Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

إِبْسَالٌ

Root: بسل

Form: 4

Full Definition

إِبْسَالٌIV [Verbal.Noun of ابسل] i. q. بَسْلٌ as explained in the first sentence of this art. ; i. e., The act of preventing, hindering, withholding, debarring,

def.2 ابسلهُ He pledged, or gave in pledge, him, or it, لِكَذَا [and بِكَذَا, as will be shown below, both meaning for such a thing]: and he gave in exchange, or as an equivalent, him, or it, لِكَذَا [and app. بِكَذَا also, as above, for such a thing]; syn. عَرَّضَهُ: and he gave him up, delivered him, delivered him over, or consigned him, to destruction, or to punishment. 'Owf Ibn-El-Ahwas says, وَإِبْسَالِي بَنِىَّ بِغَيْرِجُرْمٍ بَعَوْنَاهُ وَ لَا بِدَمٍ مُرَاقِ [And my giving in pledge, or as an equivalent, or giving up to destruction, my sons, not for a crime that we have committed, nor for blood that has been shed by us]: for he had given his sons in pledge for others, seeking peace, or reconciliation. أَنْ تُبْسَلَ بِمَا كَسَبَتْ, in the Kur [vi. 69], means Lest a soul should be given up, or delivered, &c., to destruction, or to punishment, for that which it hath done, of evil: or be given in pledge. And أُولٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ أُبْسِلُوا بِمَا كَسَبُوا, in the same [ubi suprà], means, in like manner, Those who are given up, or delivered, &c., for their sins: or who are given in pledge: or are destroyed: or, as Mujáhid says, are disgraced, or put to shame, by the exposure of their sins: or, as Katádeh says, are imprisoned.
2 ابسلهُ لِعَمَلِهِ and بِعَمَلِهِ He left him to his work, not interfering with him therein.
3 ابسل نَفْسَهُ لِلْمَوْتِ, as also [alone], , and تبسّل , and , [which last may be either بَسَلَ or بَسُلَ, or perhaps it is a mistranscription for أَبْسَلَ,] He disposed and subjected his mind, or himself, to death, and felt certain, or sure, of it: and in like manner, لِلضَّرْبِ [to beating, i. e., to being beaten]: and لِلْمَوْتِ He submitted himself to death: and He threw himself into war, or battle, or fight, desiring to slay or be slain, inevitably.

def.3 مَا أَبْسَلَهُ How courageous, or stronghearted, is he, on the occasion of war, or fight!


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