غَرْبَلَهُ

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غَرْبَلَهُ

Q. 1 Verbal.Noun غَرْبَلَةٌ, He sifted it; i. q. نَخَلَهُ; namely, flour, &c., or earth, or mould.
2 And [hence, app.,] He dispersed it, or scattered it.
3 And He cut it, or severed it; syn. قَطَعَهُ: or he cut it in pieces; syn. قَطَّعَهُ.
4 And غربل القَوْمَ He slew, and crushed [lit. ground], the people, or company of men. Hence the saying, in a trad., كَيْفَ بِكُمْ إِذَا كُنْتُمْ فِى زَمَانٍ يُغَرْبَلُ النَّاسُ فِيهِ i. e. [How will it be with you when ye shall be in a time when men] shall be slain, and crushed? or the meaning is, when the best of them shall be taken away and the worst of them shall remain; like as is done by the sifter of wheat? or, in the opinion of Suh, as he says in the R, when they shall be searched to the utmost, and pursued one after another? agreeably with the saying of Mek- hool Ed-Dimashkee, دَخَلْتُ الشَّأْمَ فَغَرْبَلْتُهَا غَرْبَلَةً حَتَّى لَمْ أَدَعْ عِلْمًا إِلَّا حَوَيْتُهُ [I entered Syria, and searched it to the utmost in such a manner that I left not a science but I acquired it].
5 And غُرْبِلَ القَتِيلُ The slain man became swollen, or inflated, and raised his legs.

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