Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

ثَبَنَ الثَّوْبَ, aor. ـِ {يَثْبِنُ}, inf. n. ثَبْنٌ and ثِبَانٌ, He folded the extremity of the garment, and sewed it; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) [he made a tuck in the garment, to shorten it;] like خَبَنَهُ: (Ṣ:) or, (Ḳ,) i. e. ثَبَنَ, (TA,) he put a thing into the receptacle [thereof] and carried it before him; as alsoتثبّن↓: and in like manner, he folded and sewed over a thing the doubled upper border of his trousers in front: (Ḳ,* TA:) orتثبّن↓ شَيْئًا has this last meaning; and signifies also he put a thing into a ثِبَان [q. v.] and carried it before him: (Ṣ:) and ثَبَنَ فِى ثَوْبِهِ, aor. and inf. ns. as above; (M;) andاثبن↓ فِيهِ, (M, Ḳ, as in the CK,) accord. to [some of] the copies of the Ḳ اثتبن, but the former is the right reading; (TA;) andثبّن↓; (M;) he put a thing into the receptacle [thereof] and carried it before him [in his garment]: (M, Ḳ:*) [see also أَخْبَنَ:] or you say,ثبّنهُ↓ فِى ثَوْبِهِ he made it a ثِبَان (or thing carried [before him]) in his garment: (T:) andتثبّن↓ ثِبَانًا he made a receptacle in which he [so] carried a thing before him. (T.)

ثِبَانٌ A receptacle, such as when one folds the skirt of his shirt and puts in it a thing and carries it before him: (Ṣ:) or the part, of the garment, which is the place wherein one carries, when he wraps it around his body, or puts a portion thereof under his right shoulder and another portion over his left shoulder, then folds before him a part of it, and puts a thing in it; as alsoثُبْنَةٌ↓: (M:) or the part, of one's garment, which is the place wherein he carries; folding its extremity, and sewing it, before him, and then putting in it some dates or other things: as alsoثَبِينٌ↓ andثُبْنَةٌ↓: (Ḳ:) and the extremity of the [garment called] رِدَآء when one folds it before him and sews it [and puts a thing in it to carry]: (M:) or a receptacle in which one carries a thing before him; (T:) andثُبْنَةٌ↓, of which the pl. is ثُبَانٌ, (T,) or its pl. is ثُبَنٌ, like as the pl of خُبْنَةٌ [which has a similar meaning] is خُبَنٌ, (Ḥar p. 427,) the doubled upper border of the trousers or waist-wrapper, in which one carries [before him] fruit and other things: [see also خُبْنَةٌ:] or, as some say, ثِبَانٌ does not signify a receptacle, but dates that are put and carried in a receptacle or some other thing: and sometimes what a man carries in his sleeve; andثُبْنَةٌ↓ signifies only what one carries before him, that is little in quantity: and what is great is not called ثِبَانٌ. (T.) It is said in a trad. of ʼOmar, إِذَا مَرَّ أَحَدُكُمْ بِحَائِطٍ فَلْيَأْكُلْ مِنْهُ وَلَا يَتَّخِذْ ثِبَانًا [When any one of you passes by a garden of palm-trees, let him eat thereof, but not take for himself, or make, a ثبان]: i. e., when a necessitous hungry person passes by a man's garden of palm-trees, he may eat of their dates what will repel his hunger. (T. [See also another reading voce خُبْنَةٌ.]) And one says, قَدِمَ فُلَانٌ بِثِبَانٍ فِى ثَوْبِهِ مَا أَدْرِى مَا هُوَ [Such a one came with a ثبان in his garment: I know not what it was]. (T.)

مَثْبَنَةٌ A bag in which a woman puts her mirror and apparatus: (M, Ḳ:) of the dial. of El-Yemen. (M.)