إِغْرَابٌ
Root: غرب
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 See also 5.
3 And اغرب signifies He made the place to which he cast, or shot, to be distant, or remote.
4 Also, Verbal.Noun as above, He ran much: or اغرب فِى جَرْيِهِ, said of a horse, he exceeded the usual bounds, or degree, in his running: or he ran at the utmost rate.
5 And اغرب فِى الضَّحِكِ, and فِيهِ, and i. e. فى الضّحك, and ضَحِكًا occurring in a trad. and عَلَيْهِ الضَّحِكُ, and اغرب الضَّحِكَ, He exceeded the usual bounds, or degree, in laughing; or he laughed [immoderately, or] violently, or vehemently, and much: or i. q. قَهْقَهَ [q. v.]: or اغرب signifies he laughed so that the غُرُوب [or sharpness and lustre &c.] of his teeth appeared: or اغرب فى الضحك means he exceeded the usual bounds, or degree, in laughing, so that his
6 And اغرب, Verbal.Noun as above, He did, or said, what was strange, or extraordinary. You say, تَكَلَّمَ فَأَغْرَبَ He spoke, and said what was strange, and used extraordinary words: and يُغْرِبُ فِى كَلَامِهِ [He uses strange, or extraordinary, words in his speech].
7 Also, Verbal.Noun as above, He came to the west. [See also 2.]
def.2 اغرب also signifies He had a white child born to him.
2 And إِغْرَابٌ signifies Whiteness of the groins, next the flank. You say, of a man, اغرب meaning He was white in his groins.
def.3 See also غَرَبٌ.
def.4 اغرب as trans.: see 2.
2 إِغْرَابٌ said of a rider signifies His making his horse to run until he dies: or, accord. to Fr, one says, اعرب عَلَى فَرَسِهِ meaning “ he made his horse to run: ” [or اعرب فَرَسَهُ has this meaning: (see 4 in art. عرب:)] but he adds that some say اغرب. (O in art. عرب.)
3 And اغرب, Verbal.Noun as above, He filled a skin, and a watering-trough or tank, and a vessel. Bishr says,
[And as though their women's camel-vehicles, on the morning when they bound the burdens on their beasts and departed, were ships inclining forwards in a filled river ].وَكَأَنَّ ظُعْنَهُمُ غَدَاةَ تَحَمَّلُوا سُفُنٌ تَكَفَّأُ فِى خَلِيجٍ
4 Hence, إِغْرَابٌ signifies also Abundance of wealth, and goodliness of condition: because abundance of wealth fills the hands of the possessor thereof, and goodliness of condition fills [with satisfaction] the soul of the goodly person. [Therefore the verb, meaning He was endowed with abundance of wealth and with goodliness of condition, is app. أُغْرِبَ; not أَغْرَبَ: the explanation of the verb in the TK is, his wealth was, or became, abundant, and his condition was, or became, goodly.]
5 One says also أُغْرِبَ meaning His pain became intense, or violent, from disease or some other cause.
6 And أُغْرِبَ عَلَيْهِ, accord. to the K, signifies A foul, or an evil, deed was done to him; and [it is said that] أُغْرِبَ بِهِ signifies the same: but in other works, [the verb must app. be in the act. form, for] the explanation is, he did [to him] a foul, or an evil, deed.
7 And أُغْرِبَ said of a horse, His blaze spread so that it took in his eyes, and the edges of his eyelids were white: and it is used in like manner to signify that they were white by reason of what is termed زَرَقٌ [Verbal.Noun of زَرِقَ, q. v.]. See its part. n., مُغْرَبٌ.
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