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سبع

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سِبْعٌ ذ A certain ظِمْء of the أَظْمَاآء of camels; (T, S, K;) i. e. their coming to the water on the seventh day [ counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first ]; (K;) or [in other words, which have virtually the same meaning,] their remaining in their places of pasturing five complete days, and coming to the water on the sixth day, not reckoning the day of the [ next preceding ] return from the water. (Az, TA.) You say, وَرَدَتْ اـِبْلُهُ سِبْعًا His camels came to the water &c. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also The seventh young one, or offspring. (A in art. ثلث.)

Derived headwords

سِبْعٌ
  1. 1.
وَرَدَتْ اـِبْلُهُ سِبْعًا