Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اوهب

Root: وهب

Form: 4

Full Definition

اوهبIV He prepared, or made ready, the thing for him.
2 أَوْهَبْتُكَ الطَّعَامَ وَالشَّرَابَ I prepared, or made ready, for thee the food and beverage, and abundance of them. But see this verb in an intrans. sense.
3 أَوْهَبَ الطَّعَامُ The food, or corn, or the like, became abundant and ample, so that some of it was given away.

def.2 أَوْهَبْتُ لِأَمْرِ كَذَا I became capable of such a thing and able to do it.
2 أَوْهَبَ لَكَ الشَّىْءُ The thing was, or became, within thy power, or reach, so that thou mightest take it. Related on the authority of IAar alone, who says, They did not say أَوْهَبْتُهُ لَكَ.
3 أَوْهَبَ لَهُ الشَّىْءُ The thing was lasting to him. J cites the following verse: عَظِيمُ القَفَا رِخْوُ الخَوَاصِرِ أَوْهَبَتْ لَهُ عَجْوَةٌ مَسْمُونَةٌ وَخَمِيرُ [Large in the back of the neck, soft in the flanks: dates of the best that ElMedeeneh produces, prepared with clarified butter, and leaven, are lasting to him]. But 'Alee Ibn-Hamzeh says, that this is a mistake, and that the right reading is أُرْهِنَتْ, meaning “ are prepared, and continued. ” So in a marginal note in a copy of the S. [So too in the margin of one of my MS. copies of the S.]


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