كثب

4 اكثبهُ ذ , and اكثب لَهُ, and مِنْهُ, (K,) and اـِلَيْهِ, and ↓ كَثَبَهُ, (TA,) and ↓ كاثبهُ, (K,) He drew near to, or approached, him or it. (K.) اـِذَا كَثَبُوكُمْ فَا@رْمُوهُمْ بِالنَّبْلِ When they draw near to you, shoot at them with arrows. (TA, from a trad.) [You say] أَكْثَبَكَ الصَّيْدُ قَا@رْمِهِ, (S, * K,) and أَكْثَبَ لَكَ, (TA,) The game hath enabled thee [ to shoot it ]; (S;) or made thee to have its كَاثِبَة within thy power, or reach; (K;) or drawn near to thee and enabled thee [ to take advantage of it ]; (TA;) [ so shoot at it ]. In some copies of the K, for اكثبك, we read كَثَبَكَ; but the former is the right reading, though the two verbs are syn. The phrase is a proverb. (TA.) -A2- اكثبهُ He gave him to drink a كُثْبَة (K) of milk. (TA.)