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تجبّب

Root: حب

Form: 5

Full Definition

تجبّبV He manifested, or showed, love, or affection, إِلَيْهِ to him. تحبّب and حَبَّ are both syn. with تُودّد.
2 [Also, app., He became, or made himself, an object of love or affection to him: see مُحَبَّبٌ, said to be syn. with مُتَحَبِّبٌ.]

def.2 He became swollen, or inflated, like a jar (حُبّ), from drinking.
2 It became full.
3 He began to be satiated with drink.
4 He became filled with water: and also is used in this sense, but ISd doubts its correctness: one says, شَرِبَتِ الإِبِلُ حَتَّى حَبَّبَتْ The camels drank until they were satiated.

def.3 تحبّب الجَلِيدُ كَاللُّؤْلُؤِ الصِّغَارِ [The hoar-frost formed into grains like small pearls]. (TA in art. صأب.)
2 تحبّب الرِّيقُ عَلَى الأَسْنَانِ [The saliva formed, or collected, in little bubbles upon the teeth].
3 تَقَطَّعَ اللَّبَنُ وَتَحَبَّبَ [The milk became decomposed, and formed little clots of curd]. (S in art. بحثر.)
4 تحبّب الزُّبْدُ [The butter formed into little clots, when first appearing in the milk or cream]. (S and K in art. ثمر.) The verb is also used in like manner in relation to honey, (K in art. حثر,) and دِبْس and medicine.
5 تحبّب الجِلْدُ [The skin broke cat with pimples, or small pustules: so in the language of the present day: see حَبٌّ]. (TA in art. حثر.)
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