Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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صطب صعب صعتر


1. ⇒ صعب

صَعُبَ, (Ṣ, A, MA, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَصْعُبُ}, (A, Ḳ,) inf. n. صُعُوبَةٌ; (Ṣ, MA, Mṣb, Ḳ;) andاستصعب↓; (Ṣ, A, MA, Mṣb, Ḳ;) andاصعب↓, (IAạr, Ḳ,) inf. n. إِصْعَابٌ; (IAạr, TA;) It (a thing, Mṣb, or an affair, or event, Ṣ, MA, Mṣb, Ḳ) was, or became, صَعْب, (Ṣ, A, &c.,) i. e. difficult, hard, hard to be done or accomplished, hard to be borne or endured, or distressing. (A, MA, Ḳ.) One says,استصعب↓ عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ, (Ṣ, MA, Mṣb,) like صَعُبَ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) The affair, or event, was, or became, difficult,, &c., to him. (MA.)


2. ⇒ صعّب

صعّبهُ, (Ḳ,) inf. n. تَصْعِيبٌ; (TA;) [and] اصعبهُ↓, (A,) inf. n. إِصْعَابٌ; (KL;) andتصعّبهُ↓; (Ḳ;) He made, or rendered, it صَعْب, (A, Ḳ,) i. e. difficult, hard,, &c. (A, Ḳ, KL.)


4. ⇒ اصعب

اصعب: see 1.

Root: صعب - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

Said of a camel, He was, or became, صَعْب [meaning refractory, or untractable]: (Ḳ, TA:) [and in like manner one says استصعب↓: (see its contr. استصحب:) andتصعّب↓, which is also said of a man:] and اصعب said of a camel, he was unridden, (A, TA,) and untouched by a rope. (A.)

Root: صعب - Entry: 4. Signification: A3

Also, said of a man, His camel was, or became, refractory, or untractable. (L, TA.)

Root: صعب - Entry: 4. Dissociation: B

اصعبهُ: see 2.

Root: صعب - Entry: 4. Signification: B2

Also He left him (i. e. a camel) unridden, (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA,) and untouched by a rope, so that he became refractory, or untractable. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) [See مُصْعَبٌ].

Root: صعب - Entry: 4. Signification: B3

And He found it (i. e. an affair, or event, Ṣ, Mṣb, or a thing, Ḳ) to be صَعْب [i. e. difficult, hard,, &c.]; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoاستصعبهُ↓: (Mṣb, Ḳ:) or both signify he saw it, or held it, to be so. (TA.) [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited voce رَيْثٌ.]


5. ⇒ تصعّب

تصعّب, intrans.: see 4.

Root: صعب - Entry: 5. Dissociation: B

تصعّبهُ: see 2.


10. ⇒ استصعب

استصعب, intrans.: see 1, in two places:

Root: صعب - Entry: 10. Signification: A2
Root: صعب - Entry: 10. Dissociation: B

استصعبهُ: see 4.


صَعْبٌ

صَعْبٌ Difficult, hard, hard to be done or accomplished, hard to be borne or endured, or distressing; (A, MA, Ḳ;) contr. of سَهْلٌ; (Mgh, TA;) as alsoصُعْبُوبٌ↓: (T, O, Ḳ, TA:) pl. of the former صِعَابٌ; (Mṣb;) and of the latter, صَعَابِيبُ. (T, TA.) One says أَمْرٌ صَعْبٌ A difficult, hard, or distressing, affair or event. (A.) And عَقَبَةٌ صَعْبَةٌ (thus in the A, but in the Mṣb and TA without any syll. signs,) [A mountainroad] difficult, hard, or distressing: (TA:) pl. عِقَابٌ صِعَابٌ (A, Mṣb *) and صَعْبَاتٌ with sukoon [to the ع because the word is an epithet; for if it were a subst., it would be صَعَبَاتٌ]. (Mṣb.) [Or عُقْبَةٌ صَعْبَةٌ may perhaps be meant in the TA, i. e. A difficult, hard, or distressing, stage of a journey.]

Root: صعب - Entry: صَعْبٌ Signification: A2

Also Refractory, untractable, incompliant, obstinate, or stubborn; (Ḳ,* TA;) contr. of ذَلُولٌ; (Ṣ, A, TA;) applied to a camel, (Ṣ, A,) or to a beast; (TA;) [and to a man;] fem. صَعْبَةٌ, (Ṣ, TA,) which is applied to a woman: (Ṣ:) and the pl. of this is صِعَابٌ, [as of the masc.,] (TA,) and صَعْبَاتٌ, applied to women, with sukoon [to the ع because the word is an epithet]. (Ṣ, TA.) رَكِبَ النَّاسُ الصَّعْبَةَ وَالذَّلُولَ, occurring in a trad. of I’Ab, [lit. The people rode the refractory and the tractable she-camel,] means † the people entered upon difficult and easy affairs; i. e. they cared not for things, nor were cautious respecting what they said and did. (L, TA.)

Root: صعب - Entry: صَعْبٌ Signification: A3

[Hence,] الصَّعْبُ The lion; (O, Ḳ;) because of his untractableness. (TA.)


صُعْبُوبٌ

صُعْبُوبٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, first sentence, in two places.


صَاعِبٌ

صَاعِبٌ Land containing stones such as fill the hand, and other stones, which is tilled, or cultivated. (Ḳ, TA.)


مُصْعَبٌ

مُصْعَبٌ A stallion [of camels]: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) and a camel, (Ṣ, A,) or a stallion [of camels], (ISk, TA,) left unridden, and untouched by a rope, (ISk, Ṣ, A, TA,) so as to become refractory, or untractable: (Ṣ:) or an unbroken camel, upon whose back nothing is allowed to be put: (L, TA:) pl. مَصَاعِبُ and مَصَاعِيبُ. (ISk, TA.)

Root: صعب - Entry: مُصْعَبٌ Signification: A2

It is also applied as an epithet to a man, (A, Mṣb, TA,) meaning مَسَوَّدٌ [i. e. † Made a chief or lord, &c.]: (TA:) pl. مَصَاعِبُ. (A, Mṣb.) One says, فُلَانٌ مُصْعَبٌ مِنَ المَصَاعِبِ[Such a man is one of those who have been made chiefs or lords, &c.]; like as one says, قَرْمٌ مِنَ القُرُومِ. (A.)


مُصْعِبٌ

مُصْعِبٌ A man whose camel is refractory, or untractable: occurring in a trad. (L, TA.)


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