شِهَابٌ
Root: شهب
Full Definition
شِهَابٌ
, in its primary acceptation, A
شُعْلَة [i. e. either brand or flame ] of fire: or a
شُعْلَة
of fire gleaming or radiating: accord. to ISk, a firebrand; i. e. a stick in which is fire: or, accord. to AHeyth, originally, a piece of wood, or stick, in which is fire gleaming or radiating: pl. شُهُبٌ, and some allow شُهْبٌ, and شُهْبَانٌ and شِهْبَانٌ, which is strange, and أَشْهُبٌ, which last is [a pl. of pauc., but] thought by IM to be a quasi-pl. n. The reading بِشِهَابِ قَبَسٍ, instead of بِشِهَابٍ قَبَسٍ, in the Kur [xxvii. 7], is an instance of a word prefixed to another identical therewith.
2 Hence, [A shooting, or falling, star;] a star, or the like of a star, that darts down [or is hurled] by night; and particularly after a devil; as occurring in the Kur [xv. 18 and] xxxvii. 10; and in a trad.; respecting the attempt of a devil to hear, by stealth, words uttered in heaven.
3 [Hence also,] الشُّهُبُ signifies The shining, or brightly-shining, stars: or the seven stars [or planets; meaning, not the Pleiades (which are called النَّجْمُ), but the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn: the first three of which are said by Freytag to be called صِغَارُ الشُّهُبِ].
4 For another meaning assigned in the K to الشُّهُبُ, see الشُّهْبُ, voce أَشْهَبُ.
5 شِهَابٌ also signifies
6 Also the name of A certain devil: occurring in a trad.: hence the Prophet changed the name of a certain man [originally] thus named.
2 Hence, [A shooting, or falling, star;] a star, or the like of a star, that darts down [or is hurled] by night; and particularly after a devil; as occurring in the Kur [xv. 18 and] xxxvii. 10; and in a trad.; respecting the attempt of a devil to hear, by stealth, words uttered in heaven.
3 [Hence also,] الشُّهُبُ signifies The shining, or brightly-shining, stars: or the seven stars [or planets; meaning, not the Pleiades (which are called النَّجْمُ), but the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn: the first three of which are said by Freytag to be called صِغَارُ الشُّهُبِ].
4 For another meaning assigned in the K to الشُّهُبُ, see الشُّهْبُ, voce أَشْهَبُ.
5 شِهَابٌ also signifies
6 Also the name of A certain devil: occurring in a trad.: hence the Prophet changed the name of a certain man [originally] thus named.
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