Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

عِشَارٌ مَلَابِئٌ ذ (in the CK مُلَابِئٌ) Camels near to bringing forth. (S, K.) [See عُشَرَاآءُ.]

بَيْنَهُمُ المُلْتَبِئَةُ ذ There is fellowship and confidence between them; one not concealing from another. (El-Ahmar.)

1 لَبَتَ يَدَهُ ذ , (aor. لَبُتَ , inf. n. لَبْتٌ, TK,) He twisted, or wrung, his hand, or arm. (L, K.) ― -b2- لَبَتَ فُلَانًا He struck, or beat, such a one on his chest and belly and flanks, with a staff or stick. (K, TA.)

لَبَاتَ ذ dial. of Himyer for لَا بَأْسَ. (Sh, T.)

1 لَبِثَ ذ , aor. لَبَثَ , inf. n. لَبْثٌ (which is contr. to analogy, because the inf. n. of an intrans. v. of the measure فَعِلَ is, accord. to rule, of the measure فَعَلٌ, S,) and لَبَيثٌ (agreeably with analogy, occurring in a verse of Jereer, S,) and لَبَاثٌ (S, K) and لُبْثٌ (which is the first form given by ISd) TA, [and the most common,]) and لُبَاثٌ and لَبَاثَةٌ and لَبِيثَةٌ, (K,) which are all contr. to analogy, (TA,) and لُبْثَانٌ, (ISd,) [this last, which is also contr. to analogy, is said in the TA, to be like سحبان, but this I suppose to be a mistake for سُبْحَان,] or لُبْثٌ and لَبَاثٌ are substs., (Msb,) He tarried; paused; tarried and waited or expected; was patient, and tarried and waited or expected: (S, K:) he tarried; remained; stayed; stopped; paused; (ISd, Msb;) as also ↓ تلبّث; (Msb;) بِمَكَانٍ in a place: (ISd, Msb:) or ↓ تلبّث signifies he waited; or paused; syn. تَوَقَّفَ (K) ― -b2- مالَبِثَ أَنْ فَعَلَ كَذَا وَكَذَا He delayed not, or was not slow, to do, or in doing, such and such things. (TA, and the other lexicons passim. ― -b3- اِلْبَثْ عَنْ فُلَانٍ Wait for such a one, and leave him, until thy doing so shall manifest the error of his judgement, or opinion. (A.)

2 لَبَّثَ see 4.

4 البثهُ ذ ; and ↓ لبّثهُ, inf. n. تَلْبِيثٌ; He made him to tarry; to tarry and wait, or expect; to be patient, and tarry, and wait, or expect. (S, K.)

5 تَلَبَّثَ see 1.

10 استلبثهُ ذ He deemed him, or it, slow, or tardy. (K, TA.)

لُبْثٌ ذ and ↓ لَبَاثٌ (Msb) A tarrying; a staying; a stopping: (Msb:) and ↓ لُبْثَةٌ a loitering; tarrying; staying; waiting; pausing in expectation. (K.) ― -b2- هُوَ قَلِيلُ اللَّبَاثِ, and ↓ اللُّبْثَةِ, [ He tarries, or stays, little ]. (A.) ― -b3- اَلماءُ اـِذَا طَالَ لُبْثُهُ ظَهَرَ خُبْثُهُ [ When water remains long stagnant, its corruptness, or impurity, or foulness, becomes apparent ]. (A.)

لَبِثٌ ذ : see لَابِثٌ. ― -b2- Slow; tardy; late. (Fr.)

لَبْثَةٌ ذ A single act of tarrying, staying, or stopping. (Msb.)

لُبْثَةٌ ذ : see لُبْثٌ.

لِبْثَةٌ ذ A mode, or manner, of tarrying, staying, or stopping. (Msb.)

لَبَاثٌ ذ : see لُبْثٌ ― -b2- فَرَسٌ لَبَاثٌ A slow horse: so in some copies of the K: but correctly, قَوْسٌ لَبَاثٌ, as in the L, a slow bow, accord. to AHn. (TA.)

خَبِيثٌ لَبِيثٌ نَبِيثٌ ذ are said conjointly: so in the K: or نَجِيثٌ لَبِيثٌ: so in the L. (TA.)

لَبِيثَةٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ ذ A company, or an assembly, of people of different tribes; (K;) [as also لَوِيثَةٌ].

لَابِثٌ ذ and ↓ لَبِثٌ Tarrying; tarrying and waiting, or expecting; being patient, and tarrying, and waiting, or expecting: (S, K:) the former word is the more approved. (Fr.)

1 لَبَجَ ذ He beat, struck, or smote, another with a staff, or stick: (K:) or he beat, struck, or smote, continuously, but softly. (TA.) ― -b2- لَبَجَ بِهِ الأَرْضَ, aor. لَبُجَ , He threw him down upon the ground: (S, K:) like لَبَطَ. (S.) ― -b3- لَبَجَ بِنَفْسِهِ He (a camel) fell down upon the ground. (TA.) ― -b4- لَبَجَ بِنَفْسِهِ الأَرْضَ فَنَامَ He threw himself down upon the ground and slept. (AHn.) ― -b5- لُبِجَ بِهِ, (like عُنِىَ, [pass. in form but neuter in signification,] K, inf. n., لَبْجٌ, TA,) He became prostrated, or fell down in a fit of epilepsy, syn. صُرِعَ; (S, K;) fell down from a standing posture: as also لُبِطَ بِهِ. (S.) ― -b6- لُبِجَ He (a camel, or a man,) fell down upon the ground by reason of disease or fatigue. (TA.)

لَبِيجٌ ذ A man, or a camel, falling, or fallen, down upon the ground by reason of disease or fatigue. (TA.) ― -b2- بَرْكٌ لَبِيجٌ Camels laying on their breasts with folded legs around a tent: (K:) or all the camels of the tribe so lying around the tents, as though thrown down upon the ground. (S.) ― -b3- لَبِيجٌ Remaining, staying, abiding, or dwelling. (AHn.)

لَبَخٌ ذ , (L, K,) or لَبْخٌ, (as mentioned by AHn., on the authority of another, [but see below,]) [a coll. gen. n., n. un. with ة, The persea of Theophrastus and Dioscorides; (De Sacy, “ Relation de l'Egypte par Abd-Allatif, ” in which see a full and learned disquisition respecting this tree, pp. 47 et seqq.)] described to AHn, by a man acquainted with it, as growing at Ansinè, in Upper Egypt, as a kind of large tree, resembling the دُلْب [or plane-tree ], having a green fruit, resembling the date, very sweet, but disagreeable, excellent for pain in the teeth: when it is sawn, it [meaning the saw-dust] makes blood to flow from the nose of him who saws it: it is sawn into planks, and a plank of it obtains the price of fifty deenárs: it is used in the building of ships: they assert that if two planks of it be strongly attached together, and put in water for a year, they unite, and form one plank: in the T it is not said that they are put in water for a year, nor for less, nor for more: some assert that this tree, in Persia, killed; but when transplanted to Egypt, it became such that [ the fruit of ] it was eaten, without injuring: Ibn-Beytár mentions it. (L, and parts also in the K.) The n. un. is also explained as the name of a certain great tree, like the أَثْأَبَة, or greater, the leaves of which resemble those of the walnut-tree (الجَوْز), having a fruit like that of the حَمَاط, bitter in taste, which, when eaten, excites thirst; and when water is drunk upon it, inflates the belly: it is one of the trees of the mountains. (AHn, L.) [In a verse cited by AHn, the coll. appellation of this latter tree is read لَبَخ, with fet-h to the ل and ب.] [The name of لَبَخ is now given in Egypt to a kind of acacia; the mimosa lebbeck of Linnæus: and لَبَخُ الجَبَل, to the menispermum leæba of Delile; the leæba of Forskal. See also لُبَاجٌ.]

لُبَاخٌ ذ : see لُبَاخِيَّةٌ.

لُبُوخٌ ذ Fleshiness of the body. (K.)

لَبِيخٌ ذ A fleshy man. (L, K.)

لُبَاخِيَّةٌ ذ A fleshy woman: (L, K:) bulky, or corpulent: tall, and large in body: (L:) perfect [ in body or make ]: as though it were a rel. n. from ↓ اللُّبَاخ, [which is app. a word of no meaning; or perhaps, but this I think improbable, another name of the great tree called لَبْخ, or لَبَخ, or the name of a place]. (S, L.)

1 لَبِدَ ذ , aor. لَبَدَ , inf. n. لَبَدٌ, It (a thing) stuck, clave, or adhered. (Msb.) ― -b2- لَبَدَ بِالأَرْضِ, aor, لَبُدَ , inf. n. لُبُودٌ; (S, L;) and بِهَا ↓ البد; (L;) and بِهَا ↓ تلبّد; (S;) It (a thing) stuck, clave, or adhered, to the ground. (S, L.) ― -b3- بِالأَرْضِ ↓ تلبّد He (a bird) lay upon his breast, cleaving to the ground. (S, L, K.) ― -b4- (tropical:) He clave to the ground, concealing his person. (A.) ― -b5- Hence the proverb تَصَيَّدِى ↓ تَلَبَّدِى, [for تَتَصَيَّدِى, (tropical:) Cleave thou (addressed to a female) to the ground: thou wilt take, or catch, or snare, or entrap, game ]. (A.) ― -b6- Hence also, ↓ تلبّد (tropical:) He remained fixed, or steady, and looked, or considered. (A.) ― -b7- لَبَدَ بِالمَكَانِ, (L, K, *) aor. لَبُدَ , inf. n. لُبُودٌ; and لَبِدَ, aor. لَبَدَ , inf. n. لَبَدٌ; (L, K;) and ↓ البد; (S, L, K;;) (tropical:) He remained, continued, stayed, abode, or dwelt, in the place; (S, L, K; *) and clave to it. (L, K. *) ― -b8- لَبَدَ عَلَى عَصَاهُ, inf. n. لُبُودٌ, (assumed tropical:) He (a pastor) leaned upon his staff, remaining fixed to his place. (L.) ― -b9- لَبِدَ, aor. لَبَدَ , (S, L,) inf. n. لَبَدٌ, (S, L, K,) He (a camel) became choked by eating much of the plant called صِلِّيَان, suffering a contortion in the [ part of the chest called ] حَيْزُوم and in the [ part of the throat called ] غَلْصَمَة: (ISk, S, L, K: *) or had a complaint of the belly from eating of the قَتَاد [or tragacantha ]. (AHn, L.) ― -b10- See 4.

2 لبّدهُ ذ , inf. n. تَلْبِيدٌ, He stuck it, one part upon another, so that it became like لِبْد [or felt ]. (Msb.) ― -b2- لبّد الصُّوفَ He made the wool into لِبْد [i. e., a compact and coherent mass; or felt ]. (A.) [And He, or it, rendered the wool coherent, compact, or matted. ] ― -b3- لبّد الأَرْضَ, (inf. n. تَلْبِيدٌ, L,) It (rain, S, A, or a scanty rain, L,) rendered the ground compact, so that the feet did not sink in it. (S, * A, * L.) ― -b4- لبّد, (L,) or لبّد شَعَرَهُ, (L, Msb,) inf. n. تَلْبِيدٌ, (S, L, Msb,) He (a pilgrim, S, L, Msb, in the state of اـِحْرَام, S, L,) put upon his head some gum, (A 'Obeyd, S, L, K,) or خِطْمِىّ or the like, (Msb,) or honey, (A 'Obeyd, L,) or something glutinous, (L,) in order that his hair might become compacted together, (A 'Obeyd, S, L, Msb, K,) to preserve it in the state in which it was, (S, * L,) lest it should become shaggy, or dishevelled, and frowzy, or dusty, (S, L, Msb,) or lousy, (A 'Obeyd, L,) during the state of احرام. (S, L.) The Arabs in the time of paganism used to do thus when they did not desire to shave their heads during the pilgrimage. Some say, that it signifies He shaved the whole of his hair. (L.) -A2- لبّد عَجَاجَتَهُ: see art. عج.

4 أَلْبَدَ : see 1. ― -b2- البد شَيْئًا بِشَىْءٍ He stuck a thing to a thing; (K;) as also لَبَدَهُ, inf. n. لَبْدٌ: (TA:) or he stuck a thing firmly to a thing. (L.) ― -b3- He put the milking-vessel close to the udder [lit., stuck it to the udder ] in order that there might be no froth to the milk. (TA, art. نفج.) ― -b4- البد He (a camel) struck his hinder parts with his tail, having befouled it with his thin dung and his urine, and so made these to form a compact crust upon those parts. (S, L.) ― -b5- البد بَصَرُهُ (assumed tropical:) His sight, or eye, (meaning that of a person praying,) remained fixed upon the place of prostration. (K.) ― -b6- البد (tropical:) He lowered, or stooped, his head, in entering (A, K) a door. (A.) -A2- البد السَّرْجَ; (S, IKtt, K;) and ↓ لَبَدَهُ, inf. n. لَبْدٌ; (IKtt;) He made for the saddle a لِبْد [or cloth of felt to place beneath it ]: (S, IKtt, K:) and in like manner, البد الخُفَّ, and ↓ لَبَدَهُ, he made a لِبْد [or lining of felt? ] for the boots. (IKtt.) ― -b2- البد الفَرَسَ He bound upon the horse a لِبْد [or saddle cloth, or covering of felt ]: (S, K:) or put it upon his back. (A.) ― -b3- البدتِ الاـِبِلُ (assumed tropical:) The camels put forth their soft hair (S, L, K) and their colours, (S, L,) and assumed a goodly appearance, (L,) and began to grow fat, (S, L, K,) by reason of the [ season, or pasture, called ] رَبِيع: (S, L:) as though they put on أَلْبَاد [or felt coverings]. (L.) ― -b4- البد القِرْبَةَ He put the water-skin into a جُوَالِق [or sack ]: (K:) or into a لَبِيد, or small جوالق: (S:) the لَبِيد is a لِبْد [or covering of felt ] which is sewed upon it. (L.)

5 تَلَبَّدَ see 1. ― -b2- تلبد It (wool, A, L, K, and the like, K, as common hair, A, L, and the soft hair of camels or the like, L,) became commingled, and compacted together, or matted, coherent; (S, * A, * L, K;) as also ↓ التبد. (L.) [Both are also said of dung, and of a mixture of dung and urine, meaning It caked, or became compacted, upon the ground &c.] ― -b3- It (the ground, L, or the dust, or the sand, A,) became compact, so that the feet did not sink in it, by reason of rain. (S, * A, * L.) ― -b4- [Also, app., He shrank, by reason of fear: see هَبِيتٌ: in the present day it is used to signify he hid, or contracted, himself, by reason of fear, or for the purpose of practising some act of guile. ]

8 التبدت الشَّجَرَةُ ذ The tree became dense, or abundant, in its foliage. (S, L, K.) ― -b2- التبد الوَرَقُ The leaves became commingled, and compacted together. (S, L, K.) See 5.

لِبْدٌ ذ Hair or wool commingled, and compacted together, or coherent; [ felt; ] (L, Msb, K;) as also ↓ لِبْدَةٌ; (L, K;) or this is a more particular term; [meaning a portion of such hair or wool; a piece of felt; ] (S, Msb;) and ↓ لُبْدَةٌ: (L, K:) pl. of لِبْدٌ, (or of لبدة, as though the ة were imagined to be elided, M,) لُبُودٌ (S, A, L, K) and أَلْبَادٌ. (L, K.) ― -b2- لِبْدٌ A well-known kind of carpet [ and cloth, made of felt ]. (L, K.) ― -b3- لِبْدٌ [or لِبْدَةٌ, (S, art. وثر,)] What is beneath the saddle; [ a saddle-cloth; a housing; a cloth of felt, which is placed beneath the saddle, and also used as a covering without the saddle ]. (S, * L, * K.)

لَبَدٌ ذ Wool. (S, K.) Hence the saying مَا لَهُ سَبَدٌ وَلَا لَبَدٌ He has neither hair nor wool: (S:) or, neither what has hair nor what has wool: or, neither little nor much: (TA:) or, he has not anything: (S:) for the wealth of the Arabs consisted of horses, camels, sheep and goats, and cows; and all of these are included in this saying (TA.) See also سَبَدٌ.

لبد ذ [app. لَبِدٌ] Compact, or cohering, ground, upon which one may walk, or journey, quickly. (L.)

لَبِدٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, L, K,) the former of which is preferable, accord. to A'Obeyd, (S,) (tropical:) One who does not travel, (S, L,) nor quit his abode, (S, * L, K,) or place, (A,) nor seek sustenance. (L, K.) Hence, (A,) the last of Lukmán's [seven] vultures [with whose life his own was to terminate] was called ↓ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, L, K,) because he thought that is would not go away nor die. (L.) Thus applied, it is perfectly decl., because it is a word not made to deviate from its original form. (S, L.) ― -b2- Also ↓ لُبَدٌ A man who does not quit his camel's saddle. (L.)

لُبَدٌ ذ (S, L) and لِبَدٌ, which is pl. of ↓ لِبْدَةٌ, (L,) and ↓ لُبَّدَى, (L, K,) and ↓ لِبْدَةٌ, and ↓ لُبْدَةٌ, (L,) (tropical:) A number of men collected together, (S, L, K,) and [ as it were ] compacted, one upon another: so the first and second of these words, accord. to different readings, signify in the Kur., lxxii., 19: (L:) or لِبَدٌ signifies collected together like locusts, (T, L,) which are app. thus called as being likened to a congregation of men; (ISd, L;) pl. of لِبْدَةٌ, (L,) which signifies a locust. (K.) [See a verse cited voce صَابَ.] ― -b2- مَالٌ لُبَدٌ, (S, A, K, &c.,) and ↓ لُبَّدٌ, (Aboo-Jaafar, K,) and ↓ لُبُدٌ, (El-Hasan and Mujáhid,) and ↓ لُبْدٌ, (Mujáhid,) (tropical:) Much wealth; (S, K, &c.;) so in the Kur., xc., 6; (S, TA;) as also ↓ لَابِدٌ: (K:) or wealth so abundant that one fears not its coming to an end: (A, L:) some say that لُبَدٌ is a pl., and that its sing. is لُبْدَةٌ: others, that it is sing., like قُثَمٌ and حُصَمٌ: أَمْوَالٌ and مَالٌ are sometimes used in the same sense: لُبَّدٌ seems to be pl. of لَابِدٌ: (L:) so is لُبُدٌ, and so لُبْدٌ: (El-Basáïr:) also, مال لِبَدٌ, which is accord. to the reading of Zeyd Ibn-'Alee and Ibn-'Omeyr and 'Ásim, signifies collected wealth; لِبَدٌ being pl. of لِبْدَةٌ. (TA.) -A2- See لُبَدٌ.

لِبْدَةٌ ذ (tropical:) The mass of hair between the shoulderblades of the lion, (S, A, K,) intermingled, and compacted together: (A:) and the like upon a camel's hump: (T, L:) pl. لِبَدٌ. (S.) Hence the proverb, هُوَ أَمْنَعُ مِنْ لِبْدَةِ الأَسَدِ [ He, or it, is more unapproachable, or inaccessible, than the mass of hair between the shoulder-blades of the lion ]. (S, A.) Hence also ذُو لِبْدَةٍ is an appel-lation of the lion; (T, S, A, K;) and so ذُو لِبَدٍ. (T, A,) ― -b2- See لِبْدٌ and لُبَدٌ.

لُبْدَةٌ ذ : see لُبَدٌ.

نَاقَةٌ لَبِدَةٌ ذ A she-camel choked by eating much of the plant called صِلِّيَان: pl. لَبَادَى: [see لَبِدَ:] (S:) or اـِبِلٌ لَبِدَةٌ, and لَبَادَى, camels having a complaint of the belly from eating of the قَتَاد [or tragacantha ]: and in like manner you say ناقة لَبِدَةٌ. (AHn, L.)

لَبِيدٌ ذ A جُوَالِق [or sack ]: (K:) or a small جوالق: (S, IKtt, L:) or a large جوالق: a لِبْد [or covering of felt ] which is sewed upon a قِرْبَة [or water-skin ]. (L.) ― -b2- Also, (K,) or لَبِيدَةٌ, (L,) A [ fodder-bag of the kind called ] مِخْلَاة. (L, K.)

لَبَّادٌ ذ A maker, or manufacturer, of لِبْد [i. e., hair or wool commingled, and compacted together; or felt ]. (K.)

لُبَّادَةٌ ذ A garment of felt (مِنْ لِبْد, S, or لُبُود, L, K,) worn on account of rain, (S, L, Msb, K,) to protect one therefrom: (TA:) a garment of the kind called قَبَاآء. (L.)

لُبَّادَى ذ : see لُبَدٌ.

لَابِدٌ ذ see لُبَدٌ. ― -b2- اللَّابِدُ, and ↓ المُلْبَدُ, and أَبُو لُبَدٍ, and أَبُو لِبَدٍ, (tropical:) The lion. (K.)

ملْبَدٌ ذ A horse having a لِبْد [or saddle-cloth, or covering of felt ] bound upon him. (S.) ― -b2- See اللَابِدُ, and مُلْبِدٌ.

مُلْبِدٌ ذ A camel (L, K) or stallion-camel, (T, L,) striking his thighs with his tail, (L, K,) and making his dung to stick to them. (L.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A man cleaving to the ground, and making himself inconspicuous: (TA:) (tropical:) a man cleaving to the ground by reason of poverty. (A.) ― -b3- مُلْبِدٌ, or ↓ مُلْبَدٌ, applied to a tank, or cistern: see مُبْلِدٌ.

مُلَبِّدٌ ذ Scanty rain [ that renders the soft ground compact, so that the feet do not sink in it ]. (L.)

خُفٌّ مُلَبَّدٌ ذ , and ↓ مَلْبُودٌ, A pair of boots made of لِبْد [or felt ]. (A.) See also 4.

مَلْبُودٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A he-goat compact in flesh. (L.) ― -b2- See preceding paragraph.

1 لَبِسَ الثَّوْبَ ذ , aor. لَبَسَ , inf. n. لُبْسٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and لِبَاسٌ, (M,) [ He put on, or wore, the garment. ] You also say, اِلْبَسْ عَلَيْكَ ثَوْبَكَ [ Put on thee thy garment ]. (M.) And لَبِسَ السِّلَاحَ [ He wore, or put on, the weapon, or weapons ]. (S, K, in art. سلح, &c.) [See also 5.] ― -b2- لَبِسَ الحَيَاآءَ لِبَاسًا (assumed tropical:) [ He put on pudency as a garment; ] he protected himself by pudency. (IKtt.) ― -b3- لَبِسَ لَهُ أُذُنَهُ (tropical:) He feigned himself inattentive to him, or heedless of him. (M. [See also أُذُنٌ.]) And لَبِسْتُ عَلَى كَذَا أَذُنِى (tropical:) I was silent respecting such a thing, and feigned myself deaf to it. (A.) [ Contr. of نَشَرْتُ لَهُ أُذُنِى.] ― -b4- لَبِسَ ا@مْرَأَةً (tropical:) He had the enjoyment of a woman, or wife, [meaning, of her converse and services, ] for a long time. (K, TA.) And لَبِسَ فُلَانَةَ عُمْرَهُ (tropical:) He had such a girl, or woman, with him during the whole period of his youth. (K, TA.) And لَبِسَ الناسَ (tropical:) He lived with the people. (A.) And لَبِسَ قَوْمًا (tropical:) He lived, or enjoyed, a period of time, or a long period of time, (دَهْرًا,) with the people. (K, * TA.) [And لَبِسَ أَبَاهُ, which is explained in the TA by مَلَّهُ, which I also find in a copy of the A thought to have been used by the author of the TA: but, from what follows, it appears to me that the right reading is مُلِّيَهُ, and the meaning, (tropical:) He enjoyed long life with his father: or he lived the period that his father lived: or he lived with his father all his (the latter's) life: see a verse of Ibn-Ahmar cited voce أَبْلَى in art. بلو. See also a verse of El-'Ajjáj cited voce خَلَجَ.] You say also, لَبِسْتُ فُلَانًا (tropical:) I took, or chose, such a one particularly, or specially, as a friend or companion. (Er-Rághib in TA art. بطن.) And اِلْبَسِ النَّاسَ عَلَى قَدْرِ أَخْلَاقهِمِْ (tropical:) Consort thou with men [ according to their natural dispositions ]. (A, TA.) And لَبِسْتُ فُلَانًا عَلَى مَا فِيهِ (tropical:) I tolerated such a one, and accepted him, [ and continued to associate with him, notwithstanding what was in him. ] (A, TA.) -A2- لَبَسَ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرَ, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) aor. لَبِسَ , (S, M, Msb, K,) inf. n. لَبْسٌ, (S, M, Msb,) He made, or rendered, the thing, or case, or affair, confused to him: (S, M, Msb, K:) and ↓ لبّسهُ, (A, Msb,) inf. n. تَلْبِيسٌ, (S, K,) signifies the same in an intensive degree: (S, * Msb, K: *) or the former signifies either as above, or he concealed the thing, or case, or affair, from him: (R, MF:) and [in like manner] تَلْبِيسٌ is syn. with تَدْلِيسٌ, (K,) or is similar thereto: (S:) and the former also signifies he made, or rendered, the thing, or case, or affair, dubious to him; (TA;) [as also ↓ لبّسهُ: both signify he involved the thing, or case, or affair, in confusion, or doubt, to him: and he concealed, disguised, or cloaked, it to him. ] It is said in the Kur., [vi. 9,] وَلَلَبَسْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مَا يَلْبِسُونَ And we would make confused to them what they make confused: (S, Msb:) or make dubious to them what they make dubious, and would make them to err like as they have made to err. (TA.) And again, [ii. 39,] وَلَا تَلْبِسُوا ا@لْحَقَّ بِا@لْباطِلِ And do not ye confound the truth with falsity. (Ibn- 'Arafeh.) And again, [vi. 82,] وَلَمْ يَلْبِسُوا اـِيمَانَهُمْ بِظُلْمٍ And have not mixed up their belief with polytheism. (TA.) And again, [vi. 65,] أَوْ يَلْبِسَكُمْ شِيَعًا Or to confuse your case, [ making you to be of different parties, ] with the confusion of discordance and of agreement. (TA.) You say also, لَبَسَنِى, meaning, He, or it, made me to become confounded, or in doubt, (جَعَلَنِى أَلْتَبِسُ,) respecting his case, or affair. (TA, from a trad.)

2 لَبَّسَ see 4: ― -b2- and see also لَبَسَ, in three places. [تَلْبِيسٌ, alone, often signifies The involving a thing in confusion, or doubt: and the practising concealment, or disguise. ] -A2- See also 8.