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حسب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَحْسَبُ ذ , (S, K,) fem. حَسْبَاآءُ, (TA,) A camel of a colour in which are whiteness and redness (S, K, TA) and blackness: (TA:) a man in the hair of whose head is [a reddish colour such as is termed] شُقْرَة: (S, K:) a man, (K,) and a camel, (TA,) whose skin has become white by reason of disease, and whose hair is infected [and turned red] in consequence thereof, so that he has become white and red: (K:) accord. to Sh, that has no [distinct] colour; of whom, or of which, one says, I think so, and I think so. (TA. [The latter clause of this explanation (in the TA الذى يقال احسب كذا و احسب كذا) I have rendered conjecturally; supposing يقال to have been omitted by a copyist, after يقال,]) ― -b2- Also A leper. (Lth, T, K.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) A mean, avaricious, man. (S, TA.)

Derived headwords

أَحْسَبُ
  1. 1.
الذى يقال احسب
كذا و احسب كذا