ارب

اـِرْبٌ أراب أرب أربى اـرب ارب راب رب ربا ربى آرب Cunning, intelligence with craft and forecast, or simply intelligence, excellence of judgment, sagacity, (T, S, M, L, K,) and knowledge in affairs; (M, L;) as also ↓ اـِرْبَةٌ and ↓ أُرْبَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ أَرَبٌ, (M, A,) or ↓ أَرْبٌ. (L.) You say, هُوَ ذُو اـِرْبٍ [ He is a possessor of cunning, or intelligence, &c.]. (S.) ― -b2- Intelligence and religion. (Th, M, K.) ― -b3- Deceit, guile, artifice, or fraud; syn. مَكْرٌ: so in the L and other lexicons: in the K, نُكْرٌ [i. e. “cunning,” &c., as above]: (TA:) and so ↓ اـِرْبَةٌ; syn. حِيلَةٌ. (K.) ― -b4- Wickedness, mischievousness, or malignity; hidden rancour, malevolence, or malice. (K, TA.) [In a trad. it occurs in this sense written, in the TA, ↓ أَرْب.] -A2- See also أَرَبٌ, in four places. -A3- Also A member; a distinct and complete part of an animal body; a limb; (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) or such as is made complete, or entire, not wanting anything: (M:) pl. اآرَابٌ (S, M, Mgh, Msb) and أَرْاآبٌ; (S, Mgh;) the latter formed by transposition. (Mgh.) You say, قَطَّعْتُهُ اـِرْبًا اـِرْبًا I cut him up, member by member, or limb by limb. (TA.) And السُّجُودُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ اآرَابٍ or أَرْاآبٍ Prostration [in prayer] is [performed] on seven members; (S, Mgh;) namely, the. forehead, the hands, the knees, and the feet. (TA.) ― -b2- Also The membrum genitale; the pudendum; syn. فَرْجٌ: (M, K:) but some say that this signification is not known: [see أَرَبٌ:] in some copies of the K, the explanation is written فَرَحٌ, with the unpointed ح. (TA.) ― -b3- اآرَابٌ [the pl.] also signifies Pieces of flesh, or of flesh-meat. (M.)