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتْ لِمَسَاكِينَ يَعْمَلُونَ فِى البَحْرِ and وَأَمَا الْغُلَامُ فَكَانَ أَبَوَاهُ مُؤْمِنِينَ and وأَمَّا الْجِدَارُ فَكَانَ لِغلَامَينِ يَتَيمَيْنِ [As for the ship, it belonged to poor men who worked on the sea . . . and as for the boy, his two parents were believers . . . and as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys]. (Mughnee, * K, * TA.) [It is a partitive also in the phrase أَمَّابَعْدُ, which see in art. بعد.] b4: Few have mentioned its use as a corroborative: (Mughnee:) it is thus used in the phrase أَمَّا زَيْدٌ فَذَاهِبٌ [Whatever be the case, or happen what will or what may, or at all events, Zeyd is going away], when you mean that Zeyd is inevitably going away, and determined, or decided, upon doing so: (Z cited in the Mughnee, and K:) therefore Sb explains it as meaning, in this case, مَهْمَا يَكُنْ مِنْ شَىْءٍ [whatever be the case, &c., as above, or, in some instances, happen what would or what might]; thereby showing it to be a corroborative, and to have a conditional meaning: (Z cited in the Mughnee: [and the same explanation of it is given, with a similar ex., in the S, in art. امو:]) the فَ, in this case, is transferred from its proper place before the inchoative, and put before the enunciative. (I 'AK p. 306.) Ks says that أَمَّا is used in commanding and forbidding and announcing: you say, أَمَّا اللّٰهَ فَاعْبُدْ [Whatever be the case, or happen what will, &c., God worship thou]: and أَمَّا الخَمْرَ فَلَا تَشْرَبْهَا [i. e. أَمَّا الخَمْرَ فَلَا تَشْرَبْهَا (as is shown in the case of a similar ex. in the Mughnee, though you may say أَمَّا الخَمْرُ فَلَا تَشْرَبْهَا, without an ellipsis, like as you say أمَّا ثَمُودُ فَهَدَيْنَاهُمْ as well as أَمَّا ثَمُودَ, in the Kur xli. 16, accord. to different readers,) Whatever be the case, &c., wine (drink not), drink not thou it]: and أَمَّا زَيْدٌ فَخَرَجَ [Whatever be the case, &c., with respect to other things, Zeyd has gone forth; or whatever be the case with respect to others, as for Zeyd, he has gone forth]: whereas إِمَّا [which see in the next paragraph] is used in expressing a condition and in expressing doubt and in giving option and in taking option. (T.) b5: [IHsh says that in his opinion,] in the phrase أَمَّا العَبِيدَ فَذُو عَبِيدٍ, thus heard, with العبيد in the accus. case, the meaning is, مَهَما ذَكَرْتَ [&c., i. e. Whenever thou mentionest the slaves, he is a possessor of slaves: but I would rather say that the meaning is, أَمَّا ذِكْرُكَ العَبِيدَ, &c., i. e. as for thy mentioning the slaves, &c.]: and so in similar phrases which have been heard. (Mughnee.) A2: Distinct from the foregoing is أَمَّا in the saying in the Kur [xxvii. 86], أَمَّا ذاكُنْتُمْ تَعمَلُونَ [Or rather, what is it that ye were doing?]: for here it is a compound of the unconnected أَمْ and the interrogative مَا (Mughnee.) A3: So too in the saying of the poet, أَبَا خُرَاشَةَ أَمَّا أَنْتَ ذَا نَسفَرٍ

فَإنَّ قُوْمِىَ لَمْ تَأكُلْهُمُ الضَّبُعُ [O Aboo-Khurásheh, because thou wast possessor of a number of men dost thou boast? Verily, my people, the year of dearth, or of sterility, hath not consumed them]: for here it is a compound of the أَنْ termed مَصُدَرِيَّة [which combines with a verb following it to form an equivalent to an inf. n.] and the redundant مَا: أَمَّا أَنْتَ is for لِأَنْ كُنْتَ; the preposition and the verb are suppressed for the sake of abridgment, so that the pronoun [تَ in كُنْتَ] becomes separate; and مَا is substituted for the verb [thus deprived of its affixed pronoun], and the ن [of ان] is incorporated into the م [of ما]. (Mughnee.) [See another reading of this verse voce إِمَّا; and there also, immediately after, another ex. (accord. to the Mughnee) of أَمَّا used in the manner explained above. See also أَنْ as a conditional particle, like إِنْ.]

A4: Also i. q. إِمَّا, q. v. (Mughnee, K.) إِمَّا is sometimes written أَمَّا, and sometimes its first م is changed into ى, [forming أَيْمَا or إِيْمَا or both, as will be shown below,] (Mughnee, [in my copy of which it is written أَيْمَا, and so in some copies of the K,] and K, [in some copies of which it is written إيمَا,]) and it is held by Sb to be a compound of إِنْ and مَا, (Mughnee,) or as denoting the complement of a condition it is a compound of إِنْ and مَا. (M, K.) b2: It denotes doubt; (Ks, T, Mughnee, K;) as in مَا أَدْرِى مَنْ قَامَ إِمَّا زَيْدٌوإِمَّا عَمْرٌو [I know not who stood: either Zeyd or 'Amr]: (Ks, T:) and جَآءَنِى إِمَّا زَيْدٌ وَإِمَّا عَمْرٌو [There came to me either Zeyd or 'Amr], said when one knows not which of them came. (Mughnee, K.) b3: It also denotes vagueness of meaning; as in [the Kur ix. 107,] إِمَّا يُعَذِّبُهُم وأمَّا يَتُوبُ عَلَيْهِمْ [Either He will punish them or He will turn unto them with forgiveness]. (Mughnee, K.) b4: It also denotes giving option; as in [the Kur xviii. 85,] إِمَّا أَن تُعَذِّبَ وإِمَّا أَنْ تَتَّخِذَ فِيِهِمْ حُسْناً [Either do thou punish, or do thou what is good to them]. (Mughnee, K.) b5: It also denotes the making a thing allowable; as in تَعَلَّمْ إِمَّا فِقْهًا وإِمَّا نَحْوًا [Learn thou either low or syntax; (an ex. given in the T, on the authority of Ks, as an instance of the usage of إِمَّا to denote giving option;)] but its use with this intent is disputed by some, (Mughnee, K,) while they assert it of أَوْ. (Mughnee.) b6: It is also used as a partitive; as in [the Kur lxxvi. 3,] إمَّا شَاكِراً و إمَّا كَــفُورًا [Either, or whether, being thankful or being unthankful]; (Mughnee, K;) the two epithets being here in the accus. case as denotatives of state: or, accord. to the Koofees, إمَّا may be here [a compound of] the conditional إِنْ and the redundant مَا; كَانَ, accord. to Ibn-EshShejeree, being understood after it: (Mughnee:) and Fr says that the meaning is, إِنْ شَكَرَ وَإِنْ كَفَرَ [if he be thankful and if he be unthankful]. (T.) b7: It also denotes taking option; as in the saying, لِى دَارٌ بِالكُوفَةِ فَأنَا خَارِجٌ إلَيْهَا فَإمَّا أَنْ أَسْكُنَهَا وإِمَّا أَنْ

أَبِيعَهَا [I have a house in El-Koofeh, and I am going forth to it, and either I will inhabit it or I will sell it: but this is similar to the usage first mentioned above]. (Ks, T.) b8: It is a conjunction, (S in art. امو, and Mughnee,) accord. to most authorities, i. e., the second إِمَّا in the like of the saying, جَاءَنِى إمَّا زَيْدٌ وإِمَّا عَمْرٌو [mentioned above]; (Mughnee;) used in the manner of أَوْ in all its cases except this one, that in the use of او you begin with assurance, and then doubt comes upon you; whereas you begin with إِمَّا in doubt, and must repeat it; as in the saying last mentioned: (S: [and the like is said in the Mughnee, after the explanations of the meanings:]) but some assert that it is like the first إِمَّا, not a conjunction; because it is generally preceded by the conjunction و: and some assert that إِمَّا conjoins the noun with the noun, and the و conjoins إِمَّا with إِمَّا; but the conjoining of a particle with a particle is strange. (Mughnee.) b9: Sometimes the و is suppressed; as in the following verse, (Mughnee,) of El-Ahwas; (S;) يَا لَيْتَمَا أُمُّنِا شَالَتْ نَعَامَتُهَا

أَيْمَا إِلَى جَنَّةٍ أَيْمَا إِلَى نَارِ [O, would that our mother took her departure, either to Paradise or Hell-fire!]; (S,* Mughnee, K;) cited by Ks, with ايما for إِمَّا: (T:) and sometimes it is with kesr [i. e. إِيمَا]: (S:) IB says that it is correctly إِمَّا, with kesr; asserting the original to be إِمَّا, with kesr, only. (TA.) b10: And sometimes the former مَا is dispensed with; as in the following verse, (Mughnee,) which shows also that مَا is sometimes suppressed; سَقَتْهُ ارَّوَاعِدُ مِنْ صَيِّفٍ

وَإِنْ مِنْ خَرِيفٍ فَلَنْ يَعْدَمَا [The thundering clouds of summer-rain watered him, or of autumn-rain; so he will not want sufficient drink]: i. e. إِمَّا مِنْ صَيِّفٍ وَإِمَّا مِنْ خَرِيفٍ. (Mughnee, K.) Mbr and As say that إِنْ is here conditional, and that the ف is its complement: but this assertion is of no weight; for the object is the description of a mountain-goat as having sufficient drink in every case: AO says that إِنْ in this verse is redundant. (Mughnee.) b11: Sometimes, also, one does not require to mention the second إِمَّا, by mentioning what supplies its place; as in the saying, إِمَّا أَنْ تَتَكَلَّمَ بِخَيْرٍ

وَإِلَّا فاسْكُتْ [Either do thou speak what is good or else be silent]. (Mughnee.) [See art. الا, near its end.]

A2: Distinct from the foregoing is إِمَّا in the saying in the Kur [xix. 26], فَإِمَّأِتَريِنَّ مِنَ الْبَشَرِ أَحَدًاِ [And if thou see, of mankind, any one]: for this is [a compound of] the conditional إِن and the redundant مَا. (S * in art. امو, and Mughnee.) [In like manner,] you say, in expressing a condition, إِمَّا تَشْتِمَنَّ زْيدًا فَإِنَّهُ يَحْلُمُ عَنْكَ [If thou revile Zeyd, he will treat thee with forbearance]. (Ks, T.) And إِمَّا تَأْتِنِي أُكِْرِمْكَ [If thou come to me, I will treat thee with honour]. (S.) b2: In the following saying, إِمَّا أَنْتَ مُنْطَلِقًا انْطَلَقْتُ [If thou be going away, I go away], the مَا is not that which restrains the particle to which it is subjoined from governing, but is a substitute for a verb; (K and TA in art. مَا;) as though the speaker said, إِذَا صِرْتَ مُنْطَلِقًا [or rather إِنْ صِرْتَ]. (TA in that art.) And hence the saying of the poet, [of which a reading different from that here following has been given voce أَمَّا,] أَبَا خُرَاشَةَ إِمَّا أَنْتَ ذَا نَسفَرٍ

فَإنَّ قَوْمِىَ لَمْ تَإْكُلْهُمُ الضَّبُغُ [O Aboo-Khurásheh, if thou be possessor of a number of men, verily, my people, the year of dearth, or of sterility, hath not consumed them]; as though he said, إِنْ كُنْتُ ذَا نَفَرٍ. (TA in that art.) [But IHsh states the case differently; saying,] An instance of أَمَّا أَنْتَ مُنطَلِقًا انْطَلَقْتُ not used to restrain from governing, but as a substitute for a verb, occurs in the saying, أَمَّا أَنْتَ مُنطَلِقًا اِنْطَلَقْتُ [ Because thou wast going away, I went away]; originally, اِنْطَلَقْتُ لِأَنْ كُنْتَ مُنطَلِقاً: [for an explanation of which, see what is said of أَمَّا أَنْتَ in a reading of the verse commencing with أَبَا خُرَاشَة voce أَمَّا:] but accord. to El-Fárisee and IJ, the government belongs to مَا; not to كَانَ [or كُنْتَ]. (Mughnee in art. مَا.) b3: So too in the saying, اِفْعَلْ هذَا

إِمَّالَا, meaning إِنْ كُنْتَ لَاتَفْعَلُ غَيْرَهُ [i. e. Do thou this if thou wilt not do another thing; or do thou this at least]; (Mughnee and K, each in art. مَا;) indicating a person's refusal to do [fully] that which he is ordered to do: (TA in that art.:) or إِمَّالَا فَافْعَلْ كَذَا, meaning if thou wilt not do that, then do thou this; the three particles [إِنْ and مَا and لَا] being made as one word: so says Lth: (T:) [J says,] إِمَّالَا فَافْعَلْ كَذَا is pronounced with imáleh, [i. e. “ immá-lè,”] and is originally إِن لَا with مَا as a connective; and the meaning is, if that thing will not be, then do thou thus: (S in art. لَا:) [but] AHát [ disallows this pronunciation, and] says, sometimes the vulgar, in the place of اِفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ إِمَّالَا, say, اِفْعَلْ ذٰلِكَ بَارِى

[Do thou that at least]; but this is Persian, and is rejected as wrong: and they say also, أُمَّالَىْ, with damm to the ا [and with imáleh in the case of the final vowel, and thus it is vulgarly pronounced in the present day]; but this too is wrong; for it is correctly إِمَّالَا, [with kesr, and] not pronounced with imáleh, for particles [in general] are not thus pronounced: (T:) and the vulgar also convert the hemzeh into ه with damm [saying هُمَّالَىْ]. (TA in art. مَا.) [Fei says,] لَا is a substitute for the verb in the saying, إِمَّالَا فَافْعَلْ هٰذَا, the meaning being If thou do not that, then [at least] do thou this: the origin thereof is this; that certain things are incumbent on a man to do, and he is required to do them, but refuses; and then one is content with his doing some, or a part, of them, and says to him thus: i. e., if thou wilt not do all, then do thou this: then the verb is suppressed, on account of the frequency of the usage of the phrase, and مَا is added to give force to the meaning: and some say that it is for this reason that لَا is here pronounced with imáleh; because it serves for the verb; like as بَلَى is, and the vocative يَا: but it is said that it is correctly pronounced without imáleh; because particles [in general] are not pronounced therewith; as Az says. (Msb in art. لَا.) [El-Hareeree says that]

إِمَّالَا is properly [a compound of] three particles, which are إِنْ and مَا and لَا, made as one word, and the ا at the end thereof is like the ا of حُبَارَى

[in which it is written ى, agreeably with rule]; wherefore it is pronounced with imáleh, like as is the ا of this latter word. (Durrat el-Ghowwás, in De Sacy's Anthol. Gr. Ar. p. 57 of the Arabic text.) In the Lubáb it is said that لَا is used as a negative of the future, as in لا تَفْعَلْ; and the verb [in إِمَّالَا] is suppressed; so it [لا] serves as a substitute in the saying, اِفْعَلْ هٰذَا إِمَّالَا; therefore they pronounce its ا with imáleh: and IAth says that the Arabs sometimes pronounced لَا with a slight imáleh; and the vulgar make the imáleh thereof full, so that its ا becomes ى; but this is wrong. (TA.) You say also, خُذْ هٰذَا إِمَّالَا, meaning Take thou this if thou take not that. (T.) It is related that the Prophet saw a runaway camel, and said, “To whom belongeth this camel? ”

when, lo, some young men of the Ansár said, “ We have drawn water upon him during twenty years, and yet he has in him fat; so we desired to slaughter him; but he escaped from us. ” He said, “Will ye sell him? ” They answered, “No: but he is thine. ” And he said, إِمَّالَا فأَحْسِنُوا إِلَيْهِ حَتَّى يأْتِيَهُ أَجَلُهُ, meaning If ye will not sell him, act well to him until his term of life come to him. (T.)

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Q. 1 عَصْفَرَ He dyed a garment, or piece of cloth, with عُصْفُر. (S, O, Msb, K.) Q. 2 تَعَصْفَرَ It (a garment, or piece of cloth,) became dyed with عُصْفُر. (S, O, K.) عُصْفُرٌ [Safflower, or bastard saffron; i. e., cnicus, or carthamus tinctorius;] a certain dye, (S, O,) or plant, (Msb, K,) well known, (O, Msb,) with which one dyes, (M,) the first juice (سُلَافَة) of which is called جِرْيَال, (TA,) and one of the properties of which is that it causes tough meat to become thoroughly cooked, so as to fall off from the bone, (K, * TA,) when somewhat thereof is thrown into it: (TA:) its seed is called قُرْطُمٌ: (K:) there are two kinds of it; one of the cultivated land, and one of the desert; and both grow in the country of the Arabs: (M, TA:) it is an Arabicized word. (Az, TA.) عُصْفُورٌ (S, O, Msb, K, &c.) and عَصْفُورٌ, (Ibn-Rasheek, MF,) but the latter is not an approved form, because there is no chaste word of the measure فَعْلُولٌ, (MF, TA,) [The sparrow;] a certain bird, (S, O, K,) well known; (Msb:) accord. to AHát, the same that is called the نَقَّار; the male black in the head and neck, the rest of it inclining to ash-colour, with a redness in the wings; the female inclining to yellowness and whiteness: (O:) the word is masc.: (TA:) fem. with ة: (S, O, K:) pl. عَصَافِيرُ. (Msb.) Accord. to Hamzeh, it is so called because it was disobedient, and fled, عَصَى وَفَرَّ. (MF, TA.) [This, I believe, is said to have been the case when the beasts and birds &c. were summoned before Adam, to be named by him. See the Kur ii. 29-31.] b2: [It is also applied to Any passerine bird. and hence,] عُصْفُورُ الجَنَّةِ [The passerine bird of Paradise; meaning] the swallow; syn. الخُطَّافُ. (ISd in TA art. خطف, and IB in TA art. وط.) b3: [Also, sometimes, Any small bird.] b4: طَارَتْ عَصَافِيرُ رَأْسِهِ [lit., The sparrows of his head flew;] is a prov., meaning (tropical:) he became frightened; as though there were sparrows upon his head when he was still, and they flew away when he was frightened: (Meyd:) [or he became light, or inconstant: or he became angry: like طَارَ طَائِرُهُ: (see طَائِرٌ:)] or he became aged. (TA.) b5: نَقَّتْ عَصَافِيرُ بَطْنِهِ [lit. The sparrows of his belly cried], (K,) like نَقَّتْ ضَفَادِعُ بِطْنِهِ, alluding to the intestines, is also a prov., (TA,) meaning (tropical:) he was, or became, hungry. (K, TA.) In like manner also one says, لَا تَأْكُلْ حَتَّى تَطِيرَ عَصَافِيرُ بَطْنِكَ, meaning (tropical:) Eat thou not until thou be hungry. (TA.) A2: أَصَافِيرُ المُنْذِرِ is an appellation of (assumed tropical:) Certain excellent camels, that belonged to kings: (S, O, K:) or certain excellent camels that belonged to En-Noamán Ibn-El-Mundhir were called أَصَافِيرُ النُّعْمَانِ. (T, TA.) A3: العُصْفُورُ also signifies The male locust. (O, K.) A4: And The chief, or lord. (IAar, O, K.) b2: And The king. (K.) A5: Also A portion, (S, O,) or small portion, (K,) of the brain, (S, O, K,) beneath the فَرْخ of the brain, (TA,) as though separated therefrom: (S, O, TA:) between the two is a pellicle. (S, O, K.) b2: and A certain vein in the heart. (IF, O.) b3: and A prominent bone in the temple of the horse, (S, O, K,) on the right and on the left; both being called عُصْــفُورَانِ. (S, O.) b4: And The place whence grows the forelock [app. of the horse]. (M, K.) b5: And A narrow blaze extending downwards from the blaze on the forehead of the horse, not reaching to the muzzle. (O, K.) b6: The عَصَافِير of a camel's hump see expl. voce عُرْصُوفٌ.

A6: and عُصْفُورٌ signifies also A piece of wood in the [kind of camel-vehicle called] هَوْدَج, uniting the extremities of certain [other] pieces of wood therein; [perhaps what unites the outer extremities of two long pieces of wood which project horizontally from the lower part of the هودج, from the two extremities of either side;] (K;) having the form of the [kind of saddle called] إِكَاف: (L:) or the pieces of wood which are in the [kind of camel's saddle called] رَحْل, by which the heads of the [curved pieces of wood called the] أَحْنَآء are fastened [together]: (K:) and the wood by which are fastened the heads of the [kind of saddle called] قَتَب: (K:) the pl. is عَصَافِيرُ: or the عصافير of the قتب are its عَرَاصِيف, from which عصافير is formed by transposition; and they are four pins of wood which are put between [or rather which unite or conjoin] the heads of the احنآء of the قتب; in each حِنْو are two of these pins, fastened with sinews or with camel's skin; and in it [or appertaining to the same part] are the ظَلِفَات: (S, O:) or the nails which unite the head of the قتب: (IDrd:) or the عُصْفُور of the [kind of saddle called] إِكَاف is its عُرْصُوف, from which latter word the former is formed by transposition; and it is a piece of wood fastened between [or rather uniting or conjoining] the anterior حِنْوَانِ. (S, O.) In a trad. it is said that it it is unlawful to cut or shake off aught from the trees of El-Medeeneh, except for the عصفور of a قتب, or to supply a sheave of a pulley, or for the handle of an iron implement. (S.) b2: Also A nail of a ship. (O, K.)

جب
الجَبُّ: الاسْتئْصَالُ في القَطْع. والرَّجُلُ مَجْبُوبٌ.
والجَبَبُ: في السَّنَام، بَعِيْرٌ أحَبُّ: لا سَنَامَ له.
وامْرَأةٌ جَبّاءُ: صَغِيرةُ الثَّدْيَيْن.
والأجَبُّ: من أسماء الفَرْج كالأجَمِّ.
والجَبُوْبُ: وَجْهُ الأرض.
والجُبَابُ: كَهَيْئة الزُّبْدِ من ألْبَانِ الإِبل.
ويُقال: اسْتَجَبَّ سِقَاؤكَ: أي غَلُظَ وضَرِيَ. وما أشَدَّ ما يُجَبِّبُ سِقَاؤك. ومَرَنَ على ذاكَ واسْتَجَبَّ: أي أكْنَبَ.
والجُبَّة: معروفةٌ، والجِبَابُ والجُبَبُ جَمْعٌ.
وجُبَّةُ السِّنَانِ والزُّجِّ وما أشْبَهَهُما: ما يَدْخُل فيه الزُّجُّ. والبَيَاضُ تَطَأُ فيه الدابَّةُ بحافِرِها حتّى تَبْلُغَ الأشاعِرَ، والنَّعْتُ مُجَبَّبٌ. وخِرْقَةٌ تَلْبَسُها المَرْأةُ وتَخِيْطُ طَرَفَها فَتُغَطِّي بها رَأْسَها وفيها عَيْنَانِ كعَيْنَي البُرْقُع.
وجُبَّةُ العَيْن: ما واراها، وقيل: غارُها.
والجُبُّ: البِئْرُ غيرُ البَعِيدةِ، والجميع الأجْبَابُ والجِبَابُ والجِبَبَةُ. وقال الساجعُ: تَسِيْرُوْنَ أَغْبَابَاَ أغْبَابا، وتَرِدُوْنَ مِيَاهاً جِبَابا وتَلْقَوْنَ عليها ضِرَابا فتكون غَنِيْمَتُكم تُرَابا.
والجِبَابُ: الرَّكايا تُحْفَرُ لغَرْس الكُرُوْم كما تُحْفَرُ للفَسِيْلَةِ، الواحِدُ جبٌّ.
والجُبْجُبَةُ: تُتَخَذُ من أدَم كهَيْئة اللُّقْنِ يُسْقى منها البَعِيرُ ويُنْقَعُ فيها الهَبِيْدُ. وهو - أيضَاً -: شَيْءٌ كهَيْئة الجُنْبُذَةِ تُبْنى في البَسَاتين.
والجَبَاجِبُ: الزُّبُلُ من الجُلُود.
والجُبْجُبَةُ: كِرْشٌ يُجْعَلُ فيه اللَّحْمُ المُقطَّعُ ثمَّ يُطْبَخُ أو يُشْوى.
والجُبَاجِبُ: العَظِيمُ الضَّخْمُ.
وإبِلٌ جَبَاجِبُ الأجْوَافِ: أي واسِعَتُها، الواحدة جَبْجَبَةٌ، وكذلك المُجَبْجَبُ: الرَّحْبُ الفُرُوج.
والجَبْجَبَةُ من الأرض: الغَلِيْظَةُ ذاتُ الحِجَارة، والجميع الجَبَاجبُ. ومَوْضِعٌ بمِنىً يُسَمّى: جَبَاجِبَ لأنَّ الكُرُوْشَ تُلْقى فيه أيّامَ الحَجِّ. وجُبْجُبَةُ الضَّبِّ: سُرَّتُه وما اسْتَدَارَ من بَطْنِه. وجُبْجُبَةٌ من شَحْم: لِمَا جُمِعَ ودُوِّرَ.
وهم جُبْجُبَةُ القَوْم: بمعنى جُمْجُمَتِهم.
وجَبَاجِبُ الماءِ: مَحَاضِرُه ومَنَازِلُه، الواحدة جَبْجَبَةٌ وجُبْجُبَةٌ.
والجَبْجَبَةُ من الماء: القَرِيْبُ العُمْق.
والجَبْجَابُ: الماءُ الكثيرُ، وكذلك الجُبَاجِبُ.
والتَّجْبِيْبُ: الهَرَبُ عند القِتالِ والهَزِيْمَةُ.
ورَكِبَ فلان المَجَبَّةَ: أي الطَّرِيقَ، ويَجُوزُ أنْ يكونَ مَأخُوْذاً من اسْتِجْبَابِ الشَّيْءِ ومُرُوْنِه على العَمَل.
وجَبَّبَ الرجُلُ: امْتَلأ فَزَعاً.
وشَرِبَتِ الإِبلُ حتّى جَبّبَتْ: أي امْتَلأَتْ رِيّاً.
والمُجَابَّةُ: أنْ يَصْنَعَ القَوْمُ طَعاماً فَيَصْنَعَ غيرُهم مِثْلَه.
والتَّجَابُّ - أيضاً -: أنْ يَتَناكَحَ الرجُلانِ أُخْتَيْهما تكونُ أُخْتُ كل واحدٍ منهما تَحْتَ صاحِبِه. ويكونُ التَّجَابُّ في التَّلاحي والتَشاتُم. وأصْلُ ذلك كلَّه من المُغَالَبَةِ، يُقال: جَبَّ فلانٌ فلاناً: أي غَلَبَه. ومن الجَبِّ الذي هو الفَضْلُ قَوْلُهم: اجْتَمَعَ النَسَاءُ فَجَئتْهُنَّ فلانةُ تَجُبُّهُنَّ.
وجَبَّ اللِّهَازُ: تَنَحّى عن مَوْضِعِه وهو رُقْعَةٌ تُوضَعُ في قَبطِّ البَكْرَةِ يُضَيَّقُ بها ما اتَّسَعَ من خَرْقِها.
والجَبَاجِبُ: إِهَالَةٌ تُذَابُ.

جب

1 جَبَّهُ, aor. ـُ (Msb, TA,) inf. n. جَبٌّ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and جِبَابٌ, (A, K, MF,) He cut it; or cut it off; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) as also ↓ اجتبَهُ. (K, * TA.) b2: جَبَّ خُصَاهُ, inf. n. جَبٌّ and جِبَابٌ, He cut off entirely, or extirpated, his testicles; (TA;) [as also ↓ اِجْتَبَّهَا; for] جَبٌّ (A, K) and جِبَابٌ and اِجْتِبَابٌ (TA) signify the cutting off entirely, or extirpating, (A, K, TA,) of the testicle, (K, TA,) or of the genitals: (A:) [or] جِبَابٌ signifies [or signifies also, as inf. n. of جُبَّ,] the having the testicles, (S, TA,) or genitals, (Msb,) entirely cut off. (S, * Msb, TA.) You say also, جَبَبْتُهُ, meaning I cut off entirely, or extirpated, his genitals; (Msb;) [or his testicles; or his penis; as is implied in the TA:] and جُبَّ, inf. n. جَبٌّ, (Mgh, TA,) [or جِبَابٌ,] he had his penis and his testicles [or either of these] cut off entirely, or extirpated. (Mgh, TA. *) b3: جَبَّ السَّنَامَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. جَبٌّ; and ↓ اجتبّهُ; He cut off the hump of the camel: accord. to Lth, جَبٌّ signifies the cutting off entirely, or extirpating, of the hump. (TA.) A2: جَبَّ النَّخْلَ, (As, S, Msb, TA,) [aor. ـُ inf. n. جَبٌّ, (A, K,) or جِبَابٌ, (S, TA,) or جَبَابٌ, (A,) or both the second and last, (Msb, [the first is disallowed by MF,]) He fecundated the palmtrees [with the pollen of the male tree]. (As, S, A, Msb, TA.) You say, جَآءَ زَمَنُ الجِبَابِ, (S,) or الجَبَابِ, with fet-h, (A,) or both, (Msb,) [The time of the fecundating of the palm-trees came].

A3: جَبَّ القَوْمَ, (S,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. جَبٌّ, (K,) He surpassed, or overcome, the people, or company of men; (S, K, * TA;) accord. to some, in grounds of pretension to respect or honour, or in beauty, and in any or every manner. (TA.) And جَبَّتِ النِّسَآءَ She surpassed the [other] women in her beauty. (TA.) The saying جَبَّتْ نِسَآءَ العَالَمِينَ بِالسَّبَبْ [She overcame the women of the whole world by means of the string] relates to a woman who measured round her hinder parts with a string, and then threw it to the women of the tribe, that they might do with it the like; but they found it to be much exceeding their measures. (TA.) See 3, in three places.

A4: See also 2.2 تَجْبِيبٌ The reaching of the [whiteness termed] تَحْجِيل, in a horse, to the knee and the hock: (S:) or the rising of the whiteness to [the extent of] what is termed الجَبَبُ. (K.) Yousay of a horse, فِيهِ تَجْبِيبٌ [In him is a rising of the تحجيل to the knee and the hock]: and in this case, the horse is said to be مُجَبَّبٌ: and the subst. is ↓ جَبَبٌ [meaning a whiteness of the legs rising to the knee and the hock]. (S.) [See مُجَبَّبٌ.]

A2: The act of shrinking [from a thing]; or the being averse [from it]; or the act of withdrawing; (S, K, TA;) outwardly or inwardly. (TA.) You say of a man, جَبَّبَ فَذَهَبَ [He shrank, or was averse, or withdrew, and went away]. (S.) And جَيَّبَ النَّاسُ عَنْ طَاعَةِ اللّٰهِ The people forsook, or relinquished, the obeying of God. (TA from a trad.) b2: The act of fleeing. (K.) You say of a man, جبَب He fled. (TA.) El-Hotei-ah says, وَنَحْنُ إِذَا جَبَّبْتُمُ عَنْ نِسَائِكُمْ كَمَا جَبَّبَتْ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَوْلَادِهَا الحُمُرْ [And we, when ye flee from your women, like as the wild asses have fled from the presence of their young ones]. (TA.) And ↓ جَبَّ, said of a man, [if not a mistranscription for جَبَّبَ,] signifies He went quickly, fleeing from a thing. (TA.) A3: The act of satisfying with water (K, TA) the earth, (الجَبُوب, TA,) or cattle. (K, TA.) 3 جِبَاب The act of vying, or contending for superiority, in goodliness, or beauty, &c., (K,) as, for instance, in grounds of pretension to respect or honour, and in lineage: (TA:) and مُجَابَّةٌ the vying, or contending for superiority, in goodliness, or beauty, (K,) &c., (TA,) and in food: (K:) but [SM says,] I know not whence this addition, respecting food, is derived. (TA. [See, however, what follows, from the A.]) You say, ↓ جَابَّنِى فَجَبَبْتُهُ He vied with me, or contended with me for superiority, and I overcame him. (TA.) And جَابَّتِ المَرْأَةُ صَاحِبَتَهَا حُسْنًا ↓ فَجَبَّتْهَا The woman vied, or contended for superiority, with her fellow, and surpassed her in beauty. (TA.) And ↓ جَابَّهُ فِى القِرَى فَجَبَّهُ He vied with him, or contended with him for superiority, in the entertainment of guests, and he overcame him therein. (A.) 4 اجبّ It (camels' milk) had, or produced, what is termed جُبَاب [q. v.]. (K.) 5 تجبّب He clad himself with a جُبَّة [q. v.]. (MA.) [And so, app., ↓ اجتبّ, explained by Golius, on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof, as signifying He put on a vest, or tunic.]8 إِجْتَبَ3َ see 1, in three places: A2: and see also 5.

R. Q. 1 جَبْجَبَ He dealt, or trafficked, in جَبَاجِب [pl. of جُبْجُبَةٌ, q. v.]. (TA.) R. Q. 2 تَجَبْجَبَ i. q. اِتَّشَقَ; (S, TA;) i. e. He prepared what is called جُبْجُبَة: (TA:) or he put what is called خَلْع into a جُبْجُبَة [q. v.]. (Az, TA.) جُبٌّ A well: (A, K:) or a well not cased with stone or the like: (S, A, Msb, K:) or a well containing much water: or a deep well: (A, K:) or of some other description: (A:) or a well in a good situation with respect to pasture: or one that people have found; not one that they have dug: (K:) or a well that is not deep: (Lth, TA:) or a well that is wide, or ample: (ElKilábeeyeh, TA:) or a well that is cut through rock, or smooth rock, or stones, or smooth stones, or hard and smooth and large stones: (Aboo-Habeeb, TA:) of the masc. gender; (Msb, TA;) [not fem. like بِئْرٌ;] or masc. and fem.: (Fr, Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْبَابٌ (Msb, K.) and [of mult.] جِبَابٌ and جِبَبَةٌ. (S, Msb, K.) b2: A well that is dug wherein a grape — vine is planted; like as one is dug for the shoot of a palm — tree: pl. جِبَابٌ. (ISh, TA.) b3: The inside of a well, from its bottom to its top, whether cased with stone or the like or not. (Sh, TA.) b4: The جُرْن of a well [app. meaning A hollowed stone, or stone basin, for water, placed at the mouth of a well: or, perhaps, a hollowed stone placed over the mouth; for many a well has such a stone, forming a kind of parapet]. (Zeyd Ibn-Kuthweh, TA.) A2: [A kind of leathern bag;] a مَزَادَة of which one part is sewed to another, (K, TA,) wherein they used to prepare the beverage termed نَبِيذ, until, by use, it acquired strength for that purpose; mentioned in a trad., forbidding the use of it; and also called ↓ مَجْبُوبَةٌ. (TA.) A3: The spathe, or envelope, of the spadix, or flowers, of the palmtree; also called جُفٌّ: the former word was unknown to A'Obeyd: both occur, accord. to different readings, in a trad., where it is said that a charm contrived to bewitch Mohammad was put into the جُبّ, or جُفّ, of a طَلْعَة: accord. to Sh, (TA,) it means the inside of a طَلْعَة [which latter here app. signifies, as it does in some other instances, the spathe, not the spadix, of a palmtree]; (K, TA;) in like manner as the inside of a well, from its bottom to its top, is called جُبّ: the pl. is جِبَابٌ. (TA.) Hence the well-known prov., جِبَابٌ فَلَا تَعَنَّ أَبْرًا [They are merely envelopes of the flowers of palm-trees; therefore weary not thyself to effect fecundation]; applied to a man in whom is little or no good; meaning he is like the spathes of the palm-tree in which are no flowers; therefore weary not thyself by attempting to make him good; لَا تَعَنَّ being for لَا تَتَعَنَّ. (MF.) جُبَّةٌ A well-known garment [or coat], (Msb, K, TA,) of the kind of those called مُقَطَّعَات: (TA:) accord. to ' Iyád, a garment cut out and sewed: accord. to Ibn-Hajar and others, a double garment quilted with cotton; or, sometimes, if of wool, a single garment, not quilted with anything: (MF:) [most probably not so much resembling the modern garment more generally known by the same name (for a description and representation of which see my “ Modern Egyptians,” ch. i.,) as a kind of جُبَّة still worn in Northern Africa, described in this Lexicon voce مِدْرَعَةٌ: accord. to Golius, “tunica ex panno gossipino, cui pallium seu toga imponitur, cum subductitio panno et intercedente gossipio punctim consuta: Italis consona voce giuppa: si ita cum gossipio consuta non sit, دُرَّاعَةٌ tunica illa gossipina dicitur: ”] pl. جُبَبٌ (Msb, K) and جِبَابٌ. (S, K.) b2: I. q. دِرْعٌ [A coat of mail; or any coat of defence]: (K:) pl. جُبَبٌ. (TA.) Er-Rá'ee says, لَنَا جُبَبٌ وَأَرْمَاحٌ طِوَالٌ بِهِنَّ نُمَارِسُ الحَرْبَ الشَّطُونَا

[We have coats of mail, or of defence, and long spears: with them we ply distant war]. (TA.) A2: The part of a spear-head into which the shaft enters: (S, K:) and the ثَعْلَب is the part of the spear-shaft that enters into the head. (TA.) b2: [In the TA, جُبَّةُ الرُّمْحِ is also explained as meaning ما دخل من السنان فيه The part of the spearhead that enters into the shaft: but it seems that من has been inserted here by a mistake of the copyist; and that the true meaning intended is the part of the spear-shaft into which the head enters; though in general the shaft enters into the head.] b3: The part in which is the مُشَاشَة [q. v.] of a horn. (Zeyd Ibn-Kuthweh, TA.) b4: The حِجَاج [or bone that surrounds the cavity (see art. حج)] of the eye. (K.) b5: The contents (حَشْو) of the solid hoof: or the horny box (قَرْن) of the solid hoof: or the joint between the ساق [which seems to mean here, as it does in many other instances, the hind shank,] and the thigh: (K:) or the shank-joint of a horse or the like (مَوْصِلُ الوَظِيفِ [commonly applied, as in the S and K voce رُسْغ, to the upper extremity of the pastern, i. e. the fetlock-joint, which seems to be the meaning intended in this instance,]) in the ذِرَاع [which here app. means the fore leg, not the arm]: or, accord. to As, the part where the وظيف [or shank] is set into the hoof: (S:) or the part of the رسغ [or pastern], of a horse, where the وظيف [or shank] joins upon the حَوْشَب [which seems here to mean the upper pasternbone]: or, as AO says, the part where a horse's وظيف joins to the upper part of the حوشب: or, as he says in another place, the place where each tibia and hind shank, of a horse, meet; [the hockjoint;] expl. by ملتقى ساقيه ووظيفى رجليه: and the place of junction of any two bones, except in the back-bone. (TA.) b6: Accord. to Lth, Whiteness of the بطانية [a word which I have not found anywhere but in this instance] of a horse or similar beast, extending to the hairs that surround the hoof. (TA.) جَبَبٌ A cutting off of the hump of a camel: (K:) or a cutting in the hump of a camel: (TA:) [or the state of having the hump cut off; as seems to be indicated in the S:] or an erosion of the hump of a camel, by the saddle, so that it does not grow large. (K, TA.) A2: See also 2.

جُبَبٌ Butter, or what is produced by churning, of camels' milk; like as زُبْد is what is produced by churning of cows' or sheep's or goats' milk: (Msb in art. زبد:) what rises upon the surface, (T, S,) or what has collected together [or coagulated], (K,) of the milk of camels, resembling زُبْد, (T, S, K,) which camels' milk has not: (S, K:) when a camel shakes about a skin of camels' milk, suspended to him, what is termed جباب collects at the mouth of the skin. (T.) جَبُوبٌ The earth, (Lh, K,) in general; (Lh;) sometimes written جَبُوبُ, as a proper name, without the article, and imperfectly decl., like شَعُوبُ: (TA:) so called because it is cut, i. e. dug; or because it cuts, i. e. dissunders, the bodies of those buried in it: (Suh, TA:) and hence ↓ جَبَّانٌ and ↓ جَبَّانَةٌ, signifying a burial-ground; from الجَبُّ and الجَبُوبُ; accord. to Kh; but others derive these two words from جبن: (TA:) or rugged land: (As, S, K:) or hard or rugged land, composed of rock, not of soil: (IAar, TA:) or earth, or dust: (Lh, K:) or the surface of the earth; (ISh, S, K;) whether plain or rugged or mountainous: (ISh:) a word without a pl.: (S:) also coarse, or big, lumps or clods of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud; plucked from the surface of the ground: (TA:) or crumbled clods of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud: (IAar, TA:) and with ة, a lump, or clod, of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud. (K.) جِبَابِىٌّ: see what next follows.

جُبِّىٌّ [app. a contraction of جُبَبِىٌّ], or ↓ جِبَابِىٌّ A seller of جِبَاب [pl. of جُبَّةٌ, q. v.]. (K.) جَبَّانٌ: see جَبُوبٌ; and see art. جبن.

جَبَّانَةٌ: see جَبُوبٌ; and see art. جبن.

جَبْجَبَةٌ: see what next follows, in two places.

جُبْجُبَةٌ, (S,) or ↓ جَبْجَبَةٌ, (A,) or both, (K,) and جَبَاجِبُ [which is the pl.], (L, TA,) The stomach of a ruminant animal * (S, A, K, TA) in which خَلْع [q. v.] is put, (S, TA,) i. e., (TA,) in which is put flesh-meat cut in pieces; (K, TA;) or in which is put flesh-meat to be used as provision in travelling; (TA;) or in which melted grease (S, K) is collected (S) or put: (K:) or the skin of the side of a camel, cut out in a round form, in which is prepared flesh-meat, (K, TA,) such as is called وَشِيقَة, (TA,) which is flesh-meat that is boiled once, and then cut into strips, and dried, or salted and sun-dried; the most lasting of all provision [of the kind]: (S, TA:) or the first and second both signify tripe; in Persian, شكنبه or إِشْكَنْبَه. (MA.) A coward is likened to a جبجبة in which خلع is put; because of his turgidness and his little profitableness. (TA.) b2: Also, the first, A vessel, or receptacle, made of skin, in which water is given to camels, and in which one macerates هَبِيد [i. e. colocynths, or the pulp thereof, or the seeds thereof]. (TA.) b3: And A basket, (S, K, TA,) of small size, (TA,) made of skins, (S, K, TA,) in which dust, or earth, is removed: (S, TA:) or, accord. to KT, it is [↓ جَبْجَبَةٌ,] with fet-h: (TA:) pl. جَبَاجِبُ. (S.) b4: And A drum: pl. جَبَاجِبُ [which is explained in the K as meaning “ a drum ” instead of “ drums ”]: as in the saying, ضُرِبَتْ عَلَى بَابِهِ الجَبَاجِبُ [The drums were beaten at his door]. (A.) جُبْجُبِىٌّ A tripe-seller. (Golius from Meyd. [See جُبْجُبَةٌ.]) جُبْجُبِيَّةٌ Food made with tripe; in Persian, شِكَنْبَهْ وَا; (Golius from Meyd;) in Turkish, سُخْتُو شورباسى. (MA.) أَجَبُّ A camel having his hump cut off: (S, K:) or having his hump cut off: (S, K:) or having his hump eroded by the saddle, so that it does not grow large: (K:) or having no hump: (A, TA:) fem. جَبَّآءُ. (A, K.) b2: and [hence,] the fem., (tropical:) A woman not having [prominent] buttocks: (K:) or i. q. رَسْحَآءُ [i. e. having small buttocks sticking together; or having little flesh in her posteriors and things]: (ISh, TA:) or whose bosom and breasts have not become large: (K:) or whose breast has not become large: (Sh, TA:) or small in the breast; from the same epithet applied to a she-camel; (A;) for a woman having small breasts is like the camel that has no hump: (TA:) or having no thighs; (K;) i. e. having lean thighs; as though having no thighs. (TA.) Also, the masc., (assumed tropical:) A pubes having little flesh. (TA.) b3: [Hence, also,] الأَجَبُّ i. q. الفَرْجُ [as meaning The pudendum muliebre]; (K;) from the same word as applied to a camel [having no hump]. (TA.) مَجَبَّةُ The middle, or main part, (جَادّة,) of a road. (S.) مُجَبَّبٌ A horse in which the [whiteness termed]

تَحْجِيل reaches to the knee and the hock; (S;) [i. e.] in which the whiteness [of the lower part of the leg] reaches to the knee and the hock or the knees and the hocks: (TA:) or in which the تحجيل reaches to his knees: (Lth, TA:) or in which the whiteness rises to [the extent of] what is termed الجَبَبُ; (K, TA;) or more than this, [perhaps a mistake of a copyist for less than this,] so as not to reach to the knees: or in which the whiteness reaches to the hairs that surround his hoof. (TA.) b2: بِئْرٌ مُجَبَّبَةٌ الجَوْفِ A well having in the middle a part wider than the rest, hollowed out like a cupola. (Fr, TA.) مَجْبُوبٌ Having the genitals, (Msb,) or the testicles (S, * Mgh, TA) and the penis, (Mgh,) cut off entirely, or extirpated: (S, * Mgh, Msb, TA:) or having the penis cut off. (TA.) مَجْبُوبَةٌ: see جُبُّ.

دب

1 دَبَّ aor. ـِ inf. n. دَبِيبٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K, &c.) and دَبٌّ (M, K,) and مَدَبٌّ, (S, K,) [and perhaps دَبَبٌ also, q. v.,] It, or he, (the ant, T, M, and any animal, M, and in like manner a party moving towards the enemy, T, or an army, and a child, Msb,) [crept; crawled; or] went, or walked, leisurely, or gently, (T, M, Msb, K,) without haste, (T,) عَلَى الأَرْضِ [upon the ground]: (S:) and [simply] he walked: (IAar, T:) he (an old man) [crept along; or] walked leisurely, softly, or gently: (S:) and ↓ دبّب, also, he walked leisurely, by slow degrees. (TA.) Hence, أَكْذَبُ مَنْ دَبَّ وَدَرَجَ The most lying of those who have walked and died, or passed away, or perished: (T:) i. e., of the living and the dead. (T, S, K.) And يَدِبُّ مَعَ القُرَادِ [He creeps about with ticks]; said of a man who brings a small worn-out skin containing ticks, and ties it to the tail of a camel; in consequence of which, when one of the ticks bites it, the camel runs away, and the other camels run away with it; and thereupon he steals one of them: whence it is said of a thief, or stealer of cattle &c. (TA.) And هُوَ يَدِبُّ بَيْنَنَا بِالنَّمَائِمِ (tropical:) [He creeps among us with calumnies, or slanders]. (A, TA.) And دَبَّتْ عَقَارَبُهُ [lit. His scorpions crept along]; meaning (tropical:) his calumnies, or slanders, and mischief, (M, A, K,) crept along; syn. سَرَتْ. (M, K [See also art. عقرب.]) And the same phrase is also used to signify (tropical:) His downy hair crept [along his cheeks]. (MF in art. عقرب.) And دَبَّ قَمْلُهُ [lit. His lice crept]; meaning (tropical:) he became fat: said of a man. (Ham. p. 633.) And دَبَّ الجَدْوَلُ (tropical:) [The rivulet, or streamlet for irrigation, crept along]. (A.) And دَبَّ فِيهِ (tropical:) It crept in, or into, it, or him; syn. سَرَى; (M, A, K;) namely, wine, or beverage, (T, M, A, K,) in, or into, the body, (M, K,) or in, or into, a man, (T,) and into a vessel; (M;) and a disease, or malady, (M, A, K,) in, or into, the body, (M, K,) or فِى عُرُوقِهِ [in his veins]; (A;) and wear in a garment, or piece of cloth; (M, K;) and the dawn in the darkness of the latter part of the night. (M.) b2: دِبِّى حَجَلْ (in the CK حَجَلُ) is the name of A certain game of the Arabs: (K, TA:) the ل is quiescent. (TA.) b3: دُبَّ used as a noun: see below.

A2: دَبَّ [second Pers\. دَبِبْتَ,] aor. ـَ inf. n. دَبَبٌ, He (a camel) was, or became, such as is termed أَدَبُّ; (IAar, T, TA;) i. e., had much hair, or much fur (وَبَر), or much fur upon the face. (TA.) 2 دَبَّّ see 1, first sentence.4 أَدْبَبْتُهُ [third Pers\. أَدَبَّ] I made him (namely, a child, S) [to creep, or crawl, or] to go, or walk, leisurely, or gently. (S, K. [For the correct explanation, حَمَلْتُهُ عَلَى الدَّبِيبِ, Golius seems to have found حملته على الدَّابَّةِ.]) b2: ادبّ البِلَادَ (assumed tropical:) He filled the country, or provinces, with justice, so that the inhabitants thereof walked at leisure (دَبَّ أَهْلُهَا [whence Golius has supposed دَبَّ to signify “ juste se habuit populus ”] M, K, TA) by reason of the security and abundance and prosperity that they enjoyed. (M, TA.) R. Q. 1 دَبْدَبَ, [inf. n. دَبْدَبَةٌ,] He (a man) raised cries, shouts, noises, or a clamour. (AA, T.) b2: And He beat a drum. (AA, T.) دَبٌّ: see دَبَبٌ.

دُبَّ and شُبَّ are used as nouns, by the introduction of مِنْ before them, though originally verbs. (S and K * and TA in art. شب.) One says, أَعْيَيْتَنِى مِنْ شُبَّ إِلَى دُبَّ, (M, K, *) by way of imitation [of a verbal phrase], (M,) and من شُبٍّ الى دُبٍّ, Thou hast wearied me from the time of thy becoming a youth until thy walking gently, [or creeping along, resting] upon a staff: (M, K, * TA:) a prov.: (M, TA:) said alike to a man and to a woman. (TA in art. شب.) and فَعَلْتَ كَذَا مِنْ شُبَّ إِلَى دُبَّ and من شُبٍّ الى دُبٍّ

Thou hast done thus from youth until thy walking gently, [or creeping along, resting] upon the staff. (S.) A2: دُبٌّ: see دُبَّةٌ, in two places.

A3: Also [The bear;] a certain beast of prey, (S, M, K,) well known; (K;) a certain foul, or noxious, animal: (Msb:) a genuine Arabic word: (M:) fem. with ة: pl. [of mult.] دِبَبَةٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَدْبَابٌ. (M, K.) b2: [Hence,] الدُّبُّ (assumed tropical:) The constellation of the Greater Bear: and, accord. to some, that of the Lesser Bear: the former, for distinction, being called الدُّبُّ الأَكْبَرُ; and the latter, الدُّبُّ الأَصْغَرُ. (M, K.) دَبَّةٌ A single act [of creeping, or crawling, or] of going, or walking, leisurely, or gently: pl. دِبَابٌ. (K.) A2: A hill, or heap, or gibbous hill, syn. كَثِيب, (IAar, T, S, M, K,) of sand: (S, K:) and (in some copies of the K “ or ”) a tract of red sand: or an even tract of sand: (K:) or, as in some copies of the K, an even tract of land: (TA:) and a place abounding in sand: (T, L:) pl. as above. (TA.) Hence the prov., وَقَعَ فُلَانٌ فِى دَبَّةً مِنَ الرَّمْلِ [lit. Such a one fell into, or upon, a place abounding in sand]; meaning, (tropical:) into difficulty, or misfortune; for the camel in such a place suffers fatigue. (T.) A3: A certain thing for oil, or ointment; (S;) a receptacle for seeds (بِزْر) and olive-oil: (M, K:) pl. as above. (Sb, M.) A kind of bottle, or pot, (بَطَّةٌ,) peculiarly of glass. (K.) [Form the Pers\. دَبَّهْ.] b2: See also دُبَّآءٌ.

A4: And see دَبَبٌ, in three places.

دُبَّةٌ A way, or road. (S.) b2: (assumed tropical:) A state, or condition: (M, K:) and (tropical:) a way, mode, or manner, of acting &c.; (IAar, T, S, M, A, K;) whether good or evil: (IAar, T:) as also ↓ دُبٌّ, (M, A, K,) in both these senses: (M:) and (assumed tropical:) a natural disposition, temper, quality, or property. (S:) You say, رَكِبْتُ دُبَّتَهُ, and ↓ دُبَّهُ (M, A) (tropical:) I kept to his state, or condition, and his way, mode, or manner, of acting &c.; and did as he did. (M.) And دَعْنِى وَدُبَّتِى (assumed tropical:) Leave thou me and my way, mode, or manner, of acting &c.; and my natural disposition, &c. (S.) دِبَّةٌ A mode, or manner, [of creeping, or crawling, or] of going, or walking, leisurely, or gently. (M, K. *) You say, هُوَ خَفِىُّ الدِّبَّةِ [He has a soft, or stealthy, mode, or manner, of creeping along, &c.]. (M, K:) And دَبَبْتُ دِبَّةً خَفِيَّةً [I crept along in a soft, or stealthy, mode, or manner, of creeping]. (T, S.) A2: Also i. q. ↓ دَبِيبٌ [as meaning Anything that creeps, or crawls, upon the earth; and used as a coll. gen. n.]. (K.) One says, مَا أَكْثَرَ دِبَّةً هٰذَا البَلَدِ [How many are the creeping, or crawling, things of this country, or town!]. (TA.) دَبَبٌ A certain pace, between that termed النَّصْبُ and that termed العَنَقُ: (TA voce نَصَبَ, as on the authority of En-Nadr:) or this is termed ↓ دَبِيبٌ. (TA voce وَسَجَ, as on the authority of En-Nadr and As.) A2: Also Down; syn. زَغَبٌ; (M, K;) and so ↓ دَبَبَانٌ, (K,) and ↓ دَبَّةٌ: (Kr. M:) or down (T, S) of the face, (S,) or upon the face; (T;) and so ↓ دَبَّةٌ, (K,) of which the pl. [or coll. gen. n.] is ↓ دَبٌّ; (M, K;) accord. to Kr, who assigns to it the former meaning, and says that ↓ دَبَّةٌ is syn. with زَغَبٌ, not that it is syn. with زَغَبَةٌ: (M:) or دَبَبٌ signifies hair upon the face of a woman: (TA:) or, as also ↓ دَبَبَانٌ, much hair (M, K) and وَبَر [or camel's fur]: (M:) or both these words signify hair upon the جَبِين [or part above the temple] of a woman. ('Eyn, TT.) A3: Also The young one, when just born, of the [wild] cow: (K:) or when a [wild] bull is a year old, and weaned, he is thus called; and the female, دَبَبَةٌ, and دبان. (TA in art. شب.

[But for “ and دبان,” I think it evident that we should read “ and the pl. is دُبَّانٌ,” or “ دِبَّانٌ,”

like as جُذْعَانٌ and جِذْعَانٌ are pls. of جَذَعٌ. See also شَبَبٌ.]) دَبِبَةٌ: see أَدَبُّ.

دَبَبانٌ: see دَبَبٌ, in two places.

دَبَابِ [an imperative verbal n.,] a call to a female hyena, signifying دِبِّى [i. e. Creep along; or crawl; or go leisurely]: (Sb, T, K:) like نَزَالِ and حَذَارِ. (Sb, T.) دَبَابٌ The pace, or motion, of a she-camel that can scarcely walk, by reason of the abundance of her flesh, and only creeps along, or walks slowly. (T, * TA.) دَبُوبٌ A she-camel that can scarcely walk, by reason of the abundance of her flesh, and that only creeps along, or walks slowly: (S:) pl. دُبُبٌ. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) Fat; (T, M, K;) as an epithet applied to a she-camel, (T,) or to any thing [or animal]. (M, K.) b3: (assumed tropical:) One who creeps about with calumny, or slander; as also ↓ دَيْبُوبٌ: (T, K: *) or the latter signifies (assumed tropical:) one who calumniates, or slanders, much, or habitually; as though he crept about with calumnies, or slanders: (M:) or (assumed tropical:) one who brings men and women together; (T, M, K;) because he creeps about between them, and hides himself: (T:) i. q. دَيُّوثٌ. (M, in TA, art. ديث.) b4: جِرَاحَةٌ دَبُوبٌ (assumed tropical:) A wound that flows with blood. (K.) and طَعْنَةٌ دَبُوبٌ (assumed tropical:) A thrust, or stab, that makes the blood to flow. (K.) A2: (assumed tropical:) A deep cave, or cavern. (K.) دَبِيبٌ inf. n. of دَبَّ [q. v.]. (T, S, M, &c.) See also دَبَبٌ.

A2: And see also دَابَّةٌ, and دِبَّةٌ.

دُبَّآءٌ and ↓ دَبَّةٌ The gourd: (M, K:) or round gourd: or dry gourd: but this is said by Ibn-Hajar to be a mistake of En-Nawawee; and he asserts it to be i. q. يَقْطِينٌ [q. v.]: or it is the fruit of the يقطين: (TA:) n. un. of the former with ة. (M, K.) Accord. to F [and ISd] and several others, this is the proper art. of the former word, the ء being considered by them augmentative: accord. to Z and others, its proper art. is دبى: and some also allow its being written and pronounced دُبًّى: this is mentioned by Kz and 'Iyád as a dial. var. of دُبَّآء. (TA.) [See an ex. voce رِشَآءٌ, in art. رشو.]

مَا بِالدَّارِ دُبِّىٌّ and دِبِّىٌّ There is not in the house any one: (S, M, * K:) دُبِّىٌّ being from دَبَبْتُ; i. e. مَنْ يَدِبُّ; and it is not used in any but a negative phrase. (Ks, S.) [See also دِبِّيجٌ and دِبِّيحٌ.]

دُبَّآءَةٌ A locust while smooth and bare, before its wings have grown. (Mentioned in the TA in this art., but not there said to belong to it. [See art. دبى.]) b2: [See also دُبَّآءٌ, of which it is the n. un.]

دَبَّابٌ An animal that is weak, and creeps along, or walks slowly: fem. with ة. (TA from a trad.) دَبَّابَةٌ fem. of دَبَّابٌ. (TA.) b2: [Also, as a subst., The musculus, or testudo;] a machine (M, * Mgh, * K, TA) made of skins and wood, (TA,) used in war; (M, Mgh, K, TA;) men entering into [or beneath] it, (Mgh, TA,) it is propelled to the lower part of a fortress, and they make a breach therein (M, Mgh, K, TA) while within the machine, (M, K, TA,) which defends them from what is thrown upon them from above: (TA:) it is also called ضَبْرٌ. (Mgh.) دَبْدَبٌ The walk of the long-legged ant. (M, K.) In the T it is said that ↓ دَبْدَبَةٌ signifies The long-legged ant [itself: but this is perhaps a mistranscription]. (TA.) دَبْدَبَةٌ [inf. n. of R. Q. 1, q. v.] b2: Any quick motion, or pace, performed with short steps: (M:) and any sound like that of solid hoofs falling upon hard ground: (M, K:) a certain kind of sound [like the tramp of horses, as is indicated by an ex.]: (S:) or cries, shouts, noises, or clamour: (A:) and دَبَادِبُ [is its pl., and] signifies a sound like دُبْ دُبْ; an onomatopœia. (T.) A2: [A kind of drum;] a thing resembling a طَبْل: pl. دَبَادِبُ. (Mgh, Msb. [See also دَبْدَابٌ.]) A3: Milk such as is termed رَائِب, upon which fresh is milked: or the thickest of milk; as also ↓ دَبْدَبَى. (K.) A4: See also دَبْدَبٌ.

دَبْدَبَى: see the next preceding paragraph.

دَبْدَابٌ A drum; syn. طَبْلٌ. (M, K. [See also دَبْدَبَةٌ.]) دُبَادِبٌ Very clamorous; (IAar, T, K;) as also جُبَاجِبٌ: (IAar, T:) or both signify very evil, or mischievous, and clamorous. (Az, in TA, art. جب.) b2: And A bulky, or corpulent, man. (K.) دَابَّةٌ [originally a fem. part. n.], for نَفْسٌ دَابَّةٌ, (M,) [or the ة is added لِلنَّقْلِ, i. e. for the purpose of transferring the word from the category of epithets to that of substs.,] Anything that walks [or creeps or crawls] upon the earth; as also ↓ دَبِيبٌ: (S: see دِبَّةٌ:) an animal that walks or creeps or crawls (يَدِبُّ); (M, A, K;) discriminating and not discriminating: (M:) any animal upon the earth: (Msb:) it is said in the Kur [xxiv. 44], وَاللّٰهُ خَلَقَ كُلَّ دَابَّةٍ مِنْ مَآءٍ فَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَمْشِى عَلَى بَطْنِهِ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَمْشِى عَلَى رِجْلَيْنِ وَمِنْهُمْ مَنْ يَمْشِى عَلَى أَرْبَعٍ [And God hath created every دابّة of water (meaning of the seminal fluid); and of them is he that goeth upon his belly, and of them is he that goeth upon two legs, and of them is he that goeth upon four]: here, as دابّة applies to a rational and an irrational creature, the expression فمنهم is used; for which, if it applied only to an irrational creature, فَمِنْهَا or فَمِنْهُنَّ would be used: moreover, the expression من يمشى is used, though دابّة applies originally to an irrational creature, [or rather a beast, and a reptile,] because the different classes of beings are spoken of collectively: (M:) and this passage of the Kur refutes the assertion of him who excludes the bird from the significations of this word: (Msb:) in the last verse but one of ch. xxxv. of the Kur, it is said to relate to mankind and the jinn (or genii) and every rational being; or to have a general signification: (M:) its predominant signification is a beast that is ridden: (S, M, A, K:) especially a beast of the equine kind; i. e. a horse, a mule, and an ass: (Kull:) or particularly a بِرْذَوْن [meaning hackney, or horse for ordinary use and for journeying: (M:) but as particularly applied, when used absolutely, to a horse and a mule, it is an adventitious conventional term: (Msb:) it is applied to a male and a female: (M, A, Msb, K:) and is properly an epithet: (M:) pl. دَوَابُّ. (Msb, TA.) The dim. [signifying Any small animal that walks or creeps or crawls upon the earth, a small beast, a small reptile or creeping thing, a creeping insect, and any insect, and also a mollusk, a shell-fish (as in an instance cited voce مَحَارَةٌ in art. حور) and the like,] is ↓ دُوَيْبَّةٌ, (Zj, T, Msb,) in which the ى is quiescent, but pronounced with إِشْمَام [i. e. a slight approximation to the sound of kesr], as it is in every similar case, in a dim. n., when followed by a doubled letter: (Zj, T:) and ↓ دُوَابَّةٌ also has been heard, with the ى changed into ا anomalously. (Msb; and L in art. هد, on the authority of ISd.) b2: دَابَّةُ الأَرْضِ [The Beast of the Earth] is an appellation of one of the signs of the time of the resurrection: (S, M, K:) or the first of those signs. (K.) It is said to be a beast sixty cubits in length, or height, with legs, and with fur (وَبَر), and to be diverse in form, resembling a number of different animals. (TA.) It will come forth in Tihámeh, or between Es-Safà and ElMarweh, (M,) or at Mekkeh, from Jebel Es-Safà, which will rend open for its egress, during one of the nights when people are going to Minè; or from the district of Et-Táïf; (K) or from three places, three several times. (M, K.) It will make, upon the face of the unbeliever, a black mark; and upon the face of the believer, a white mark: the unbeliever's mark will spread until his whole face becomes black; and the believer's, until his whole face becomes white: then they will assemble at the table, and the believer will be known from the unbeliever. (M.) It is also said that it will have with it the rod of Moses and the seal of Solomon: with the former it will strike the believer; and with the latter it will stamp the face of the unbeliever, impressing upon it “ This is an unbeliever. ” (K.) b3: See also أَرَضَةٌ.

دَيْبُوبٌ: see دَبُوبٌ.

دُوَابَّةٌ: dims. of دَابَّةٌ, q. v.

دُوَيْبَّةٌ: dims. of دَابَّةٌ, q. v.

أَدَبٌّ Having down (K, TA) upon the face: (TA:) or having much hair: (M, K:) and having much وَبَر [or fur]: (M:) it is applied to a man: (M:) and to a camel, (M, K,) in the second of these senses, (K, TA,) or in the third sense, or as meaning having much fur upon the face; (TA;) or i. q. أَزَبُّ: (M:) and occurs in a trad. written أَدْبَب, (M, K,) to assimilate it in measure to a preceding word, namely, حَوْءَب: (M:) the fem. is دَبَّآءُ; with which ↓ دَبِبَةٌ is syn.; (M, K;) signifying a woman having hair upon her face: (TA:) or having much hair upon the جَبِين [or part above the temple]. (M, TA.) مَدِبٌّ and مَدَبٌّ The track, or course, of a torrent, (S, M, K, *) and of ants: (S, K:) pl. مَدَابُّ. (TA.) One says, of a sword, لَهُ أَثْرٌ كَأَنَّهُ مَدَبُّ النَّمْلِ and مَدَابُّ الذَّرِّ [It has diversified wavy marks like the track of ants and the tracks of little ants]. (TA.) The subst. is with kesr; and the inf. n., with fet-h; accord. to a rule constantly obtaining, (S, * K, * TA,) except in some anomalous instances, (TA,) when the verb is of the measure فَعَلَ (S, K, TA) or فَعِلَ, (TA,) and its aor. is of the measure يَفْعِلُ. (S, K, TA.) [Here it should be observed that مَجْرًى, given as the explanation of مَدِبٌّ and مَدَبٌّ in the K, is both an inf. n. and a n. of place and of time: but J clearly explains both these words as above; and F seems, in the K, to assign to them both the same signification.]

أَرْضٌ مَدَبَّةٌ A land abounding with دِبَبَة [or bears]. (T, S, M. *) مُدَبَّبٌ, like مُعَظَّمٌ, (TA,) or مِدْبَبٌ, (so in a copy of the T, according to the TT,) an epithet applied to a camel, (T, TA,) signifying الذى يمشى دبادب (TA) [app. دَبَادِبَ, and if so it seems to mean That walks quickly, with short steps: or that makes a sound with his feet, like دُبْ دُبْ: see دَبْدَبَةٌ: but in the TT it is written دَباْ دَباْ; perhaps correctly دَبًّا دَبًّا, creeping and creeping].

الْوَاو المُفْرَدَةُ
: مِن حُروفِ المُعْجم، وَقد تقدَّم ذِكْرها، وَهِي على (أَقْسام:
(الأُولَى: العاطِفَةُ لمُطْلَقِ الجَمْع) مِن غيرِ تَرْتيبٍ (فَتَعْطِفُ الشَّيءَ على مصاحِبِه) كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {فأَنْجَيْناهُ وأَصْحابَ السَّفينةِ} ، و) تَعْطِفُ الشَّيءَ (على سابِقِه) كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {وَلَقَد أَرْسَلْنا نُوحاً وإبراهيمَ} ؛ وعَلى لاحِقِه) كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {كَذلكَ يُوحِي إِلَيْك وَإِلَى الذينَ مِن قَبْلِكَ} . والفَرْقُ بَيْنها وبَيْنَ الفاءِ أنَّ الواوَ يُعْطَفُ بهَا جُمْلَةٌ وَلَا تدلُّ على التَّرْتيبِ فِي تَقْدِيمِ المُقَدّم ذِكْره على المُؤَخّرِ ذِكْره، وأَمَّا الفرَّاء فإنَّه يُوصِلُ بهَا مَا بَعْدَها بِالَّذِي قَبْلها والمُقدّمُ الأَوَّل، وَقَالَ الفرَّاء: إِذا قلْت زُرْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ وزَيْداً فأيّهما شِئْتَ كَانَ هُوَ المُبْتَدَأ بالزِّيارَةِ، وإنْ قلْت زُرْتُ عَبْدَ اللهِ فزَيْداً كانَ الأوَّل هُوَ الأوَّل والآخرُ هُوَ الآخرُ، انتَهَى. (وَإِذا قيلَ: قامَ زَيْدٌ وعَمْرٌ و، احْتَمَلَ ثلاثَةَ مَعانٍ) : المَعِيّة ومُطْلَق الجَمْع والتَّرْتيب، (وكَوْنُها للمَعِيَّةِ راجِحٌ) لمَا بَيْنهما مِن المُناسَبَةِ لأنَّ مَعَ للمُصاحَبَةِ، وَمِنْه الحديثُ: (بُعِثْتُ أَنا والساعَةُ كهَاتَيْن) ، أَي مَعَ الساعَةِ؛ (وللتَّرْتيبِ كَثيرٌ ولعَكْسِه قَليلٌ، ويجوزُ أَنْ يكونَ بَيْنَ مُتَعاطِفَيْها تَقارُبٌ أَو تَراخٍ) كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {إنَّا رَادُّوهُ إِلَيْك وجاعِلُوه مِنَ المُرْسَلِيْنَ} ، فإنَّ بينَ رَدِّ موسَى إِلَى أُمِّه وجَعْلهِ رَسُولاً زَمانٌ مُتراخٍ؛ (وَقد تَخْرُجُ الواوُ عَن إفادَةِ مُطْلَقِ الجَمْع وذلكَ على أَوْجُهٍ:
(أَحَدُها: تكونُ بمعْنَى أَوْ وذلكَ على ثلاثَةِ أَوْجُهٍ: أَحَدُها) : أَنْ (تكونَ بمعْناها فِي التَّقْسِيم، نحوُ: الكَلمةُ اسمٌ وفِعْلٌ وحَرْفٌ؛ و) الثَّانِي: (بمعْناها فِي الإباحَةِ) كَقَوْلِك: (جالِسِ الحَسَنَ وابنَ سِيرِينَ أَي أَحَدَهُما؛ و) الثالثُ: (بمَعْناها فِي التَّخْيير) كقولِ الشَّاعرِ:
(وَقَالُوا نَأَتْ فاخْتَرْ لَها الصَّبْرَ والبُكا (والوَجْهُ الثَّانِي) : أَنْ تكونَ (بمعْنَى باءِ الجَرِّ نحوُ: أَنْتَ أَعْلَمُ ومالَكَ) ، أَي بمالِكَ، (وبِعْتُ الشَّاءَ شَاة ودِرْهَماً) ، أَي بدِرْهَمٍ.
(الثَّالث: بمعْنَى لامِ التَّعْليل؛ نحوُ) قَوْله تَعَالَى: {يَا لَيْتَنَا نُرَدُّ وَلَا نَكْذِبُ} ، أَي لئَلاَّ نَكْذِبَ، (قالَهُ الخارَزَنْجي) مُصنِّفُ تَكْملة العَيْن وَقد مَضَتْ تَرْجمتُه عنْدَ ذِكْرِه فِي حَرْفِ الجِيم.
(الَّرابع: وَاو الاسْتِئْنافِ) كَقَوْلِهِم: (لَا تَأْكُلِ السَّمَكَ وتَشْرَبِ اللَّبَنَ فيمَنْ رَفَعَ) ، وَقد ذُكِرَ ذلكَ فِي بَحْثِ لَا قَرِيباً.
(الْخَامِس: واوُ المَفْعولِ مَعَه: كسِرْتُ والنِّيلَ.
(السَّادِسُ: واوُ القَسَمِ) كقولِهم: واللهاِ لقَدْ كانَ كَذَا، وَهُوَ بدلٌ مِن الباءِ وإنَّما أبدلٌ مِنْهُ لقُرْبِه مِنْهُ فِي المَخْرَجِ إِذْ كانَ مِن حُروفِ الشَّفَةِ (وَلَا تَدْخُلُ إلاَّ على مُظْهَرٍ) فَلَا يقالُ وك اسْتغْنَاء بِالْبَاء عَنْهَا، (وَلَا تَتَعَلَّقُ إلاَّ بمَحْذُوفٍ نحوُ) قَوْله تَعَالَى: {والقُرآنُ الحَكِيم} ، وَلَا يقالُ أُقْسِمُ واللهاِ، (إنْ تَلَتْها واوٌ أُخْرَى) كقولِهِ تَعَالَى: {والطّورِ وكِتابٍ مَسْطورٍ} (فالثانِيَةُ للعَطْفِ) والأُولى للقَسَمِ (وإلاَّ لاحْتاجَ كلٌّ إِلَى جَوابٍ نحوُ) قَوْله تَعَالَى: {والتِّيْنِ والزَّيتُونِ) وطُورِ سِيِنِيْنَ} . (السَّابعُ: واوُ رُبّ، وَلَا تَدْخُلُ إلاَّ على مُنَكَّرٍ) مَوْصوفٍ لأنَّ وَضْعَ رُبَّ لتَقْليلِ نَوْعٍ مِن جِنْسٍ فيذكرُ الجِنْسَ ثمَّ يَخْتَصُّ بصفَةِ تَعْرفةٍ؛ وَمِنْه قولُ الشاعرِ:
وبَلْدةٍ ليسَ بهَا أَنِيسُ
إلاَّ اليَعافِيرُ وإلاَّ العِيسُ أَي ورُبَّ بَلْدةٍ.
(الثَّامن: الَّزائِدَةُ) ، كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {حَتَّى إِذا جاؤها وفُتِحَتْ أَبوابُها} ، جَوَّزَه الجَوْهرِي؛ وَقَالَ غيرُه: هِيَ واوُ الثمانِيَةِ، وَفِي الصِّحاح: قالَ الأصْمعي: قلْتُ لأبي عَمْرِو بنِ العَلاءِ: وقولُهم رَبّنا ولكَ الحَمْدُ، فقالَ: يقولُ الرَّجُلُ للرَّجُلِ بِعْني هَذَا الثَّوْبَ، فيقولُ: وَهُوَ لَكَ وأَظنُّه أَرادَ هُوَ لَك؛ وأَنْشَدَ الأخْفَش:
فَإِذا وذلِكَ يَا كُبَيْشةُ لمْ يَكُنْ
إلاَّ كَلَمَّةِ حالِمٍ بخَيالِكأنَّه قَالَ: فَإِذا ذلكَ لم يَكُنْ، وقالَ آخَرُ، وَهُوَ زُهيرٌ:
قِفْ بالدِّيارِ الَّتِي لم يَعْفُها القِدَمُ
بَلَى وغَيَّرَها الأَرْواحُ والدِّيَمُيُريدُ: بَلَى غَيَّرَها؛ كَذَا فِي الصِّحاح قَالَ ابنُ برِّي: وَقد ذَكَرَ بعضُ أَهْل العِلْم أنَّ الواوَ زائِدَةٌ فِي قَوْله تَعَالَى: {وأَوْحَيْنا إِلَيْهِ لتُنَبِّئَنَّهم بأَمْرِهم هَذَا} ، لأنَّه جوابُ لمَّا فِي قَوْله: {فلمَّا ذَهَبُوا بِهِ وأَجْمَعُوا أَنْ يَجْعَلُوه فِي غَيابَةِ الجُبِّ} . (التَّاسِعُ: واوُ الثَّمانِيَةِ: يقالُ ستَّةٌ سَبْعةٌ وثمانِيَةٌ، وَمِنْه) قَوْله تَعَالَى: {سَبْعةٌ وثامِنُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ} ، وَقَوله تَعَالَى: {ثَيِّبات وأَبْكَاراً} ، وَقَوله تَعَالَى: {والنَّاهُونَ عَن المُنْكَر} قَالَ السَّهيلي فِي الرَّوْضِ: واوُ الثمانِيَةِ فِي قَوْله تَعَالَى: {سَبْعةٌ وثامِنُهُم كَلْبُهُم} تدلُّ على تَصْدِيقِ القائِلِينَ بأنَّهم سَبْعةٌ لأنَّها عاطِفَةٌ على كَلامٍ مُضْمَرٍ تَقْديرُه نَعَم وثامِنُهُم كَلْبُهُم، وذلكَ أنَّ قائِلاً لَو قالَ: إنَّ زَيْداً شاعِرٌ فقُلْت لَهُ: فَقِيهٌ، كُنْت قد صدَّقْته كأنَّك قُلْت: نَعَم هُوَ كَذلكَ وفَقِيهٌ أَيْضاً؛ وَكَذَا الحديثُ: (أَيتوضَّأُ بمَا أَفْضَلَتِ الحُمُر؟ قالَ. وَبِمَا أَفْضَلَتِ السِّباعُ) ؛ يريدُ نَعَم وبَما أَفْضَلَت السِّباعُ؛ خَرَّجَه الدَّارْقطْني؛ قالَ: وَقد أَبْطَل واوَ الثمانِيَةِ هَذِه ابنُ هِشامٍ وغيرُهُ مِن المُحقِّقين وَقَالُوا: لَا مَعْنى لَهُ وبَحثُوا فِي أَمْثِلتِه وَقَالُوا إنَّها مُتناقِضَةٌ.
(العاشِرُ: واوُ ضميرِ الذُّكُورِ نحوُ) قَوْلهم: (الرِّجالُ قامُوا) ويَقُومُونَ وقُومُوا أَيّها الرِّجال، وَهُوَ (اسْمٌ) عنْدَ الأكْثرينَ، وقالَ (الأخْفَشُ والمازِنيُّ) ؛ هُوَ (حَرْفٌ.
(الحادِي عَشَرَ: واوُ عَلامةِ المُذَكَّرِينَ فِي لُغَةِ طيِّىءٍ أَو أَزْدِشَنُوءَةَ أَو بَلْحَارِثِ) على اخْتِلافٍ فِي ذلكَ؛ (وَمِنْه) الحديثُ: ((يتعاقَبُونَ فيكُمْ ملائكةٌ باللَّيلِ وملائكةٌ بالنَّهارِ) .
(الثَّانِي عَشَرَ: واوُ الإنْكارِ نحوُ: الرَّجُلُوهُ بعدَ قَوْلِ القائِلِ: قامَ الرجلُ) ، فَقَوله: الرَّجُلُوهْ هُوَ قَوْلُ المُنْكِر يَمدُّه بالواوِ والهاءِ للوَقْفَة؛ وَمِنْه كَذلكَ: الحَسَنُوهْ وعَمْرُوه، وتُسَمَّى أَيْضاً واوُ الإسْتِنْكار.
(الثَّالثُ عَشَرَ: الواوُ المُبْدلَةُ مِن هَمْزةِ الاسْتِفْهامِ المَضْمومُ مَا قَبْلَها كقِراءَةِ قُنْبُلٍ: {وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُورُ وأَمِنْتُمْ} ،) وكَذلكَ: {قَالَ فِرْعَوْنُ وآمَنْتُمْ} .
(الَّرابعُ عَشَرَ: واوُ التَّذْكِيرِ، كَذَا فِي النسخِ، والصَّوابُ التَّذكّر، فَفِي التّكْملةِ: وتكونُ للتَّعايي والتَّذَكّر كقولِكَ: هَذَا عَمْرُو فتَسْتَمِدُّ ثمَّ تقولُ مَنْطَلِقٌ؛ وكَذلكَ الألِفُ والياءُ قد تكونانِ للتَّذَكّر، انتَهَى.
(الخامسُ عَشَرَ: واوُ) الصِّلَةِ و (القَوافِي) ، كَقَوْلِه:
قِفْ بالدِّيار الَّتِي لم يَعْفُها القِدَمُو فوُصِلَتْ ضمَّةُ الْمِيم بواوٍ ثَمَّ بهَا وَزْنُ البَيْتِ.
(السَّادسُ عَشَرَ: واوُ الإشْباعِ كالبُرْقُوع) والمُعْلُوقِ، والعربُ تَصِلُ الضمَّةَ بالواوِ. وحَكَى الفرَّاءُ: أُنْظُور فِي مَوْضِعِ أَنْظُر؛ وأنْشَدَ:
مِن حَيْثُ مَا سَلَكُوا أَدْنُو فأَنْظُورُ وَقد ذُكِرَ فِي الرَاءِ، وأنْشَدَ أَيْضاً:
لَوْ أنَّ عَمْراً هُمَّ أَن يَرْقُودا
فانْهَضْ فشُدَّ المِئْزَرَ المَعْقُوداأَرادَ: أنْ يَرْقُد فأَشْبَعَ الضمَّةَ ووَصَلَها بالواوِ ونَصَبَ يَرْقُودَ على مَا يُنْصَبُ بِهِ الفِعْلُ.
(السَّابعُ عَشَرَ: مَدُّ الاسْمِ بالنِّداءِ) كَقَوْلِهِم: يَا قُورْطُ، يُريدُ قُرْطاً، فمدُّوا ضمَّة القافِ بالواوِ ليَمْتَدَّ الصَّوْتَ بالنِّداءِ.
(الثَّامنُ عَشَرَ: الواوُ المُحَوَّلَةُ) نَحْو: (طُوبَى أَصْلُها طُيْبَى) قُلِبَتِ الياءُ واواً لانْضِمام الطاءِ قَبْلَها وَهِي مِن طابَ يَطِيبُ، ومِن ذَلِك واوُ المُوسِرِينَ مِن أَيْسَرَ. ومِن أَقْسامِ الواوِ المُحوَّلةِ: واوُ الجَزْمِ المُرْسَلِ كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {ولَتَعْلُنَّ عُلُوًّا كَبِيرا} فأُسْقِطَتِ الواوُ لالْتِقاءِ السَّاكِنَينِ لأنَّ قَبْلَها ضمَّةً تَخْلُفها؛ وَمِنْهَا: واوُ الجَزْمِ المُنْبَسِطِ كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {لَتُبْلَوُنَّ فِي أَمْوالِكُم} فَلم تَسْقُطِ الواوُ وحَرَّكُوها لأنَّ قَبْلَها فتْحةً لَا تكونُ عِوَضاً عَنْهَا. قالَ الأزْهري: هَكَذَا رَواهُ المُنْذرِي عَن أَبي طالِبٍ النحوّي.
(التَّاسعُ عَشَرَ: واواتُ الأَبْنِيَةِ كالجَوْرَبِ والتَّوْرَبِ) للتُّرابِ والجَدْوَلِ والحَشْوَرِ وَمَا أَشْبَهَها.
(العِشْرونَ: واوُ الوَقْتِ: وتَقْرُبُ مِن واوِ الحالِ) كَقَوْلِك: (اعْمَلْ وأَنْتَ صَحِيحٌ) ، أَي فِي وقْتِ صحَّتِكَ والآنَ وأَنْتَ فارِغٌ.
(الحادِي والعِشْرونَ: واوُ النِّسْبَةِ: كأَخَوِيَ فِي النِّسْبَةِ إِلَى أَخٍ) ، بفَتْح الهَمْزةِ والخاءِ وكَسْر الواوِ، وَهَكَذَا كانَ يَنْسبُه أَبو عَمْرِو بنُ العَلاءِ، وَكَانَ يَنْسبُ إِلَى الزِّنازِنَوِيٌّ، وَإِلَى أُخْتٍ أُخَوِيٌّ بضمِّ الهَمْزةِ، وَإِلَى ابنِ بَنَوِيٌّ، وَإِلَى عالِيَةِ الحجازِ عُلْوِيٌّ، وَإِلَى عَشِيَّة عَشَوِيٌّ، وَإِلَى أَبٍ أَبَوِيٌّ.
(الثَّاني والعِشْرونَ: واوُ عَمْرٍ و) : زِيدَتْ (لتَفْرِقَ بَيْنه وبينَ عُمَرَ) فِي الرَّفْعِ والخَفْضِ وَفِي النّصْبِ تَسْقُطُ تقولُ: رأَيْتُ عَمْراً لأنّه حَصَلَ الأمْنُ مِن الالْتِباسِ، وزِيدَتْ فِي عَمْرٍ ودُونَ عُمَر لأنَّ عُمَرَ أثْقَلُ مِن عَمْرٍ و.
(الثَّالثُ والعِشْرونَ: الواوُ الفارِقَةُ) : وَهِي كلُّ واوٍ دَخَلَتْ فِي أَحَدِ الحَرْفَيْن المُشْتَبَهَيْن تَفْرقُ بَيْنه وبينَ المُشْبَه لَهُ فِي الخَطِّ (كواوِ أُولئِكَ وأُولَى لئَلاَّ يَشْتَبِه بإِلَيْكَ وَإِلَى) ، كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {أُولئِكَ على هُدًى من رَبِّهم} ، وَقَوله تَعَالَى: {غَيْرُ أُولي الضَّرَرِ} زِيدَتْ فيهمَا الواوُ فِي الخَطِّ ليَفْرقَ بَيْنهما وبينَ مَا شَاكَلهما فِي الصُّورَةِ.
(الَّرابعُ والعِشْرونَ: واوُ الهَمْزةِ فِي الخَطِّ) واللّفْظِ، فأَمَّا الخَطّ (كهذهِ نِساؤُكَ وشاؤُكَ) صُوِّرَتِ الهَمْزةُ واواً لضمَّتها، (و) أَمَّا (فِي اللَّفْظِ: كحَمْراوانِ وسَوْداوانِ) وَمثل قَوْلك: أُعِيذُ بأَسْماواتِ اللهاِ وأَبْناواتِ سَعْدٍ، وَمثل السَّمواتِ وَمَا أَشْبَهها.
(الخامسُ والعِشْرونَ: والنِّداءِ والنُّدْبةِ) ، الأوَّل كوازَيْد، وَالثَّانِي كواغُرْبَتاهْ، وَقد تقدَّمَ. وَفِي التكملةِ: وَهِي غَيْرُ واوُ النُّدْبة. فتأَمَّل.
(السَّادسُ والعِشْرون: واوِ الحالِ) ، كَقَوْلِك: (أَتَيْتُه والشمسُ طالِعَةٌ) ، أَي فِي حالِ طُلوعِها، وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى: {إِذْ نادَى وَهُوَ مَكْظُومٌ} ، ومَثَّل الجَوْهرِي لواوِ الحالِ بقولِهم: قُمْتُ وأَصُكّ وَجْهَه، أَي قُمْتُ صاكًّا وَجْهَه، وكقولهم: قُمْتُ والناسُ قُعُودٌ.
(السَّابعُ والعِشْرونَ: واوُ الصَّرْفِ) : قَالَ الفرَّاء: (وَهُوَ أَنْ تأْتي الواوُ مَعْطوفَةً على كَلامٍ فِي أَوَّلهِ حادِثَةٌ لَا تَسْتَقيمُ إعادتُها على مَا عُطِفَ عَلَيْهَا كقولهِ) ، أَي الشاعرِ، وَهُوَ المُتَوكِّلُ اللَّيْثي:
(لَا تَنْهَ عَن خُلُقٍ وتأْتيَ مِثْلَهُ (عارٌ عَلَيْك إِذا فَعَلْتَ عَظِيمُ (فإنَّه لَا يجوزُ إعادَةُ: وتَأْتي مِثْلَه على تَنْهَ) ؛ هَكَذَا فِي النسخِ، ونَصّ الفرّاء أَلا تَرَى أَنَّه لَا يجوزُ إعادَةُ (لَا) على (وتَأْتي مِثْلَه) ، فلذلكَ (سُمِّيَ صَرْفاً إِذْ كَانَ مَعْطوفاً وَلم يَسْتَقِمْ أَن يُعادَ فِيهِ الحادِثُ الَّذِي فِيمَا قَبْلَهُ) .
وممَّا يُسْتدركُ عَلَيْهِ:
واوُ الإعْرابِ: كَمَا فِي الأسْماءِ السِّتَّةِ.
وبمعْنَى إِذْ نَحْو: لَقِيتُكَ وأَنْتَ شابٌّ، أَي إِذْ أَنتَ، وَعَلِيهِ حملَ قَوْله تَعَالَى: {وطائِفَة قد أَهَمَّتْهم} ، أَي إِذْ طائِفَة.
وللتَّفْصِيل: كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {ومِنْكَ ومِن نُوح} ، {ونَخْلٍ ورُمَّانٍ} .
وتَدْخُلُ عَلَيْهَا أَلِفُ الاسْتِفْهامِ: كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {أَو عَجِبْتُم أَنْ جاءَكُم ذِكْرٌ مِن رَبِّكم} ، كَمَا نقولُ أَفَعَجِبْتم؛ نقلَهُ الجَوْهرِي؛ وكذلكَ قولهُ تَعَالَى: {أَو لم يَنْظُرُوا} ، {أَوَ لم يَسِيرُوا} .
وللتِّكْرار: كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى: {حافِظُوا على الصَّلواتِ والصَّلاةِ الوُسْطَى} .
وَمِنْهَا الواواتُ الَّتِي تدخُلُ فِي الأجْوبةِ فتكونُ جَواباً مَعَ الجَوابِ وَلَو حُذِفَتْ كانَ الجَوابُ مُكْتَفِياً بنَفْسِه؛ أنْشَدَ الفرَّاء:
حَتَّى إِذا قَلَتْ بُطُونَكُمُ
ورَأَيْتُمُ أَبْناءَكُم شَبُّواوقَلَبْتُمُ ظَهْرَ المِجَنِّ لَنا
إنَّ اللَّئِيمَ العاجِزُ الخَبُّأَرادَ: قَلَبْتُم. ومِثْلُه فِي الكَلامِ: لمَّا أَتانِي وأَثِبُ عَلَيْهِ، كأنَّه قَالَ: وَثَبْتُ عَلَيْهِ، وَهَذَا لَا يجوزُ إلاَّ مَعَ لمَّا وَحَتَّى إِذا.
وَمِنْهَا الواوُ الدائِمَةُ: وَهِي كلُّ واوٍ تلابسُ الجزاءَ ومَعْناها الدَّوامُ كَقَوْلِك: زُرْني وأَزُورَكَ وأَزُورُكَ، بالنَّصْبِ والرَّفْع، فالنَّصْبُ على المُجازاةِ، ومَنْ رَفَعَ فمعْناهُ زِيارَتَكَ عليَّ واجبةٌ أُدِيمُها لكَ على كلِّ حالٍ.