اقصبهُ

Form: 4

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اقصبهُIV He empowered him to revile, or vilify, him. [Agreeably with an explanation of قَصَبَهُ in the A, mentioned above, it may rather be rendered He caused him to cut, with censure, or to wound, his honour, or reputation.]

def.2 اقصب said of a pastor, [He performed his service ill, so that] his camels disliked, and refused to drink, the water; or, [so that] his camels abstained from drinking before they had satisfied their thirst. رَعَى فَأَقْصَبَ [He pastured, and performed his service ill, &c.,] is a prov., applied to a [bad] pastor; because, if he pasture the camels ill, they will not drink; for they drink only when they are satiated with the herbage: or, as Meyd says, it is applied to him who will not act sincerely, or honestly, and with energy, or vigour, in an affair which he has undertaken, so that he mars, or vitiates, it.

def.3 اقصب said of a place, It produced reeds, or canes.
2 See also 2.

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