اعتبهُ
Root: عتب
Form: 4
Full Definition
اعتبهُIV
, Verbal.Noun إِعْتَابٌ, with which
عُتْبَى [q. v.] is syn.; and
استعتبهُ ; He granted him his good will, or favour; regarded him with good will, or favour; became well pleased, content, or satisfied, with him. In the following verse of Sá'ideh Ibn-Jueiyeh,
2 [Or] He made him to be well pleased, content, or satisfied: and the former verb is used in a contr. sense [or ironically] in the following verse of Bishr Ibn-Abee-Kházim,
3 And [hence, app.,] أَعْتَبَنِى signifies He cancelled a bargain, or contract, with me.
def.2 اعتب and also signify He returned from doing an evil action, a crime, a sin, a fault, or an offence: or the former signifies he returned from doing evil to do that which made him who reproved or blamed him, or who was angry with him, to be well pleased with him. It is said in a prov., مَا مُسِىْءٌ مَنْ أَعْتَبَ [He is not an evildoer who returns from his evil conduct].
2 And اعتب and likewise signify He turned away, or turned back, or reverted, from a thing: and the latter is also expl. as meaning he turned back from a thing, or an affair in which he was engaged, to another thing, or affair: so accord. to Fr, from the phrase لَكَ العُتْبَى signifying as expl. below (voce عُتْبَى) on his authority. See also 3.
def.3 أُعْتِبَ said of a bone that has been set is like أُتْعِبَ [meaning It was caused to have a defect in it, so that there remained in it a constant swelling, or so that a lameness resulted: see عَتَبٌ]: and تَعْتَابٌ [of which the verb may be either or ] has the meaning of its Verbal.Noun, إِعْتَابٌ.
[The raven may become hoary but thy heart will not relinquish the remembrance of Ghadoob, nor will the reproof of thee be met with good will], the last word is expl. by يُسْتَقْبَلُ بِعُتْبَى [meaning as rendered above, or be regarded with favour, or be met by a return to such conduct as will make thy reprover well pleased with thee].شَابَ الغُرَابُ وَلَا فُؤَادُكَ تَارِكٌ ذِكْرَ الغَضُوبِ وَلَا عِتَابُكَ يُعْتَبُ
2 [Or] He made him to be well pleased, content, or satisfied: and the former verb is used in a contr. sense [or ironically] in the following verse of Bishr Ibn-Abee-Kházim,
[Temeem were angry because 'Ámir was slaughtered on the day of En-Nisár; so they were made contented by the sword:] i. e., we contented them by slaughter: [but the meaning may be, so they were made to return from their anger by the sword: that أُعْتِبَ sometimes signifies He was made to return appears from an explanation, in the K, of a phrase in the Kur xli. 23: see 10:] and أَعْتَبَنِى and signify also He returned to making me happy, or doing what was pleasing to me, from doing evil to me: or he left off doing that for which I was angry with him, and returned to that which made me to be well pleased with him: or the former signifies he removed, or did away with, [my] complaint and reproof; the ا having a privative effect: and أَعْتَبَهُ مِنْ شَكْوَاهُ means He caused him to be pleased or contented [and so relieved him from his complaint]. (Har p. 337. [See alsoغَضِبَتْ تَمِيمٌ أَنْ يُقَتَّلَ عَامِرٌ يَوْمَ النِّسَارِ فَأُعْتِبُوا بِالصَّيْلَمِ
3 And [hence, app.,] أَعْتَبَنِى signifies He cancelled a bargain, or contract, with me.
def.2 اعتب and also signify He returned from doing an evil action, a crime, a sin, a fault, or an offence: or the former signifies he returned from doing evil to do that which made him who reproved or blamed him, or who was angry with him, to be well pleased with him. It is said in a prov., مَا مُسِىْءٌ مَنْ أَعْتَبَ [He is not an evildoer who returns from his evil conduct].
2 And اعتب and likewise signify He turned away, or turned back, or reverted, from a thing: and the latter is also expl. as meaning he turned back from a thing, or an affair in which he was engaged, to another thing, or affair: so accord. to Fr, from the phrase لَكَ العُتْبَى signifying as expl. below (voce عُتْبَى) on his authority. See also 3.
def.3 أُعْتِبَ said of a bone that has been set is like أُتْعِبَ [meaning It was caused to have a defect in it, so that there remained in it a constant swelling, or so that a lameness resulted: see عَتَبٌ]: and تَعْتَابٌ [of which the verb may be either or ] has the meaning of its Verbal.Noun, إِعْتَابٌ.
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