Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَرِيبٌ

Root: عرب

Full Definition

عَرِيبٌ i. q. مُعْرِبٌ , which means, accord. to Az, A man chaste, uncorrupt, or free from barbarousness, in speech.
2 [Hence,] مَا بِالدَّارِ عَرِيبٌ and مُعْرِبٌ There is not in the house any one: used [in this sense] as applying to either sex, but only in a negative phrase.
3 See also عَرُوبٌ, latter half.


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