حَسِيبٌ
Root: حسب
Full Definition
حَسِيبٌ
A reckoner, or taker of accounts: [see also حَاسِبٌ:] or a sufficer, or giver of what is sufficient; from أَحْسَبَ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مُفْعِلٌ. It has the former of these significations, or the latter, in the phrase, كَفَى بِٱللّٰهِ حَسِيبًا [God is sufficient as a reckoner, or as a giver of what sufficeth], in the Kur [iv. 7, and xxxiii. 39]: and so in the Kur iv. 88.
2 [Hence,] حَسِيبُكَ ٱللّٰهُ, in the L ٱللّٰهُ, [both of which phrases are used in the present day in the sense here following,] May God take, or execute, vengeance upon thee; or punish thee: meaning an imprecation though literally predicatory. [See also حُسْبَانُكَ عَلَى ٱللّٰهِ, voce حَسَبَ.]
def.2 Also Characterized, or distinguished, by what is termed, حَسَبٌ as explained above [i. e. grounds of pretension to respect or honour; &c.]: generous, liberal, honourable, or noble: bountiful, or munificent: and having a numerous household: pl. حُسَبَآءُ.
2 [Hence,] حَسِيبُكَ ٱللّٰهُ, in the L ٱللّٰهُ, [both of which phrases are used in the present day in the sense here following,] May God take, or execute, vengeance upon thee; or punish thee: meaning an imprecation though literally predicatory. [See also حُسْبَانُكَ عَلَى ٱللّٰهِ, voce حَسَبَ.]
def.2 Also Characterized, or distinguished, by what is termed, حَسَبٌ as explained above [i. e. grounds of pretension to respect or honour; &c.]: generous, liberal, honourable, or noble: bountiful, or munificent: and having a numerous household: pl. حُسَبَآءُ.