الاِضْطِبَاعُ

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الاِضْطِبَاعُVIII , which the circuiter round the House [of God, i. e. the Kaabeh,] is commanded to perform, or in the case of the مُحْرِم, is The putting the [garment called] رِدَآء under one's right armpit, and turning back the extremity thereof over his left [shoulder], exposing to view his right shoulder [and arm] and covering the left; like the man that desires to labour at a thing and prepares himself for doing so; thus termed because of exposing to view one of the two upper arms: or the putting one's garment under his right arm, or under his right armpit, and throwing [a portion of] it upon his left shoulder: or the taking the إِزَار or the بُرْد, and putting the middle of it under one's right armpit, and throwing the extremity thereof upon his left shoulder, over his breast and his back: التَّأَبُّطُ and التَّوَشُّحُ likewise signify the same: so says Az: and so says As of the former: and it is also written الاِطِّبَاعُ. (Thus in the TA in explanation of التَّأَبُّطُ.) You say, اِضْطَبَعَ بِثَوْبِهِ [He attired himself with his garment in the manner described above]. And اضطبع الشَّىْءَ He put the thing under his upper arms. (TA. [But accord. to the Mgh, the verb is trans., correctly, only by means of بِ.])

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