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اصعب

Root: صعب

Form: 4

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اصعبIV : see 1.
2 Said of a camel, He was, or became, صَعْب [meaning refractory, or untractable]: [and in like manner one says استصعب : (see its contr. استصحب:) and تصعّب , which is also said of a man:] and اصعب said of a camel, he was unridden, and untouched by a rope.
3 Also, said of a man, His camel was, or became, refractory, or untractable.

def.2 اصعبهُ: see 2.
2 Also He left him unridden, and untouched by a rope, so that he became refractory, or untractable. [See مُصْعَبٌ].
3 And He found it to be صَعْب [i. e. difficult, hard, &c.]; as also : or both signify he saw it, or held it, to be so. [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited voce رَيْثٌ.]
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