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اعشب

Root: عشب

Form: 4

Full Definition

اعشبIV ; and , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun عَشَبٌ; The place produced its [herbs, or herbage, of the kind termed] عُشْب: and in like manner, اعشبت الأَرْضُ, and , and thus in a copy of the K, [and in my MS. copy,] but in another copy, [and in the CK,] عشّبت , The land produced عُشْب. [See also 12. After the mention of بَلَدٌ عَاشِبٌ in the S and O, it is said in the former that for the verb one does not say otherwise than اعشبت الأَرْضُ, and in the latter that one does not say عَشَبَ البَلَدُ.]
2 And اعشب القَوْمُ The people, or party, lighted on, or found, عُشْب; as also القوم [but probably in an intensive sense]. One says to him who is sent to seek for herbage, أَعْشَبْتَ اِنْزِلْ [Thou hast found fresh herbage: alight].
3 See also 5.

def.2 سَأَلْتُهُ فَأَعْشَبَنِى [I asked him and] he gave me an old she-camel, i. e. what is termed عَشَبَة.
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