Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَصِيبٌ

Root: عصب

Full Definition

عَصِيبٌ Lights [of an animal] bound round with guts, and then roasted, or broiled: pl. [of pauc.] أَعْصِبَةٌ and [of mult.] عُصُبٌ. And Such as are twisted, of the guts of a sheep or goat. And its pl. عُصُبٌ, Guts of a sheep or goat, folded, and put together, and then put into one of the winding guts of the belly.

def.2 Also, and عَصَبْصَبٌ A vehement, or severe, day: or a vehemently-hot day: and the former is in like manner applied to a night (لَيْلَة), without ة: and ↓ the latter signifies also a cold, and very cloudy, day, in which nothing is seen of the sky.


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