استدبرهُ
Root: دبر
Form: 10
Full Definition
2 [As such also,] He came behind him. You say, استدبرهُ فَرَمَاهُ He came behind him and cast, or shot, at him.
3 [As such also, He saw it behind him: he looked back to it: he saw it, or knew it, afterwards:] he saw, or knew, at the end of it, namely, an affair, or a case, what he did not see, or know, at the beginning of it: [or rather] he knew it at the end of an affair, or a case; namely, a thing that he did not know at the beginning of it. You say, اِسْتَدْبَرَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ مَالَمْ يَسْتَقْبِلْ He knew at the end of his affair, or case, what he did not know at the beginning of it. And إِنَّ فُلَانًا لَوِ ٱسْتَقْبَلَ مِنْ أَمْرِهِ مَا ٱسْتَدْبَرَهُ لَهُدِىَ لِوِجْهَةِ أَمْرِهِ Verily such a one, had he known at the beginning of his affair, or case, what he knew at the end thereof, had been directed to the right way of executing his affair. [See also 5.]
4 استدبرهُ عَلَى غَيْرِهِ He appropriated it to himself exclusively, in preference to others: because he who does so turns his back upon others, and retires from them. El-Aashà says, describing wine,
i. e. [I sipped it] not appropriating [it] to myself exclusively [in preference to the other drinkers, nor denying what was known].عَلَى الشَّرْبِ أَوْ مُنْكِرٍ مَا عُلِمْ تَمَزَّرْتُهَاغَيْرَ مُسْتَدْبِرٍ
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