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تَسْبِيخٌ

Root: سبخ

Form: 2

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تَسْبِيخٌII [Verbal.Noun of سبّخ] The separating, or plucking asunder, and loosening, of cotton, and making it [or spreading it out] wide.
2 And The winding of cotton and the like, such as wool, and soft hair (وَبَر), after the separating and loosening, for a woman to spin it; [as also سَبْخٌ, Verbal.Noun of ; see سَبِيخٌ.]
3 [Hence,] The act of lightening, or alleviating. It is related in a trad. that the Prophet said to 'Áïsheh, when she had cursed a thief, who had stolen something from her, who had stolen something from her, لَا تُسَبِّخِى عَنْهُ بِدُعَائِكِ عَلَيْهِ, meaning Do not thou alleviate the merited punishment of his crime by thy cursing him. And a poet says, فَسَبِّخْ عَلَيْكَ الهَمَّ وَٱعْلَمْ بِأَنَّهُ إِذَا قَدَّرَ الرَّحْمٰنُ شَيْئًا فَكَائِنُ [Then alleviate thou the disquietude of thy mind; and know that, when the Compassionate decreeth a thing, it happeneth]. One says also, سَبَّخَ ٱللّٰهُ عَنْكَ الحُمَّى May God alleviate thy fever. And اَللّٰهُمَّ سَبِّخْ عَنَّا الأَذَى O God, remove from us, or alleviate to us, that which harms, or hurts.
4 And The act of stilling, quieting, rendering motionless, appeasing, tranquillizing, calming, allaying, assuaging, or quelling.

def.2 Also The becoming [alleviated, or lightened,] still, quiet, motionless, appeased, tranquil, calm, allayed, assuaged, or quelled. One says of heat, and of anger, سبّخ, Verbal.Noun as above; and تسبّخ ; It became abated, or allayed, and alleviated.
2 Also The ceasing of veins from the throbbing occasioned by pain therein.
3 See also 1, in three places.
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