سَبُعٌ
Root: سبع
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سَبُعٌ
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سَبْعٌ , a dial. var., and the form in common use with the vulgar, adopted also by several readers of the Kur in v. 4, and often occurring in the poems of the Arabs, and
سَبَعٌ , a form adopted by two readers of the Kur in the place above mentioned, and perhaps a dial. var., The animal of prey; the rapacious animal; [whether beast or bird; being sometimes applied to the latter, as, for instance, in the K, voce مِخْلَبٌ; but generally to the former:] or whatsoever has a fang, or canine tooth, with which it makes hostile attacks, and seizes its prey; such as the lion, [to which it is particularly applied by most of the Arabs in the present day,] and also such as the wolf and the lynx and the leopard, and the like of these, that has a fang, and attacks men and beasts and makes them its prey: the fox, however, is not thus called, though having a fang, because he does not attack with it nor take prey, or because he does not attack small beasts, nor seize with his fang any animal; and in like manner the hyena is not reckoned among the hostile animals thus called, wherefore the Sunneh allows that its flesh may be eaten, and requires that a compensation be made for it [by the sacrifice of a ram] if it be smitten [and killed] in the sacred territory or by a person in the state of ihrám: but as to the jackal, it is a noxious
سبع, and its flesh is unlawful, because it is of the same kind as wolves, except that it is smaller in size and weaker in body: thus says Az: but some others say that the سبع is any hostile beast having a
مِخْلَب [or tearing claw]: and it is said in the Mufradát to be thus called because of the perfectness of its strength; for السَّبْعُ [seven] is one of the perfect numbers: the pl. is سِبَاعٌ, i. e., of سَبُعٌ, which has no other pl.; أَسْبُعٌ is also a pl., but this is pl. of pauc. of
سَبْعٌ , which, not being a contraction [of سَبُعٌ, but a dial. var. thereof], has also for its pls. [of mult.] سُبُوعٌ and سُبُوعَةٌ, like صُقُورٌ and صُقُورَةٌ, pls. of صَقْرٌ. See also سَبْعٌ: [and see سَبُعَةٌ.] You say of him who is very injurious, or mischievous, مَا هُوَ إِلَّا سَبُعٌ مِنَ السِّبَاعِ
2 السَّبُعُ is also the name of
2 السَّبُعُ is also the name of
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