سَرَّبَ
Root: سرب
Form: 2
Full Definition
سَرَّبَII
[سرّب app. signifies, primarily, He sent camels in a herd or drove, together, to pasture. And hence,
2 ] سرّب عَلَىَّ الإِبِلَ He sent [against me] the camels [app. with armed riders], one detached number after another: and in like manner, الخَيْلَ [the horsemen]. It is said in a trad. of ' Áïsheh, [referring to girls who were her playmates,] كَانَ يُسَرِّبُهُنَّ إِلَىَّ فَيَلْعَبْنَ مَعِى He used to send them to me [app. party after party, and they would play with me]. And one says, سَرَّبْتُ إِلَيْهِ الشَّىْءَ I sent to him the thing, one by one; or rather, portion by portion. And سَرَّبْتُ إِلَيْهِ الأَشْيَآءَ I gave him the things, one after another. And سَرَّبَهُ
He sent him back in his
سرب [i. e. سَرْب], meaning way [by which he had come].
3 See also 4.
def.2 سرّب سَرَبًا He made a subterranean excavation.
2 سرّب الحَافِرُ, Verbal.Noun تَسْرِيبٌ, The digger [of a well], in digging, took [i. e. dug] towards the right and left: in some copies of the K, [and in the S,] right or left: but the former is the correct explanation.
def.3 سرّب القِرْبَةَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He poured water into the قربة [i. e. water-skin, or milk-skin], in order that the holes made in the sewing might become filled up by their being moistened, or by the moistening, and consequent swelling, of the thong [with which it was sewed]; the قربة being new.
2 ] سرّب عَلَىَّ الإِبِلَ
3 See also 4.
def.2 سرّب سَرَبًا He made a subterranean excavation.
2 سرّب الحَافِرُ, Verbal.Noun تَسْرِيبٌ, The digger [of a well], in digging, took [i. e. dug] towards the right and left: in some copies of the K, [and in the S,] right or left: but the former is the correct explanation.
def.3 سرّب القِرْبَةَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He poured water into the قربة [i. e. water-skin, or milk-skin], in order that the holes made in the sewing might become filled up by their being moistened, or by the moistening, and consequent swelling, of the thong [with which it was sewed]; the قربة being new.