عَابَ
Root: عيب
Form: 1
Full Definition
عَابَI
, Present.T يَعِيبُ, Verbal.Noun عَيْبٌ, and مَعَابٌ and مَعِيبٌ are allowable as inf. ns., It was, or became, faulty, unsound, or defective; or had a fault, an unsoundness, a defect, an imperfection, a blemish, or something amiss. [See also 5.]
def.2 عَابَهُ, [Present.T as above,] Verbal.Noun عَيْبٌ and عَابٌ; and عيّبهُ , or this has an intensive signification; and تعيّبهُ ; He made, or caused, it to be faulty, unsound, or defective; or to have a fault, an unsoundness, a defect, an imperfection, a blemish, or something amiss. أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُعِيبَهَا, in the Kur [xviii. 78], means I desired to render it faulty, or unsound.
2 [The same verbs are also often used in relation to a human being as the object.]
3 And one says عَابَهُ, [Present.T as above,] Verbal.Noun عَيْبٌ and عَابٌ and مَعَابٌ and مَعِيبٌ; and عيّبهُ ; and تعيّبهُ ; meaning He [found fault with him, or it; blamed, upbraided, or reproached, him; or] attributed or imputed to him, or it, or charged him with, or accused him of, a vice, fault, &c. [The first of these verbs is of very frequent occurrence as meaning thus: one ex. of it occurs in the saying of a poet cited in the S and O in this art.,
def.3 عاب السِّقَآءُ The skin had milk that had become thick in it
def.2 عَابَهُ, [Present.T as above,] Verbal.Noun عَيْبٌ and عَابٌ; and عيّبهُ , or this has an intensive signification; and تعيّبهُ ; He made, or caused, it to be faulty, unsound, or defective; or to have a fault, an unsoundness, a defect, an imperfection, a blemish, or something amiss. أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُعِيبَهَا, in the Kur [xviii. 78], means I desired to render it faulty, or unsound.
2 [The same verbs are also often used in relation to a human being as the object.]
3 And one says عَابَهُ, [Present.T as above,] Verbal.Noun عَيْبٌ and عَابٌ and مَعَابٌ and مَعِيبٌ; and عيّبهُ ; and تعيّبهُ ; meaning He [found fault with him, or it; blamed, upbraided, or reproached, him; or] attributed or imputed to him, or it, or charged him with, or accused him of, a vice, fault, &c. [The first of these verbs is of very frequent occurrence as meaning thus: one ex. of it occurs in the saying of a poet cited in the S and O in this art.,
I am the man whom ye have charged with a vice, or fault, &c. And one says, عاب عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ, meaning He blamed, or discommended, to him his deed.أَنَا الرَّجُلُ الَّذِى قَدْ عِبْتُمُوهُ
def.3 عاب السِّقَآءُ The skin had milk that had become thick in it
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