اجبى

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اجبىIV in the trad. مَنْ أَجْبَى فَقَدْ أَرْبَى is originally أَجْبَأَ [q. v.]: accord. to IAth, it is a corruption of the relater, or the ء is suppressed to assimilate the verb to اربى The Verbal.Noun, إِجْبَآءٌ, is variously explained, as follows: The selling seed-produce before it shows itself to be in a good state: and a man's hiding his camels from the collector of the poor-rate: and i. q. عِينَةٌ; i. e. the selling to a man a commodity for a certain price to be paid at a certain period, then buying it of him with ready money for a less price than that for which it was sold.

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