وَثَبَ
Root: وثب
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 وَثَبَ المَوْضِعَ [He leaped, or jumped, upon, or over the place].
3 وَثَبَ إِلَى الشَّرَفِ وَثْبَةً
4 وَثَبَ إِلَيْهِ [app., He leaped, or sprang up, or he hastened, to him].
5 الوُثُوبُ, except in the dial. of Himyer, signifies The act of rising, or standing up.
6 It is also much used by the vulgar as signifying The act of hastening to a thing; as observed by MF, who is wrong in saying that there is nothing in the lexicons that favours its being so used.
def.2 وَثَبَ, [Present.T يَثِبُ,] Verbal.Noun وَثْبٌ, in the dial. of Himyer signifies He sat; sat down. ثِبْ in that dial. signifies Sit; sit down. It is related that Zeyd Ibn-Abd-Allah Ibn-Dárim came as an envoy to one of the kings of Himyer, and found him at a hunting-place belonging to him, on a high mountain, and he saluted him, and mentioned to him his lineage, or relationship; whereupon the king said to him ثِبْ, meaning إِجْلِسْ, Sit; but the man thought that he commanded him to leap from the mountain; and he said, “ Thou shalt find me, O king, very obedient: ” then he leaped from the mountain, and perished. So the king said, “ What ailed him? ” And they explained to him his case, and his mistake respecting the word: upon which he said لَيْسَتْ عِنْدَنَا عَرَبِيَّتْ مَنْ دَخَلَ ظَفَارِ حَمَّرَ i. e., [“ Arabic is not current with us: ” (for, probably, in the time of this king, the term عَرَبِيَّة was only applied to the general language of Arabia:) “ whoso entereth Dhafári,] let him learn [or, rather, speak, as MF says,] the Himyeree language. ” (Mz., 16th نوع.) [The principal facts of this anecdote are also mentioned in the S, on the authority of As.] By the king's saying عَرَبِيَّتْ was meant العَرَبِيَّةُ: the ة is pronounced ت in the case of a pause in their dialect. Or, accord. to another relation of the above anecdote, the king said لَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا عَرَبِيَّتْ كَعَرَبِيَّتْكُمْ [“ Arabic like
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