تَعْتِيبٌ
Root: عتب
Form: 2
Full Definition
تَعْتِيبٌII
The making an
عَتَبَة [meaning a threshold]. تَعْتِيبُ البَابِ means The making a threshold (عَتَبَة) to the door.
2 [And The making an عَتَبَة :] or so تَعْتِيبُ عَتَبَةٍ.] You say, عَتِّبْ لِى عَتَبَةً فِى هٰذَا المَوْضِعِ [Make thou for me a step in this place] when you desire to ascend thereby to a place.
3 And The drawing together the حُجْزَة [of the drawers, or trousers, i. e. the tuck, or doubled upper border, through which passes the waist-band], and folding it, in front: [app. meaning the turning up a portion, drawn together in front, inside the band, to prepare for some active employment:] you say, عَتَّبَ سَرَاوِيلَهُ فَتَشَمَّرَ [He drew together the tuck of his drawers, or trousers, &c., and prepared himself for active employment]: and the part so drawn together &c. is called the ثُبْنَة.
def.2 See also أُعْتِبَ, said of a bone.
def.3 عتّب is also said of a man as meaning He was, or became, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward: in which sense, its ب is thought by ISd to be a substitute for the م in عَتَّمَ.
2 [And The making an عَتَبَة :] or so تَعْتِيبُ عَتَبَةٍ.] You say, عَتِّبْ لِى عَتَبَةً فِى هٰذَا المَوْضِعِ [Make thou for me a step in this place] when you desire to ascend thereby to a place.
3 And The drawing together the حُجْزَة [of the drawers, or trousers, i. e. the tuck, or doubled upper border, through which passes the waist-band], and folding it, in front: [app. meaning the turning up a portion, drawn together in front, inside the band, to prepare for some active employment:] you say, عَتَّبَ سَرَاوِيلَهُ فَتَشَمَّرَ [He drew together the tuck of his drawers, or trousers, &c., and prepared himself for active employment]: and the part so drawn together &c. is called the ثُبْنَة.
def.2 See also أُعْتِبَ, said of a bone.
def.3 عتّب is also said of a man as meaning He was, or became, slow, tardy, dilatory, late, or backward: in which sense, its ب is thought by ISd to be a substitute for the م in عَتَّمَ.
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