Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَوْءَبَهُ

Root: وأب

Form: 4

Full Definition

أَوْءَبَهُIV He did to him an action of which one should be ashamed: or he made him angry: [mentioned twice in the K: once as though there were no difference of opinion respecting it:] or he turned him, or drove him, back with ignominy, from his affair, or from the object of his want: (so in the copies of the K; but in an old copy, relied upon as correct, of the Tahdheeb el-Af'ál, from his companion, عن صاحبه: TA:) as also ; meaning he turned him, or drove him, back with ignominy: or اوءبه also signifies he turned him, or drove him, back from his affair, or from the object of his want.


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