ربص

رُبْصَةٌ ذ An expecting; an awaiting; a waiting: (AHát, S, A, Msb, K:) a tarrying; or tarrying in expectation. (M.) You say, لِى فِى مَتَاعِى رُبْصَةٌ [ I have to endure an expecting, &c., with respect to my goods, or commodities; app. meaning, I have to wait for a favourable opportunity to sell them]. (S, A.) And لِى بِالبَصْرَةِ رُبْصَةٌ [ I have to endure an expecting, or a waiting, in ElBasrah ]. (AHát, A.) And لِى عَلَى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ رُبْصَةٌ [ I have to endure a tarrying, or a tarrying in expectation, for, or on account of, this thing, or affair ]. (M.) ― -b2- Also The period that is assigned to a husband when he has been pronounced incapable of sexual intercourse with his wife; so that if he go in to her [ it is well with him, and he remains her husband ]; but if not, a separation is made between them: so in the saying, أَقَامَتِ ا@لْمَرْأَةُ رُبْصَتَهَا فِى بَيْتِ زَوْجِهَا [ The woman abode during the period so assigned to her husband in the house, or tent, of her husband ]. (ISk, K.) [In like manner رُبْضَةٌ (perhaps a mistranscription) is explained in the A and TA in art. ربض: and the period is there said to be a year.]