سِبٌّ
Root: سب
Full Definition
سِبٌّ
One who reviles, vilifies, upbraids, reproaches, or defames, much, being reviled, &c.; as also
مِسَبٌّ . And [simply] One's mutual reviler or vilifier &c.; as also
سَبِيبٌ
def.2 A veil, or the like; syn. سِتْرٌ.
2 A woman's muffler, or head-covering; syn. خِمَارٌ.
3 A turban. El-Mukhabbal Es-Saadee says, using it in this sense,
4 Also, and سَبِيبَةٌ , An oblong piece of cloth, or of thin cloth, or of thin linen cloth, or of white cloth: or a thin garment: or so the latter word: or this signifies a linen stuff that is brought from the region of the Nile, of a kind commonly known among the merchants by [the name of] كرخ, some of which are made in Misr, and their length is eight by six [cubits: cubits being meant because the ns. of number here are fem., and ذِرَاع is fem.]: or this same word signifies an oblong piece of cloth of any kind, or, as some say, of linen: the pl. of the former is سُبُوبٌ; and of the latter, سَبَائِبٌ: in a verse of 'Alkameh Ibn-'Abadeh, the phrase بِسَبَا الكَتَّانِ is used for بِسَبَائِبِ الكتّان.
5 See also سَبَبَ, first signification.
[Thou shalt by no means revile me; for thou art not my mutual reviler: verily he, of men, who is my mutual reviler is the generous]. [See also مُسْتَبٌّ: and سَبَّابٌ.]لَا تَسُبَّنَّنِى فَلَسْتَ بِسِبِّى إِنَّ سِبِّى مِنَ الرِّجَالِ الكَرِيمُ
def.2 A veil, or the like; syn. سِتْرٌ.
2 A woman's muffler, or head-covering; syn. خِمَارٌ.
3 A turban. El-Mukhabbal Es-Saadee says, using it in this sense,
[And I witness many persons of 'Owf, alighting during their journeys, going repeatedly to and fro to see Ez-Zibrikán's turban dyed with saffron]: for it was a custom of the chiefs of the Arabs to dye their turbans with saffron: or, as some say, the meaning is his اِسْت; [but this is correctly, or more commonly, termed سَبَّة;] and Ktr asserts that he was suspected: he says that Ez-Zibrikán used to tinge his است yellow; but this is a strange saying. (TA in art. زبرق.)وَأَشْهَدُ مِنْ عَوْفٍ حُلُولًا كَثِيرَةً يَحُجُّونَ سِبَّ الزِّبْرِقَانِ المُزَعْفَرَا
4 Also, and سَبِيبَةٌ , An oblong piece of cloth, or of thin cloth, or of thin linen cloth, or of white cloth: or a thin garment: or so the latter word: or this signifies a linen stuff that is brought from the region of the Nile, of a kind commonly known among the merchants by [the name of] كرخ, some of which are made in Misr, and their length is eight by six [cubits: cubits being meant because the ns. of number here are fem., and ذِرَاع is fem.]: or this same word signifies an oblong piece of cloth of any kind, or, as some say, of linen: the pl. of the former is سُبُوبٌ; and of the latter, سَبَائِبٌ: in a verse of 'Alkameh Ibn-'Abadeh, the phrase بِسَبَا الكَتَّانِ is used for بِسَبَائِبِ الكتّان.
5 See also سَبَبَ, first signification.
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