شَاحِبٌ
Root: شحب
Full Definition
شَاحِبٌ
A man having his colour, or complexion, altered [for the worse, wan, or haggard], or so
شَاحِبُ اللَّوْنِ, in consequence of disease, or travel, or the like: and emaciated, or lean; as also
شَحِبٌ . It is said in a trad., لَا تَلْقَى المُؤْمِنَ إِلَّا
شَاحِبًا [Thou wilt not find the believer otherwise than wan, or haggard; or emaciated, or lean]; because شُحُوب is one of the effects of fear, and of paucity of food, and of little enjoying of plentifulness and pleasantness or easiness, and softness or delicacy, of life.
2 It is also applied as an epithet to a sword, meaning Altered in its colour by blood that has dried upon it: used in this sense by the poet Taäbbata-sharrà.
2 It is also applied as an epithet to a sword, meaning Altered in its colour by blood that has dried upon it: used in this sense by the poet Taäbbata-sharrà.
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