عَقَّبَ
Root: عقب
Form: 2
Full Definition
عَقَّبَII
see 1, first three quarters, in seven places.
2 The Verbal.Noun, تَعْقِيبٌ, signifies also The doing a thing and then returning to doing it: the performing an act of prayer, or another act, and then returning to doing it in the same day: and [particularly] the making a warring, or warring and plundering, expedition, and then another in the same year. [See also مُعَقِّبٌ.] You say, عقّب بِصَلَاةٍ بَعْدَ صَلَاةٍ, and بِغَزَاةٍ بَعْدَ غَزَاةٍ, He followed up one prayer with another, and one warring, or warring and plundering, expedition with another. And صَلَّى مِنَ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ عَقَّبَ He prayed in the night and then repeated the prayer. And عُقِّبَ الغَازِيَةُ بِأَمْثَالِهَا, and , The warring, or warring and plundering, party was made to be followed by another, consisting of the likes of it, sent in its place. And it is said in a trad. of 'Omar, كَانَ كُلَّ عَامٍ يُعَقِّبُ الجُيُوشَ He used, every year, to call back one party of the forces and to send another to take its turn after the former.
3 Also The performing of prayer as a supererogatory act after the [prayers called] تَرَاوِيح: such prayer is to be performed in the house, at home, not in the mosque.
4 And The waiting in prayer; or remaining in one's place in prayer waiting for another prayer. And you say, عقّب فِى الصَّلَاةِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He sat after the performing of the [ordinary] prayer for the purpose of a supplication or a petition. وَلَّى مُدْبِرًا وَلَمْ يُعَقِّبْ, in the Kur [xxvii. 10 and xxviii. 31], means [He did did not turn back retreating] and did not wait; properly, did not make advancing to follow his retreating: or and did not turn aside nor wait in expectation: or and did not turn aside nor return: or and did not look aside: or and did not return; from عقّب said of a combatant, meaning He returned after fleeing: you say, عقّب عَلَيْهِ He returned against him; syn. كَرَّ, and رَجَعَ: and تَعْقِيبٌ signifies also The turning back, or receding, from a thing that one had desired to do.
5 عَقَّبَ فِى الشَّيْبِ بِأَخْلَاقٍ حَسَنَةٍ [app. means He had latterly, in the time of hoariness, good dispositions]. (O. [The meaning that I have assigned to this phrase seems to be there indicated by the context: but I incline to think that the right reading is عُقِّبَ,
6 آتَى فُلَانٌ إِلَىَّ خَيْرًا فَعُقِّبَ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهُ [means Such a one caused good to betide me, and it was made to be followed by what was better than it]. (A, TA. [In the former it is followed by the words وَأَرْدِفَ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهُ, evidently for the purpose of explanation.])
7 [Hence,] one says, تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا تَعْقِيبٌ, meaning اِسْتِشْنَآءٌ [i. e. He gave an alms in which was no making an exception by following it up with a condition].
8 عَقَّبَنِى حَقِّى He delayed, or deferred, the giving, or paying, to me my due.
9 عقّب الأَمْرَ He looked to the consequence, end, issue, or result, of the affair, event, or case.
10 And عقّب فِى الأَمْرِ He went repeatedly to and fro, or made repeated efforts, in seeking to accomplish the affair, striving, or exerting himself. In the K, التَّعْقِيبُ [the Verbal.Noun] is expl. as signifying التَّرَدُّدُ
def.2 عقّب said of the [plant called] عَرْفَج, Verbal.Noun تَعْقِيبٌ, It became yellow in its fruit, and attained to the season of its drying up: from عَقِبَ said of a plant or herbage.
def.3 عقّب عُقَابًا, Verbal.Noun as above, He planed off a stone of the kind called عُقَاب, in a well. (TA. [See also مُعَقِّبٌ.])
def.4 See also 1, last quarter, in two places.
2 The Verbal.Noun, تَعْقِيبٌ, signifies also The doing a thing and then returning to doing it: the performing an act of prayer, or another act, and then returning to doing it in the same day: and [particularly] the making a warring, or warring and plundering, expedition, and then another in the same year. [See also مُعَقِّبٌ.] You say, عقّب بِصَلَاةٍ بَعْدَ صَلَاةٍ, and بِغَزَاةٍ بَعْدَ غَزَاةٍ, He followed up one prayer with another, and one warring, or warring and plundering, expedition with another. And صَلَّى مِنَ اللَّيْلِ ثُمَّ عَقَّبَ He prayed in the night and then repeated the prayer. And عُقِّبَ الغَازِيَةُ بِأَمْثَالِهَا, and , The warring, or warring and plundering, party was made to be followed by another, consisting of the likes of it, sent in its place. And it is said in a trad. of 'Omar, كَانَ كُلَّ عَامٍ يُعَقِّبُ الجُيُوشَ He used, every year, to call back one party of the forces and to send another to take its turn after the former.
3 Also The performing of prayer as a supererogatory act after the [prayers called] تَرَاوِيح: such prayer is to be performed in the house, at home, not in the mosque.
4 And The waiting in prayer; or remaining in one's place in prayer waiting for another prayer. And you say, عقّب فِى الصَّلَاةِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He sat after the performing of the [ordinary] prayer for the purpose of a supplication or a petition. وَلَّى مُدْبِرًا وَلَمْ يُعَقِّبْ, in the Kur [xxvii. 10 and xxviii. 31], means [He did did not turn back retreating] and did not wait; properly, did not make advancing to follow his retreating: or and did not turn aside nor wait in expectation: or and did not turn aside nor return: or and did not look aside: or and did not return; from عقّب said of a combatant, meaning He returned after fleeing: you say, عقّب عَلَيْهِ He returned against him; syn. كَرَّ, and رَجَعَ: and تَعْقِيبٌ signifies also The turning back, or receding, from a thing that one had desired to do.
5 عَقَّبَ فِى الشَّيْبِ بِأَخْلَاقٍ حَسَنَةٍ [app. means He had latterly, in the time of hoariness, good dispositions]. (O. [The meaning that I have assigned to this phrase seems to be there indicated by the context: but I incline to think that the right reading is عُقِّبَ,
6 آتَى فُلَانٌ إِلَىَّ خَيْرًا فَعُقِّبَ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهُ [means Such a one caused good to betide me, and it was made to be followed by what was better than it]. (A, TA. [In the former it is followed by the words وَأَرْدِفَ بِخَيْرٍ مِنْهُ, evidently for the purpose of explanation.])
7 [Hence,] one says, تَصَدَّقَ بِصَدَقَةٍ لَيْسَ فِيهَا تَعْقِيبٌ, meaning اِسْتِشْنَآءٌ [i. e. He gave an alms in which was no making an exception by following it up with a condition].
8 عَقَّبَنِى حَقِّى He delayed, or deferred, the giving, or paying, to me my due.
9 عقّب الأَمْرَ He looked to the consequence, end, issue, or result, of the affair, event, or case.
10 And عقّب فِى الأَمْرِ He went repeatedly to and fro, or made repeated efforts, in seeking to accomplish the affair, striving, or exerting himself. In the K, التَّعْقِيبُ [the Verbal.Noun] is expl. as signifying التَّرَدُّدُ
def.2 عقّب said of the [plant called] عَرْفَج, Verbal.Noun تَعْقِيبٌ, It became yellow in its fruit, and attained to the season of its drying up: from عَقِبَ said of a plant or herbage.
def.3 عقّب عُقَابًا, Verbal.Noun as above, He planed off a stone of the kind called عُقَاب, in a well. (TA. [See also مُعَقِّبٌ.])
def.4 See also 1, last quarter, in two places.
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