تَثْبِيَةٌ
Root: ثبو
Form: 2
Full Definition
2 The collecting what is good: and also, what is bad, or evil: thus bearing two contr. significations.
3 [And hence,] The praising a man in his life-time: or praising him time after time in his life-time: or praising him much; as though relating to him collections ( ) of praise: or the mentioning of the sundry good qualities or actions: and the magnifying [a person]; or honouring [him]. You say, ثبّى الرَّجُلَ, or ثبّى عَلَى الرَّجُلِ, He praised the man in his life-time: because the doing so implies the collecting his good qualities or actions.
4 [Hence also the contr. signification,] The blaming, or censuring, much; collecting blame, or censure, from this and that source.
5 The act of completing [and augmenting a thing]. You say, ثَبِّ مَعْرُوفَكَ Complete and augment [thy beneficence, or bounty, or favour]. And ثبّى ٱللّٰهُ لَكَ النِّعَمَ [May God complete and augment to thee benefits, or blessings: or] may God send to thee benefits, or blessings. [See also 1.]
6 The putting a thing into a good, right, or sound, state, and augmenting it.
7 ثبّى المَالَ He kept, preserved, guarded, or took care of, the property.
def.2 ثَبَّيْتُ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, Verbal.Noun تَثْبِيَةٌ, I kept constantly, or perseveringly, to the thing.
2 The Verbal.Noun signifies also The keeping, or pursuing, the way, course, mode of acting, or the like, of one's father: or the doing, or acting, like one's father.
3 Also The complaining of one's state, or case, and of one's want; and asking aid, or assistance, and vengeance, or avengement. [One of the meanings assigned to the verb by Golius, as on the authority of the K, and by Freytag after him, is “ Disposuit paravitque se: ” app. from the former's having found الاِسْتِعْدَادُ written in a copy of the K for الاِسْتِعْدَآءُ.]
def.3 أَنَا أَعْرِفُهُ تَثْبِيَةً I know him, or it, with a seeming, not a certain, knowledge.
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