عَبَطَ

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عَبَطَI , Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun عَبْطٌ, He took a thing [app. in a sound, or whole, state; for such a restriction seems to be indicated by what follows, and may have been omitted in the TA by inadvertence]: this is the primary signification. You say also, عَبَطَهُ المَوْتُ, or , and , Death took him in a youthful, and sound, or healthy, state; not diseased, nor old and weak.
2 He slaughtered a she-camel, or a sheep or goat, or stabbed, or stuck, (نَحَرَ,) a beast, [i. e. a camel,] in a sound, or healthy, state, in a state of freedom from disease, and from fracture, [but see عَبِيطٌ,] and in a fat and youthful condition; as also . And hence ↓ the latter is used to signify He slew a man for no crime; he slew a man wrongfully, not in retaliation: and he wounded. [Hence also,] عَبَطَ, or عَبَطَ نَفْسَهُ فِى الحَرْبِ, and بِنَفْسِهِ, Verbal.Noun عَبْطٌ, He threw himself, not constrained against his will, into war, or fight. [And] عَبَطَتْهُ الدَّاهِيَةُ, or الدَّوَاهِى, Calamity, or calamities, befell him, without his deserving the same.
3 He made an udder to bleed: or he wounded it, or made it to bleed, by vehement milking, and squeezing; from عَبِيطٌ applied to blood, and signifying “ fresh: ” or milked it to the uttermost, so that blood came forth after the milk. And عَبَطَ الفَرَسَ, or عَبَطَ عَرَقَ الفَرَسِ, He made the horse to run until he sweated.
4 He slit, or rent a garment, or piece of cloth, or a thing, when it was whole, or sound; Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun عَبْطٌ and مَعْبَطٌ.
5 It clave the ground.
6 He dug the ground in a place where it had not been dug before; as also ; which latter also signifies [simply] he dug the ground.
7 عَبَطَتِ الرِّيحُ وَجْهَ الأَرْضِ The wind stripped the surface of the ground; as also .
8 عَبَطَ التُّرَابَ He raised the dust with his hoofs; as also .
9 عَبَطَ عِرْضَهُ [He rent his honour, or reputation;] he reviled him; he detracted from his reputation, spoke against him, or impugned his character; as also عرضه: عَبَطَ is syn. with غَابَ, from الغِيبَةُ, not from الغَيْبُوبَةُ; as also , i. q. اِغْتَابَ.
10 And عَبَطَ الكَذِبَ عَلَىَّ He forged what was false against me; as also .

def.2 Also, Present.T as above, It became slit, or rent: thus intrans. as well as trans.

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