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قَاشِبٌ

Root: قشب

Full Definition

قَاشِبٌ [act. part. n. of قَشَبَ; Mixing: &c.].
2 One who imputes to others, or charges them with, vices, or faults, that are in himself.
3 And A tailor who ejects his , i. e. the knots of the threads, [meaning who spits them out,] when he ejects them.

def.2 And [A man] weak in respect of the body (ضَعِيفُ النَّفْسِ); i. e. one whose قِشْب [meaning body] is weak, or emaciated; by his فِشْب being meant his نَفْس [as syn. with جَسَد].
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