Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

[تَبَّ, aor. ـِ {يَتْبِبُ}, inf. n. تَبٌّ, and perhaps تَبَبٌ↓ andتَبَابٌ↓ andتَبِيبٌ↓, He, or it, suffered loss, or diminution; or became lost: and perished, or died: as alsoتبّب↓, inf. n. تَتْبِيبٌ: and app. تُبَّ also.] تَبٌّ (M, A, Ḳ) andتَتْبِيبٌ↓ (M, Ḳ) [as inf. ns.] signify The suffering loss, or diminution; or being lost: and perishing, or dying: or [used as substs.] loss, or diminution; or the state of being lost: and perdition, or death: (M,* A, Ḳ:*) and soتَبَابٌ↓, (T, Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) [said to be] a subst. from تَبَّبَهُ, with teshdeed, (Mṣb,) andتَبَبٌ↓ andتَبِيبٌ↓: (Ḳ:) or the last three signify [simply] perdition, or death: (M:) andتَتْبِيبٌ↓ is explained as signifying loss, or diminution, that brings, or leads, to perdition or death; (IAth, TA;) and soتَبَابٌ↓; (Bḍ in cxi. 1;) and the causing to perish. (T, TA.) Hence you say, تَبَّ تَبَابًا↓ [meaning, in an emphatic manner, May he suffer loss, or be lost, or perish]. (Ṣ.) And تَبًّا لَهُ May God decree to him loss, or perdition; or cause loss, or perdition, to cleave to him: (Ṣ, M,* Mṣb,* Ḳ:*) تَبًّا being in the accus. case as an inf. n. governed by a verb understood. (Ṣ.) Andتَبًّا تَبِيبًا↓, [in the CK تَتْبِيبًا,] meaning the same in an intensive, or emphatic, manner: (M, Ḳ:) andتَبًّا تَبَابًا↓. (TA.) And تَبَّتْ يَدَاهُ, (T, Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) and تَبَّتْ يَدُهُ,, aor. ـِ {يَتْبِبُ}, (Mṣb,) inf. n. تَبٌّ andتَبَابٌ↓, but IDrd says that the former of these seems to be the inf. n., and the latter the simple subst., (M,) May his arms, or hands, and his arm, or hand, suffer loss, or be lost, or perish: (T, M, Mṣb, Ḳ, and Bḍ in cxi. 1:) or ‡ may he himself suffer loss,, &c., (Mṣb,* and Bḍ ubi suprà,) i. e., ‡ his whole person: (Jel in cxi. 1:) or ‡ his good in the present life and that in the life to come. (Bḍ ubi suprà.)

[Hence,] تَبَّ (A, TA) andتَبْتَبَ↓ (T, Ḳ) ‡ He became an old man: (T, A, Ḳ:) the loss of youth being likened to تَبَابَ. (TA.)

تَبَّ, [aor., accord. to rule, ـُ,] He cut, or cut off, a thing. (Ḳ.) And تُبَّ It was cut, or cut off. (TA.)

تبّب, inf. n. تَتْبِيبٌ: see 1, in three places.

تبّبهُ (inf. n. as above, Ṣ,) [He caused him to suffer loss, or to become lost: or] he destroyed him, or killed him. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

He said to him تَبًّا: (M, Ḳ:*) [i. e.] he imprecated loss, or perdition, or death, upon him. (A.)

اتبّ ٱللّٰهُ قُوَّتَهُ ‡ God weakened, or impaired, or may God weaken, or impair, his strength. (Ḳ, TA.)

استتبّ ‡ It (a road) became beaten, or trodden, and rendered even, or easy to walk or ride upon, or easy and direct. (A.)

‡ It (an affair) was, or became, rightly disposed or arranged; in a right state: (Ṣ, M, A, Mṣb:) or it followed a regular, or right, course; was in a right state; and clear, or plain: from مُسْتَتِبٌّ applied to a road, explained below: (T, TA:) or it became complete, and in a right state: lit. it demanded loss, or diminution, or destruction; because these sometimes follow completeness: (Ḥar p. 35:) or the ب may be a substitute for م; the meaning being استتمّ. (TA.)

تَبْتَبَ: see 1.

تِبَّةٌ A difficult, or distressing, state or condition. (Ḳ.)

تَبُّوبٌ i. q. مَهْلَكَةٌ [A place of perdition, or destruction; or a desert; or a desert such as is termed مَفَازَة]. (Ḳ.)

[It is also said in the Ḳ to signify What the ribs infold: but I think it probable that this meaning has been assigned to it from its having been found erroneously written for تَبُوتٌ, a dial. var. of تَابُوتٌ.]

تَابٌّ ‡ An old man; (AZ, T, M, A, Ḳ;) fem. with ة {تَابَّةٌ}: (AZ, T, M, A:) and † weak: pl. أَتْبَابٌ: of the dial. of Hudheyl; and extr. [with respect to analogy]. (M.) You say, كُنْتُ شَابًّا فَصِرْتُ تَابًّا [I was a young man, and I have become an old man]. (A.) And أَشَابَّةٌ أَنْتِ أَمْ تَابَّةٌ [Art thou a young woman or an old woman?] (A.)

Also, (T, Ḳ,) or تَابُّ الظَّهْرِ, (T,) † An ass, and a camel, having galls, or sores, on his back: (T, Ḳ:) pl. as above. (Ḳ.)

[See also بَاتٌّ.]

مُسْتَتِبٌّ, applied to a road, ‡ Furrowed by passengers, so that it is manifest to him who travels along it; and to this is likened an affair that is clear, or plain, and in a right state. (T.) [See the verb, 10.]