Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

ارسب

Root: رسب

Form: 4

Full Definition

ارسبIV It caused [a thing] to sink: hence, in a trad., describing the people of Hell, إِذَا طَفَتْ بِهِمُ النَّارُ أَرْسَبَتْهُمُ الأَغْلَالُ When the fire shall raise them, and make them. to appear [or rather to swim upon its surface], the collars, by reason of their weight, shall make them to sink to the bottom thereof.

def.2 And ارسبوا Their eyes sank in their heads by reason of hunger.


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