عتب

2 تَعْتِيبٌ ذ The making an عَتَبَة [meaning a threshold ]. (K, TA.) تَعْتِيبُ البَابِ means The making a threshold (عَتَبَة) to the door. (TA.) ― -b2- [And The making an عَتَبَة (meaning a step ):] or so تَعْتِيبُ عَتَبَةٍ.] You say, عَتِّبْ لِى عَتَبَةً فِى هٰذَا المَوْضِعِ [ Make thou for me a step in this place ] when you desire to ascend thereby to a place. (O, TA.) ― -b3- And The drawing together the حُجْزَة [of the drawers, or trousers, i. e. the tuck, or doubled upper border, through which passes the waist-band ], and folding it, in front: [app. meaning the turning up a portion, drawn together in front, inside the band, to prepare for some active employment:] (IAth, O, K, TA:) you say, عَتَّبَ سَرَاوِيلَهُ فَتَشَمَّرَ [ He drew together the tuck of his drawers, or trousers, &c., and prepared himself for active employment ]: (O and TA, from a trad.:) and the part so drawn together &c. is called the ثُبْنَة. (IAar, O.) -A2- See also أُعْتِبَ, said of a bone. -A3- عتّب is also said of a man as meaning He was, or became, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward: in which sense, its ب is thought by ISd to be a substitute for the م in عَتَّمَ. (TA.)