Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَشْبُوبٌ

Root: شب

Full Definition

مَشْبُوبٌ [pass. part. n. of 1]. You say نَارٌ مَشْبُوبَةٌ A fire kindled, or made to burn, burn up, burn brightly or fiercely, blaze, or flame: شَابَّةٌ in this sense is not allowable.
2 [Hence,] applied to a man, Comely, of goodly countenance; as though lighted up: bright, or fair, in complexion, and of goodly countenance; as though his countenance were lighted up with fire: pl. مَشَابِيبُ. And A man of acute mind. And طَلَعَتِ المَشْبُوبَتَانِ الزُّهَرَتَانِ [or الزَّهْرَاوَانِ?] Venus and Jupiter, so called on account of their beauty and splendour, rose.


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