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Multiple Lane's Lexicon entries share the spelling ورب, distinguished by diacritics. Select the entry that matches the word you're looking for.

• وَرِبَ Form 1

  وَرِبَI , Present.T يَوْرَبُ, Verbal.Noun وَرَبٌ, It, or he, was, or became, corrupt.…

• ورّب Form 2

  ورّبII , Verbal.Noun تَوْرِيبٌ, [app., He expressed himself respecting a thing equivocally, or ambiguously, by words objectionable in one sense, and allowable in another: so thinks IbrD:] the Verbal.Noun is thus explaine…

• وَرْبٌ

  وَرْبٌ The hole of a wild beast: pl. أَوْرَابٌ. 2 وَرْبٌ The space between two ribs; مَا بَيْنَ الضِّلَعَيْنِ: but this I find not in any other book than the K; and probably it should be ما بين إِصْبَعَيْنِ the space bet…

• وِرْبٌ

  وِرْبٌ : see وَرْبٌ.…

• وَرِبٌ

  وَرِبٌ Corrupt. 2 عِرْقٌ وَرِب A corrupt root, origin, or stock. Aboo-Dharrah El-Hudhalee says, إِنْ تَنْتَسِتْ تُنْسَبْ إِلَى عِرْقٍ وَرِبْ [If thou mention thy lineage, thy lineage is traced up to a corrupt origin, or …