أوّب
Root: اوب
Form: 2
Full Definition
أوّبII
: see 1, first sentence:
2 and the same again, near the end.
3 He repeated, or echoed, the praises of God: thus in the saying [in the Kur xxxiv. 10], يَا جِبَالُ أَوِّبِى مَعَهُ 0 mountains, repeat ye, or echo ye, the praises of God with him; [i. e., with David;] but some read معه, meaning return ye with him in praising as often as he returneth therein: or, accord. to the former reading, the meaning is, 0 mountains, labour ye with him in praising God all the day, until the night:
4 أوّب, Verbal.Noun تَأْوِيبٌ, also signifies It journeyed by day: or all the day, to the night, without alighting to rest: تأويب being the same kind of day-journeying as إِسْآدٌ is of night-journeying: or he journeyed all the day, and alighted at night: or he journeyed by night: or تأويب and signify the vying, one with another, of travellingcamels, in pace, or going. A poet says,
2 and the same again, near the end.
3 He repeated, or echoed, the praises of God: thus in the saying [in the Kur xxxiv. 10], يَا جِبَالُ أَوِّبِى مَعَهُ 0 mountains, repeat ye, or echo ye, the praises of God with him; [i. e., with David;] but some read معه, meaning return ye with him in praising as often as he returneth therein: or, accord. to the former reading, the meaning is, 0 mountains, labour ye with him in praising God all the day, until the night:
4 أوّب, Verbal.Noun تَأْوِيبٌ, also signifies It journeyed by day: or all the day, to the night, without alighting to rest: تأويب being the same kind of day-journeying as إِسْآدٌ is of night-journeying: or he journeyed all the day, and alighted at night: or he journeyed by night: or تأويب and signify the vying, one with another, of travellingcamels, in pace, or going. A poet says,
[And if thou, or they, vie with him in pace, or going, thou wilt, or they will, find him to be one that overcomes therein]: so as related by Lth: but as related by others, تُؤَوِّبْهُ.وَإِنْ تَجِدْهُ
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