شُؤْبُوبٌ
Root: شأب
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شُؤْبُوبٌ
A shower, or fall, or what pours forth at once or without intermission, of rain &c.: or of rain with hail; for otherwise this term is not applied to rain: pl. شَآبِيبُ: this is the pl. of شُؤْبُوبٌ in all its senses: or rain that falls upon one place and misses another; like نَجْوٌ and نَجَآءٌ.
2 [A thin, not wide, cloud, of which the rain falls with vehemence. ]
3 A heat, or an unintermitted act, of running.
4 Sharpness, vehemence, force, or strength, of anything: violence, or vehemence, of impetus or pushing or driving, of rain, or of anything. Kaab Ibn-Zuheyr says, speaking of a he-ass and she-asses,
5 The first appearance [or bloom] of beauty. One says of a girl, or young woman, إِنَّهَا لَحَسَنَهُ شَآبِيبِ الوَجْهِ Verily she is goodly in respect of the first appearances [or bloomings] of beauty of countenance in the eye of the beholder.
6 The vehemence of the heat of the sun.
7 And The طَرِيقَة of the sun: شَآبِيبُ الشَّمْسِ signifies the lines, or streaks, (طَرَائِق,) of the sun when it rises.
8 شَآبِيبُ الصَّمْغِ What flows, of the [manna, or gum, called] مِغْفَر [q. v.], and remains like strings, or threads, between the trees and the ground. [See also مَعَابِيبُ.]
2 [A thin, not wide, cloud, of which the rain falls with vehemence. ]
3 A heat, or an unintermitted act, of running.
4 Sharpness, vehemence, force, or strength, of anything: violence, or vehemence, of impetus or pushing or driving, of rain, or of anything. Kaab Ibn-Zuheyr says, speaking of a he-ass and she-asses,
i. e. When he runs vehemently [towards them, or rather when his vehemence of running is directed towards them], thou seest a wrinkling [or wrinkles] in his جَاعِرَتَانِ [dual of جَاعِرَةٌ, q. v.].إِذَا مَا ٱنْتَحَاهُنَّ شُؤْبُوبُهُ رَأَيْتَ لِجَاعِرَتَيْهِ غُضُونَا
5 The first appearance [or bloom] of beauty. One says of a girl, or young woman, إِنَّهَا لَحَسَنَهُ شَآبِيبِ الوَجْهِ Verily she is goodly in respect of the first appearances [or bloomings] of beauty of countenance in the eye of the beholder.
6 The vehemence of the heat of the sun.
7 And The طَرِيقَة of the sun: شَآبِيبُ الشَّمْسِ signifies the lines, or streaks, (طَرَائِق,) of the sun when it rises.
8 شَآبِيبُ الصَّمْغِ What flows, of the [manna, or gum, called] مِغْفَر [q. v.], and remains like strings, or threads, between the trees and the ground. [See also مَعَابِيبُ.]
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