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صعب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 اصعب ذ : see 1. ― -b2- Said of a camel, He was, or became, صَعْب [meaning refractory, or untractable ]: (K, TA:) [and in like manner one says ↓ استصعب: (see its contr. استصحب:) and ↓ تصعّب, which is also said of a man:] and اصعب said of a camel, he was unridden, (A, TA,) and untouched by a rope. (A.) ― -b3- Also, said of a man, His camel was, or became, refractory, or untractable. (L, TA.) -A2- اصعبهُ: see 2. ― -b2- Also He left him (i. e. a camel) unridden, (S, K, TA,) and untouched by a rope, so that he became refractory, or untractable. (S, K.) [See مُصْعَبٌ]. ― -b3- And He found it (i. e. an affair, or event, S, Msb, or a thing, K) to be صَعْب [i. e. difficult, hard, &c.]; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ استصعبهُ: (Msb, K:) or both signify he saw it, or held it, to be so. (TA.) [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited voce رَيْثٌ.]

Derived headwords

اصعبverb
  1. 1.