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لَحَبَ

Root: لحب

Form: 1

Full Definition

لَحَبَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun لَحْبٌ; and ; He trod, and passed along, a road, such as is termed لَحْبٌ, or simply, a road. So also التحم. Lth.)

def.2 لَحَبَهُ and لحّبه He smote him with a sword: or wounded him with it.
2 لَحَبَهُ and لحّبه He made a mark, or impression, upon it.
3 He flogged him with whips, and made marks, or scars, upon him.
4 لَحَبَهُ, (Verbal.Noun لَحْبٌ, TA,) He cut it lengthwise.
5 لَحَبَ (Verbal.Noun لَحْبٌ, TA,) He stripped off meat from the bone.
6 He took what was on the back of the slaughtered camel.
7 He peeled a stick or the like, or anything.
8 It or his rump, TA) was smooth, and sloping downwards: syn. إِمْلَأَسَّ فِى حُدُورٍ.
9 لَحَبَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun لُحُوبٌ, It became conspicuous, clear, or open: as though it peeled [the surface of] the ground.
10 لَحَبَ, Verbal.Noun لَحْبٌ, He made a road conspicuous, or clear. So in the saying of Umm-Selmeh to 'Othmán, لَا تُعَفِّ طَرِيقًا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللّٰهِ صلعم لَحَبَهَا Do not thou efface a road which the Apostle of God, &c., made conspicuous, or clear.

def.3 لَحَبَ (Verbal.Noun لَحْبٌ, TA,) Inivit feminam. See لَخَبَ.
2 لَحَبَ بِه الأَرْضَ He threw him down prostrate upon the ground.
3 لَحَبَ, (Verbal.Noun لَحْبٌ, TA,) He passed, or went along, through the land: or he went right on, or straight on: or he hastened in his pace; went quickly.

def.4 لَحِبَ, Present.T ـَ [Verbal.Noun لَحَبٌ,] He became emaciated by reason of old age, and weakness.
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