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جَعَبَهُ

Root: جعب

Form: 1

Full Definition

جَعَبَهُI Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun جَعْبٌ, He prostrated him; he threw him down upon the ground; like جَعَفَهُ; as also جعّبهُ , ing. n. تَعْجِيبٌ; and ↓جَعْمَاهُ (S, K, [in the CK erroneously written جَعْبَأَه,]) like سَلْقَاهُ from سَلَقَهُ, Verbal.Noun جِعْبَآءٌ. (S, TA [in the latter, in one place, probably by a mistake of a copyist, written جعباة].)
2 He in verted it, or him; he turned it, or him, upside down, or over, or inside out; syn. قَلَبَهُ.
3 He collected it; mostly used in relation to that which is small in quantity, paltry, or inconsiderable.

def.2 جَعَبَ, and جَعَبَ جَعْبَةٌ, He made a quiver of the kind called جعبة.
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