إِرْبٌ
Root: ارب
Full Definition
2 Intelligence and religion.
3 Deceit, guile, artifice, or fraud; syn. مَكْرٌ: so in the L and other lexicons: in the K, نُكْرٌ [i. e. “cunning,” &c., as above]: and so إِرْبَةٌ ; syn. حِيلَةٌ.
4 Wickedness, mischievousness, or malignity; hidden rancour, malevolence, or malice. [In a trad. it occurs in this sense written, in the TA, .]
def.2 See also أَرَبٌ, in four places.
def.3 Also A member; a distinct and complete part of an animal body; a limb; or such as is made complete, or entire, not wanting anything: pl. آرَابٌ and أَرْآبٌ; the latter formed by transposition. You say, قَطَّعْتُهُ إِرْبًا إِرْبًا I cut him up, member by member, or limb by limb. And السُّجُودُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ آرَابٍ or أَرْآبٍ Prostration [in prayer] is [performed] on seven members; namely, the. forehead, the hands, the knees, and the feet.
2 Also The membrum genitale; the pudendum; syn. فَرْجٌ: but some say that this signification is not known: [see أَرَبٌ:] in some copies of the K, the explanation is written فَرَحٌ, with the unpointed ح.
3 آرَابٌ [the pl.] also signifies Pieces of flesh, or of flesh-meat.
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