عَصَبَةٌ
Root: عصب
Full Definition
عَصَبَةٌ
n. un. of عَصَبٌ. (S, &c. [See the latter word in the paragraph headed by it and also voce عُصْبٌ.])
2 Also A man's people, or party, who league together for his defence: (K, TA: [see also عُصْبَةٌ:]) thus accord. to the leading lexicologists.
3 And The heirs of a man who has left neither parent nor offspring: and [particularly], with respect to the [portions of inheritances termed] فَرَائِض [pl. of فَرِيضَةٌ q. v.], all such as have not a فَرِيضَة named, and who receive if there remain anything after [the distribution of] the فَرَائِض: thus accord. to those who treat of the فرائض, and accord. to the [other] lawyers: or the relations by the side of the males: this is the meaning of what is said by the leading lexicologists: or, as is said by Az, a man's heirs consisting of male relations: or his sons, and relations on the father's side: so called because they encompass him; the father being a طَرَف [i. e. an extremity in the right line], and so the son, and the paternal uncle being a جَانِب [i. e. a collateral relation], and so the brother: or a man's relations on the father's side; because they encompass him and he is strengthened by them: afterwards it became applied to a single person as well as to a pl. number, and both a male and a female: or the lawyers apply it to a single person when there is no other than he, because he stands in the place of the collective number in receiving the whole of the property; and in the language of the law it is applied to a female in certain cases relating to emancipation and inheritances, but not otherwise either in the proper language or in the language of the law: and عُصُوبَةٌ is used as its Verbal.Noun [meaning the state of being persons, or a person, to whom the term عَصَبَةٌ is applied]: it is said [by Az] in the T, “ I have not heard any sing. of عَصَبَةٌ: accord. to analogy it should be عَاصِبٌ, like as طَالِبٌ is sing. of طَلَبَةٌ: ” (TA: [and the like is also said in the Mgh: in the Msb it is said that عَصَبَةٌ is pl. of عَاصِبٌ, like as كَفَرَةٌ is pl. of كَافِرٌ:]) the pl. is عَصَبَاتٌ.
2 Also A man's people, or party, who league together for his defence: (K, TA: [see also عُصْبَةٌ:]) thus accord. to the leading lexicologists.
3 And The heirs of a man who has left neither parent nor offspring: and [particularly], with respect to the [portions of inheritances termed] فَرَائِض [pl. of فَرِيضَةٌ q. v.], all such as have not a فَرِيضَة named, and who receive if there remain anything after [the distribution of] the فَرَائِض: thus accord. to those who treat of the فرائض, and accord. to the [other] lawyers: or the relations by the side of the males: this is the meaning of what is said by the leading lexicologists: or, as is said by Az, a man's heirs consisting of male relations: or his sons, and relations on the father's side: so called because they encompass him; the father being a طَرَف [i. e. an extremity in the right line], and so the son, and the paternal uncle being a جَانِب [i. e. a collateral relation], and so the brother: or a man's relations on the father's side; because they encompass him and he is strengthened by them: afterwards it became applied to a single person as well as to a pl. number, and both a male and a female: or the lawyers apply it to a single person when there is no other than he, because he stands in the place of the collective number in receiving the whole of the property; and in the language of the law it is applied to a female in certain cases relating to emancipation and inheritances, but not otherwise either in the proper language or in the language of the law: and عُصُوبَةٌ is used as its Verbal.Noun [meaning the state of being persons, or a person, to whom the term عَصَبَةٌ is applied]: it is said [by Az] in the T, “ I have not heard any sing. of عَصَبَةٌ: accord. to analogy it should be عَاصِبٌ, like as طَالِبٌ is sing. of طَلَبَةٌ: ” (TA: [and the like is also said in the Mgh: in the Msb it is said that عَصَبَةٌ is pl. of عَاصِبٌ, like as كَفَرَةٌ is pl. of كَافِرٌ:]) the pl. is عَصَبَاتٌ.
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