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آبَI
, Present.T يَؤُوبُ, Verbal.Noun أَوْبٌ and إِيَابٌ and أَوْبَةٌ and أَيْبَةٌ, ى taking the place of و, and إِيبَةٌ and مَآبٌ [like مَآلٌ], He returned to his place, or to a thing, or from his journey; as also
أوّب , Verbal.Noun تَأْوِيبٌ and تَأْيِيبٌ; and
تأوّب ; and
ائتاب [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَابَ]; and
أَيَّبَ , [a quasi-quadriliteralradical verb, originally أَيْوَبَ,] of the measure فَيْعَلَ, Verbal.Noun إيَّابٌ, originally إيوَابٌ, of the measure فِيعَالٌ, or, accord. to Fr, إِيَّابٌ is incorrect, and the right word is إِيَابٌ: [and if so, أَيَّبَ is perhaps changed from أَوَّبَ, like as أَيْبَةٌ is from أَوْبَةٌ; and تَأْيِيبٌ is perhaps its Verbal.Noun, changed from تَأْوِيبٌ:] or, as some say, إِيَابٌ signifies only the returning to one's family at night: and تأوّب أَهْلَهُ and ائتاب اهله [as well as آبَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ] signify he returned to his family at, or in, the night: or آبَ إِلَيْهِمْ, [or آبَهُمْ, accord. to a copy of the A, where we find أُبْتُ بَنِي فُلَانٍ,] Present.T as above; and
2 He returned from disobedience to obedience; he repented. And آبَ إِلَى ٱللّٰهِ
He returned unto God from his sin, or offence, and repented.
3 آبَ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ
He made him to return to him, or it; as also اوّبهُ إلَيْهِ. And آبَ يَدَهُ إِلَى سَيْفِهِ, or بِيَدِهِ, He put back his hand to his sword to draw it: and الى قَوْسِهِ [to his bow] to draw it: and الى سَهْمِهِ [to his arrow] to shoot it.
4 See also 2.
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