هَرَبَ

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هَرَبَI , Present.T ـُ; not ـَ as some have imagined on account of the measure of the first of the following inf. ns., imagining thence also that the pret. is هَرِبَ; nor ـَ with the pret. هَرَبَ, as some have supposed because of the guttural letter; for a guttural letter, when it is the first, is not reckoned as having any influence on the form of the Present.T; nor ـِ as some have thought; Verbal.Noun هَرَبٌ and مَهْرَبٌ and هَرَبَانٌ; He fled; ran away.
2 إِلَيْكَ مِنْكَ المَهْرَبُ [To Thee I flee for refuge from Thee; i. e., from thy punishment: addressed to God].
3 هَرَبَ مِنَ الوَتَدِ نِصْفُهُ Half of the wooden pin, peg, or stake, disappeared [in the ground].

def.2 هَرِبَ, Present.T ـَ He became extremely aged, old and weak, or decrepit; i. q. هَرِمَ; of which it is a dial. form.

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