اترب
Root: ترب
Form: 4
Full Definition
اتربIV
: see 1, in three places.
def.2 اتربهُ He put dust, or earth, upon it, namely, a thing; as also ترّبهُ : or the latter, Verbal.Noun تَتْرِيبٌ, signifies he defiled it, or soiled it, with dust, or earth: or you say, , or تَرَبَهُ بِالتُّرَابِ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun تَرْبٌ, [meaning he sprinkled it with dust,] namely, a writing [for the purpose of drying up the ink], or a paper; and ترّبهُ , with teshdeed, [meaning he sprinkled much dust upon it; or sprinkled it much with dust;] namely, a writing; the latter having an intensive signification: or ↓ the former of the last two verbs is used in speaking of anything that is improved, or put into a right or proper state [by means of dust or earth]; and ↓ the latter of them, in speaking of anything that is injured or marred or spoiled [thereby]: you say, الإِهَابَ [She sprinkled, or put, dust, or earth, upon the hide], to prepare it properly for use; and so of a skin for water or milk. It is said in a trad., [accord. to one reading,] اتْرِبُوا الكِتَابَ [Sprinkle ye the writing with dust]. (S. [So in three copies of that work: probably أَتْرِبُوا; but perhaps : the reading commonly known is .])
def.3 اترب also signifies He possessed a slave who had been possessed three times.
def.2 اتربهُ He put dust, or earth, upon it, namely, a thing; as also ترّبهُ : or the latter, Verbal.Noun تَتْرِيبٌ, signifies he defiled it, or soiled it, with dust, or earth: or you say, , or تَرَبَهُ بِالتُّرَابِ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun تَرْبٌ, [meaning he sprinkled it with dust,] namely, a writing [for the purpose of drying up the ink], or a paper; and ترّبهُ , with teshdeed, [meaning he sprinkled much dust upon it; or sprinkled it much with dust;] namely, a writing; the latter having an intensive signification: or ↓ the former of the last two verbs is used in speaking of anything that is improved, or put into a right or proper state [by means of dust or earth]; and ↓ the latter of them, in speaking of anything that is injured or marred or spoiled [thereby]: you say, الإِهَابَ [She sprinkled, or put, dust, or earth, upon the hide], to prepare it properly for use; and so of a skin for water or milk. It is said in a trad., [accord. to one reading,] اتْرِبُوا الكِتَابَ [Sprinkle ye the writing with dust]. (S. [So in three copies of that work: probably أَتْرِبُوا; but perhaps : the reading commonly known is .])
def.3 اترب also signifies He possessed a slave who had been possessed three times.