Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَشَبٌ

Root: اشب

Full Definition

أَشَبٌ Verbal.Noun of أَشِبَ.
2 [Hence,] Confusedness; dubiousness: so in the saying, ضَرَبَتْ فِيهِ فُلَانَةُ بِعِرْقٍ ذِى أَشَبٍ i. e. ذِى ٱلْتِبَاسٍ. See art. ضرب
3 Also An abundance of trees. In a trad. of Ibn-Umm-Mektoom, إِنِّى رَجُلٌ ضَرِيرٌ بَيْنِى وَ بَيْنَكَ أَشَبٌ فَرَخِّصْ لِى فِي العِشَآءِ وَالفَجْرِ means Verily I am a blind man, [and] between me and thee are palm-trees confusedly disposed; therefore grant thou me indulgence with respect to [coming to thee to perform the prayers of] the nightfall and the daybreak.


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