رِبَاطٌ
Root: ربط
Full Definition
رِبَاطٌ
A thing with which one ties, binds, or makes fast, a skin, and a beast, &c.; a rope with which a beast is tied: pl. رُبُطٌ and رُبْطٌ; the latter a contraction of the former: and
مِرْبَطٌ and
مِرْبَطَةٌ also signify a thing with which a beast is tied. It is said in a prov., إِنْ ذَهَبَ عَيْرٌ فَعَيْرٌ فِى الرِّبَاطِ [If an ass is gone away, an ass is tied to the cord]: relating to contentment with what is present and relinquishment of what is absent. [See also 3.]
2 [Hence,] used by the vulgar in the sense of أُخْذَةٌ, meaning
3 A snare for catching game. You say, قَطَعَ الظَّبْىُ رِبَاطَهُ [The gazelle rent his snare].
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def.2 See also رَبِيطٌ, in three places.
def.3 A single building of those which are called رِبَاطَاتٌ: [a public building for the accommodation of travellers and their beasts; (see بَرِيدٌ;) an application well known, and mentioned in the TK:] a religious house, or house inhabited by devotees; a dwelling for Soofees; [a hospice, or an asylum for poor Muslim students and others, like زَاوِيَةٌ;] a building for the poor: in this sense post-classical: pl., accord. to analogy, رُبُطٌ and رِبَاطَاتٌ.
2 [Hence,] used by the vulgar in the sense of أُخْذَةٌ, meaning
3 A snare for catching game. You say, قَطَعَ الظَّبْىُ رِبَاطَهُ [The gazelle rent his snare].
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[And he passed the night firm in spirit].فَبَاتَ وَهْوَ ثَابِتُ الرِّبَاطِ
def.2 See also رَبِيطٌ, in three places.
def.3 A single building of those which are called رِبَاطَاتٌ: [a public building for the accommodation of travellers and their beasts; (see بَرِيدٌ;) an application well known, and mentioned in the TK:] a religious house, or house inhabited by devotees; a dwelling for Soofees; [a hospice, or an asylum for poor Muslim students and others, like زَاوِيَةٌ;] a building for the poor: in this sense post-classical: pl., accord. to analogy, رُبُطٌ and رِبَاطَاتٌ.
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