وَهَبَ
Root: وهب
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 See 3.
3 وَهَبَنِىٱللّٰهُ فِدَاكَ May God make me [or give me as] thy ransom! وُهِبْتُ فِدَاكَ May I be made [or given as] thy ransom! Ibn-Umm-Kásim says, that وهب is one of the verbs which signify He caused to be, or to become: and he cites the above phrase from IAar; and adds, that the verb is only used in the pret. tense. Others assert it to be rare.
4 هَبْنِى فَعَلْتُ ذٰلِكَ Suppose me; syn. ظُنَّنِى; or count me, or reckon me; syn. أُحْسُبْنِى وَٱعْدُدْنِى; [or grant me;] to have done that. هَبْ زَيْدًا مَنْطَلِقًا Suppose Zeyd to be going away, or gone away; syn. إِحْسَبْ. (So in two copies of the S: in another, أُحْسُبْ.) Thus this verb is doubly trans.: but it is not used in this sense in the pret., nor in the Present.T: you do not say وَهَبْتُكَ فَعَلْتَ ذٰلِكَ [I supposed thee to have done that]: nor do you say هَبْ أَنِّى فَعَلْتُ, as say the vulgar, though what the grammarians say, respecting the class of verbs to which ظَنَنْتُ belongs, that أَنَّ and إِنَّ [with what follows them] may supply the place of the two objective complements, [as when you say ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّ زَيْدًا قَائِمٌ, and ظننت إِنَّ زَيْدًا لَقَائِمٌ, “ I thought Zeyd to be standing, ”] affords matter for controverting this.
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