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الهبيت

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes states of fear, weakness, and mental incapacitation. It also encompasses actions related to striking, lowering, and descending.

Derived headwords

الهبيتadjective
  1. 1.
    Cowardly, mentally incapacitatedboth

    Describing someone who is cowardly and has lost their mind or senses due to fear or shock.

المهبوتadjective
  1. 1.
    Cowardly, mentally incapacitatedclassical

    Similar to الهبيت, referring to someone who is cowardly and mentally overwhelmed.

هَبِتَverb
  1. 1.
    To be cowardlyclassical

    To become cowardly or to be in a state of fear.

  2. 2.
    To be mentally incapacitatedclassical

    To lose one's mind or senses, often due to extreme fear.

هَبَتَهُverb
  1. 1.
    To strike himclassical

    To hit or strike someone.

  2. 2.
    To lower himclassical

    To cause someone or something to descend or be lowered.

  3. 3.
    To humble himclassical

    To bring someone down, to humble them.

  4. 4.
    To tread upon himclassical

    To step on or tread upon someone or something.

الهَبْتَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Weaknessclassical

    A state of weakness or feebleness.

Parallel reading

الهبيت: الجبان الذاهب العقل، كالمهبوت.
Al-Habīt: the coward, the one whose mind has gone, like al-Mahbūt.
وقد هبت، كعني.
And he became cowardly, as in 'anī.
وهبته يهبته: ضربه، وهبطه، وطأطأه، وحطه.
And habatahu yahbituhu: to strike him, to lower him, to make him stoop, and to bring him down.
والهبتة: الضعف.
And al-Habtah: weakness.