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عصب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 عصّب ذ , (S, A, O, &c.,) inf. n. تَعْصِيبٌ, (S, A, O,) [ He bound, or wound round, a thing with several circumvolutions: ] he bound [or wound round ] a man's head with a turban, fillet, bandage, or the like; (S, * O, * Msb, K, * TA;) as also ↓ عَصَبَ, inf. n. عَصْبٌ: (MA:) and he bound a broken limb, or a wound, with a piece of rag or a bandage. (L, TA.) He turbaned a man; attired him with a turban. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (A, O,) تَعْصِيبٌ signifies (tropical:) [The crowning a man: (see the pass. part. n.:)] the making a man a chief: (A, O, K, TA:) for turbans are the crowns of the Arabs: (O:) when a man's people made him a chief, they bound his head with a turban: (A, TA:) as kings wore crowns, so the chiefs of the Arabs wore red turbans: (L, TA:) there were brought to the desert, from Haráh (هَرَاة), red turbans, which the nobles among the Arabs wore. (Az, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence also,] عصّبهُ بِالسَّيْفِ i. q. عَمَّمَهُ بِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ He cut, or wounded, him in the place of the turban, with the sword ]. (A, TA.) ― -b4- And عصّبهُ, inf. n. as above, He, or it, [ caused him to bind his waist by reason of hunger: (see the pass. part. n.:) and hence,] made him to hunger: (K:) and عَصَّبَتْهُمُ السِّنُونَ The years of drought, or sterility, made them to hunger: (TA:) or عصّبتهُ السِّنُونَ The years of drought, or sterility, ate up his property, or cattle. (A 'Obeyd, S, O.) And It [i. e. drought or the like] destroyed him: (K:) and عصّب الدَّهْرُ مَالَهُ Adverse fortune destroyed his cattle, or camels &c. (TA.) ― -b5- And He called him مُعَصَّب [meaning poor ]: so says IAar; and he cites as an ex., يُدْعَى المُعَصَّبَ مَنْ قَلَّتْ حَلُوبَتُهُ وَهَلْ يُعَصَّبُ مَاضِى الهَمِّ مِقْدَامُ [ He is called the poor, whose milch-cattle have become few: but should one whose purpose is effectual, one of great boldness, be called poor? ]. (TA.) ― -b6- الذَّكَرُ يُعَصِّبُ الأُنْثَى means The male makes the female to be such as is termed عَصَبَةٌ [by his being consociated with her as such]. (Mgh.)

Derived headwords

عصّبverb
  1. 1.
عصّبهُ بِالسَّيْفِ
عَمَّمَهُ بِهِ
عَصَّبَتْهُمُ السِّنُونَ
عصّبتهُ السِّنُونَ
عصّب الدَّهْرُ مَالَهُ
يُدْعَى المُعَصَّبَ مَنْ قَلَّتْ حَلُوبَتُهُ
وَهَلْ يُعَصَّبُ مَاضِى الهَمِّ مِقْدَامُ
الذَّكَرُ يُعَصِّبُ الأُنْثَى