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سَبَّهُ

Root: سب

Form: 1

Full Definition

سَبَّهُI , [Present.T سَبُبَ ] Verbal.Noun سَبٌّ, He cut him, or it.
2 And i. q. عَقَرَهُ [i. e. He wounded him; or hocked, houghed, or hamstrung, him; &c.].
3 And, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He pierced him in the سَبَّةٌ, i. e. the اِسْت. [See an ex. in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. سر.]
4 Also سَبَّهُ, Present.T as above, Verbal.Noun سَبٌّ and سِبِّيبَى, [but the latter, accord. to analogy, has an intensive signification,] He reviled him, vilified him, upbraided him, reproached him, defamed him, or gave a bad name to him; from the same verb in the first of the senses expl. in this art.; as also ; or the latter signifies he reviled him, vilified him, &c., much; syn. أَكْثَرَ سَبَّهُ; or is more than سَبَّهُ (أَكْثَرُ مِنْ سَبَّهُ).
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