تربّص
Root: ربص
Form: 5
Full Definition
تربّصV
He expected; or awaited: he tarried; or tarried expecting. You say تربّص الأَمْرَ
He looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, the thing, or event. And تربّص بِهِ الشَّىْءَ, or الأَمْرَ, He looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, the thing, or event, to befall him, or betide him. It is said in the Kur [ix. 52], هَلْ تَرَبَّصُونَ بِنَا إِلَّا
إِحْدَى ٱلْحُسْنَيَيْنِ [Do ye look for, &c., aught save one of the two best things to betide us?]. And a poet says,
[Wait thou for the vicissitudes of fortune to befall her: perhaps she may be divorced some day, or her husband may die]. You say also, تربّص بِسِلْعَتِهِ الغَلَآءَ [He looked for, &c., a time of dearness for his commodity, or article of merchandise]. And, [elliptically,) تربّص بِفُلَانٍ, or بِالشَّىْءِ; and بِهِ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun رَبْصٌ; He looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, [something] good or evil to befall, or betide, such a one, or the thing: or تربًّ بِالشَّىْءَ signifies he looked for, expected, awaited, or waited for, a day for the thing.تَرَبَّصْ بِهَا رَيْبَ المَنُونِ لَعَلَّهَا تُطَلَّقُ يَوْمًا أَوْ يَمُوتُ حَلِيلُهَا
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