قَبُحَ
Root: قبح
Form: 1
Full Definition
قَبُحَI
, Present.T
ـُ Verbal.Noun
قُبْحٌ , [or this, accord. to the S, seems to be a simple subst.,] and قَبْحٌ and قَبَاحَةٌ and قُبُوحَةٌ and قُبُوحٌ and قُبَاحٌ, He, or it, was, or became, bad, evil, abominable, foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous; contr. of
حَسُنَ. One says of a man, قَبُحَ وَشَقُحَ [app. using the latter v. as an imitative sequent]: and جَآءَ بِالقَبَاحَةِ وَالشَّقَاحَةِ [He did, or said, what was bad or evil &c.]. (K in art. شقح.) And
اُقْبُحْ إِنْ كُنْتَ
Be thou bad or evil &c., if thou be desirous of becoming so: and مَا هُوَ قَوْقَ مَا قَبُحَ
He is not becoming bad &c., or will not become bad &c., above the degree in which he has become so: and in like manner one says in similar cases.
def.2 لَا تَقْبَحُوا الوَجْهَ, occurring in a trad., means Say not ye that the face is قَبِيح [i. e. unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous]; because God formed it: or the meaning is, say not ye قَبَحَ ٱللّٰهُ وَجْهَ فُلَانٍ [expl. in what follows].
2 And قَبَحَهُ ٱللّٰهُ, (S, A, Msb, K, TA, &c., [in the CK قَبَّحَهُ,]) Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun قَبْحٌ and قُبُوحٌ, God removed him, or may God remove him, far, from good, or prosperity, or from all that is good; [or from success, or the attainment of that which he deserves or seeks; ] like as one does the dog and the pig: [or God drove him away, or may God drive him away, like a dog: or God rendered him, or may God render him, foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous, in form: ] and ٱللّٰهُ has a similar, but intensive, signification. One says, قَبْحًا لَهُ [an elliptical expression, a verb and its agent being understood, i. e., with these supplied, removal far from good, &c., to him; or removal &c. to him; meaning may removal &c. betide him]; and also, with damm; [i. e. foulness,
3 قَبَحْتُ لَهُ وَجْهَهُ, [thus,] without teshdeed, means I said to him, قَبَحَ ٱللّٰهُ وَجْهَكَ [i. e. May God remove thee far from good, &c., for وَجْهَكَ is here put for نَفْسَكَ, the phrase being] from القَبْحُ signifying “ the removing far [from good, &c.]. ” (AA, L. [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. سبح, conj. 2.])
def.3 And قَبَحَ (IAar, L, K, TA, [accord. to the CK قبّح, and so in one of two copies of the A, but the former is the right, as is shown by the form of the Present.T in an ex. in the TA,]) He broke a purulent pustule in order that the matter might come forth: or he squeezed a purulent pustule to express its contents before it was ripe: and [in like manner] he broke an egg, or anything.
def.2 لَا تَقْبَحُوا الوَجْهَ, occurring in a trad., means Say not ye that the face is قَبِيح [i. e. unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous]; because God formed it: or the meaning is, say not ye قَبَحَ ٱللّٰهُ وَجْهَ فُلَانٍ [expl. in what follows].
2 And قَبَحَهُ ٱللّٰهُ, (S, A, Msb, K, TA, &c., [in the CK قَبَّحَهُ,]) Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun قَبْحٌ and قُبُوحٌ, God removed him, or may God remove him, far, from good, or prosperity, or from all that is good; [or from success, or the attainment of that which he deserves or seeks; ] like as one does the dog and the pig: [or God drove him away, or may God drive him away, like a dog: or God rendered him, or may God render him, foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous, in form: ] and ٱللّٰهُ has a similar, but intensive, signification. One says, قَبْحًا لَهُ [an elliptical expression, a verb and its agent being understood, i. e., with these supplied, removal far from good, &c., to him; or removal &c. to him; meaning may removal &c. betide him]; and also, with damm; [i. e. foulness,
3 قَبَحْتُ لَهُ وَجْهَهُ, [thus,] without teshdeed, means I said to him, قَبَحَ ٱللّٰهُ وَجْهَكَ [i. e. May God remove thee far from good, &c., for وَجْهَكَ is here put for نَفْسَكَ, the phrase being] from القَبْحُ signifying “ the removing far [from good, &c.]. ” (AA, L. [See an ex. in a verse cited in art. سبح, conj. 2.])
def.3 And قَبَحَ (IAar, L, K, TA, [accord. to the CK قبّح, and so in one of two copies of the A, but the former is the right, as is shown by the form of the Present.T in an ex. in the TA,]) He broke a purulent pustule in order that the matter might come forth: or he squeezed a purulent pustule to express its contents before it was ripe: and [in like manner] he broke an egg, or anything.
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