غَرْبِيبٌ
Root: غرب
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غَرْبِيبٌ
One of the most excellent kinds of grapes; a sort of grapes growing at Et-Táïf, in-
2 Applied to an old man, Intensely black [app. in the hair]: or whose hair does not become white, or hoary: or, so applied, who blackens his white, or hoary, hair with dye: occurring in a trad., in which it is said that God hates such an old man: pl. غَرَابِيبُ.
3 أَسْوَدُ غِرْبِيبٌ means Intensely black: but if you say غَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ, you make the latter word a substitute for the former; because a word corroborative of one signifying a colour cannot precede; nor can the corroborative of any word: or, accord. to Hr, غَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ [in the Kur xxxv. 25], relating to mountains, means Streaks having black rocks.
2 Applied to an old man, Intensely black [app. in the hair]: or whose hair does not become white, or hoary: or, so applied, who blackens his white, or hoary, hair with dye: occurring in a trad., in which it is said that God hates such an old man: pl. غَرَابِيبُ.
3 أَسْوَدُ غِرْبِيبٌ means Intensely black: but if you say غَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ, you make the latter word a substitute for the former; because a word corroborative of one signifying a colour cannot precede; nor can the corroborative of any word: or, accord. to Hr, غَرَابِيبُ سُودٌ [in the Kur xxxv. 25], relating to mountains, means Streaks having black rocks.
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