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رِبْعِىٌّ

Root: ربع

Full Definition

رِبْعِىٌّ Of, or relating to, the رَبِيع; i. e., the season so called; [and the rain, and the herbage, so called;] a rel. n. irregularly formed.
2 Born in the [season called] رَبِيع; applied to a young camel: born in the beginning of the breeding-time; [which means the same;] so applied.
3 And hence, A son born in the prime [or spring-time] of his father's manhood; because the ربيع is the beginning, and the most approved part, of the breeding-time: pl. رِبْعِيُّونَ. Saad Ibn-Málik says, إِنَّ بَنِىَّ صِبْيَةٌ صَيْفِيُّونْ أَفْلَحَ مَنْ كَانَ لَهُ رِبْعِيُّونْ [Verily my sons are boys born in the summer of my age: happy is he who has sons born in the spring-time of his manhood.]
4 A palm-tree (سِبْطٌ, i. e. نَخْلَةٌ,) of which the fruit ripens in the end of the summer, or hot season; AHn says, because then is the time of the [rain called] وَسْمِىّ.
5 The Arabs say, صَرَفَانَةٌ رِبْعِيَّهْ تُصْرَمُ بِالصَّيْفِ وَتُؤْكَلُ بِالشَّتِيَّةْ [A hard kind of date that would ripen in the season called رَبِيع that is cut in the summer and eaten in the winter-season].
6 نَاقَةٌ رِبْعِيَّةٌ A she-camel that brings forth [in the season called رَبِيع,] before others.
7 رِبْعِيَّةٌ [used as a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, for مِيرَةٌ رِبْعِيَّةٌ,] signifies The مِيرَة [or corn brought for provision, or the bringing thereof,] in the beginning of winter: or the مِيرَة of the [season called] رَبِيع; which is the first ميرة; next after. which is the صَيْفِيَّة; and next after this, the دَفَئِيَّة; and next after this, the رَمَضِيَّة. [See art. مير.]
8 Also, the same, [used in like manner, for عِيرٌ رِبْعِيَّةٌ,] Camels that bring provision of corn in the [season called] رَبِيع; or, which means the same, in the beginning of the year: pl. رَبَاعِىُّ.
9 And [used in the same manner, for غَزْوَةٌ رِبْعِيَّةٌ,] A warring, or warring and plundering, expedition in the [season called] رَبِيع.
10 رِبْعِىٌّ also signifies The first, or beginning, or former part, of anything; for instance, of youthfulness, or the prime of manhood; and of glory: and رِبْعِيَّةٌ likewise, the beginning of breeding, and of summer.
11 رِبْعِىُّ الطِّعَانِ The sharpest kind of thrusting, or piercing.


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