سُبَّةٌ
Root: سب
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سُبَّةٌ
A disgrace; a shame; a thing that occasions one's being reviled. One says, صَارَ هٰذَا الأَمْرُ سُبَّةً عَلَيْهِ
This thing became a disgrace to him, occasioning his being reviled. And أَنْتَ سُبَّةٌ عَلَى قَوْمِكَ [Thou art a disgrace to thy people]. [And
مَسَبَّةٌ , in like manner, (a word of the class of مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ, being originally مَسْبَبَةٌ,) signifies A cause of reviling, or of being reviled; as is shown by the saying of Tufeyl El-Ghanawee, cited in the TA in art. عقب,
2 Also One whom people revile much. See also سُبَبَةٌ.
And the people did not find in us a cause of reviling, or of being reviled: pl. مَسَابُّ.] One says, إِيَّاكَ and المَسَابَّ [Beware thou of, or avoid thou, the cause of reviling or of being reviled, and the causes thereof].فَلَمْ يَجِدِ الأَقْوَامُ فِينَا مَسَبَّةً
2 Also One whom people revile much. See also سُبَبَةٌ.
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