هَبِيتٌ
Root: هبت
Full Definition
هَبِيتٌ
One in whom is sudden fright, or terror. and a shrinking (تَلَبُّذ) [by reason of fear].
2 هَبِيتٌ and مَهْبُوتٌ A cowardly man, whose intellect is quitting him: a man without intellect.
3 In the saying of a poet, نَشْوَتُهَا هَبِيتُ, quoted, limit not expl., by Th, هبيت is thought by ISd to be of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ. and to signify, شَىْءٌ يَهْبِتُ, i. e. A thing that stupefies, or renders foolish, and confounds, perplexes, or amazes, and thus stills, or quiets and causes to sleep. The poet says,
2 هَبِيتٌ and مَهْبُوتٌ A cowardly man, whose intellect is quitting him: a man without intellect.
3 In the saying of a poet, نَشْوَتُهَا هَبِيتُ, quoted, limit not expl., by Th, هبيت is thought by ISd to be of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure فَاعِلٌ. and to signify, شَىْءٌ يَهْبِتُ, i. e. A thing that stupefies, or renders foolish, and confounds, perplexes, or amazes, and thus stills, or quiets and causes to sleep. The poet says,
[he is app. describing clear and strong wine, and says, It will show thee a mote in it, if it be therein: a little after sleep, the intoxication thereof is a thing that stupefies, &c.].تُرِيكَ قَذًى بِهَا إِنْ كَانَ فِيهَا بُعَيْدَ النَّوْمِ نَشْوتُهَا هَبِيتُ
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