Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تربّد

Root: ربد

Form: 5

Full Definition

تربّدV It exhibited patches, or shining hues, of black and white, or of faint blackness and whiteness. He, or it, was, or became, marked, in oblong shapes, (كَانَ مُوَلَّعًا,) with black and white; and so اربدّ and اربادّ : or all three signify it became of a red hue in which was blackness; said of a man's face, on an occasion of anger: or, said of a man's face, تربّد signifies it became altered, by reason of anger; and so اربدّ and ارمدّ: or it became like the colour of ashes; as also ارمدّ: or was as though parts of it became black, on an occasion of anger: and اربدّ , said, in a trad., of the Prophet's face when revelations came down to him, it became altered to a dusty hue: and تربّد said of a man's colour, it assumed various hues; appearing at one time red, and another time yellow, and another time أَخْضَر [here meaning a dark, or an ashy, dustcolour], by reason of anger.
2 Also He looked sternly, austerely, or morosely.
3 And تربّدت السِّمَآءُ The sky became clouded.


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