عتب

عَتَبٌ ذ : see عَتَبَةٌ, in five places. ― -b2- Also The دَسْتَانَات [or frets ] (O, TA) that are bound upon the عَمُود [meaning neck ] (O) of a lute: (O, TA:) [app. as likened to a series of steps:] or the transverse pieces of wood upon the face of a lute, [i. e., app., upon the face of the neck, ] from which the chords are extended to the extremity of the lute: (O, K, TA:) or, accord. to IAar, the thing [app. the small ridge at the angle of the neck ] upon which are [or lie ] the extremities of the chords, in the fore part, of the lute. (TA.) [See an engraving and a description of a lute in my work on the Modern Egyptians.] ― -b3- And The places of ascent of mountains, and of rugged and hard pieces of ground. (TA.) ― -b4- And Ruggedness of ground. (O, K.) ― -b5- And The space between two mountains. (TA.) ― -b6- And The space between the fore finger and middle finger [ when they are extended apart ]: (Msb in art. شبر, and K:) or the space between the middle finger and third finger: (S, O, K:) or the [ space that is measured by ] placing the four fingers close together. (Msb ubi suprà.) [See also بُصْمٌ, and رَتَبٌ.] ― -b7- Also A bending at the ضَرِيبَة [or part with which one strikes ], and a bluntness, of a sword. (TA.) One says, مَا فِى طَاعَةِ فُلَانٍ عَتَبٌ (assumed tropical:) There is not in the obedience of such a one any bending nor a recoiling. (TA.) ― -b8- And A defect in a bone, when it has not been well set, after a fracture, and there remains a constant swelling in it, or a lameness. (TA.) ― -b9- And An unsoundness (O, K, TA) in an animal's leg, (O, TA,) and (assumed tropical:) in an affair. (TA.) One says, مَا فِى مَوَدَّتِهِ عَتَبٌ (assumed tropical:) There is not in his love, or affection, anything mingling with it that vitiates it, impairs it, or renders it unsound. (TA.)