Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

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1. ⇒ لعب

لَعِبَ, aor. ـَ {يَلْعَبُ}, inf. n. لَعِبٌ (which is the original [and most common] form, TA) and لِعْبٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ: the latter of these inf. ns. contracted from the former, Mṣb) and لَعْبٌ (Ḳ: also contracted from the first: not heard by IḲt; but authorized by Mekkee, and, accord. to him, agreeable with a constant rule, applicable in the case of any word of a similar measure having a guttural letter as its medial radical, whether a noun or verb: TA:) and أُلْعُوبَةٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and تَلْعَابٌ; (Ḳ; but this last has an intensive, or a frequentative, signification; Ṣ;) andلعّب↓ (Ḳ) andتلعّب↓ (Ṣ, Ḳ: but this last has a frequentative [or an intensive] signification; Ṣ; [and so too has that immediately preceding it;]) andتلاعب↓; (Ḳ;) He played, sported, gamed, jested, or joked: contr. of جَدَّ, which signifies “he was serious, or in earnest.” (Ḳ.) [You say] بَيْنَهُمْ أُلْعُوبَةٌ Between them is playing, sporting, or the like. (Ḳ.) [And so]لَاعَبَهَا↓, (inf. n. مُلَاعَبَةٌ and لِعَابٌ, TA,) He played, sported, gamed, jested, or joked, with her: (Ḳ:) [he toyed, dallied, or wantoned, with her:] and لَاعَبْتُ الرَّجُلَ, inf. n. ملاعبة, I played, &c., with the man. (Ṣ)

Root: لعب - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

لَعِبَتِ الرِّيحُ بِالمَنْزِلِ, andتَلَاعَبَت↓, ‡ [The wind sported with the lighting-place, or place of abode]: i. e., obliterated the traces of it. (TA.)

Root: لعب - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

لَعِبَ بِنَا المَوْجُ [The waves sported with us]: the commotion of the waves is called “sporting” because it does not convey the voyagers to the quarter whither they desire to go. (TA, from a trad.)

Root: لعب - Entry: 1. Dissociation: B

لَعَبَ, (and لَعِبَ, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَلْعَبُ}, inf. n. لَعْبٌ; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) andالعب↓; (Ḳ;) He (a child, Ṣ) slavered; drivelled; emitted a flow of slaver or drivel from his mouth. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) The first word is the most approved: (TA:) orالعب↓ الصَّبِىُّ signifies the child became slavering, or drivelling. (Ṣ.)


3. ⇒ لاعب


4. ⇒ العب

أَلْعَبَهَا He made her to play, sport, or game, &c., (with him: accord. to the CK:) or he brought her a thing with which to play, &c. (Ḳ.)

Root: لعب - Entry: 4. Dissociation: B

5. ⇒ تلعّب

تلعّب He played time after time. (Ṣ.) See 1.


6. ⇒ تلاعب


10. ⇒ استلعب

استلعبت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree produced some unripe dates after its other we had been cut off: (Ḳ:) or produced, or put forth, a spadix or more, having yet upon it some remains of its first produce of fruit. (Aboo-Saʼeed.)


لَعْبٌ

لَعْبٌ for عَلْبٌ: see the latter.


لِعْبٌ

لِعْبٌ: see لَعِبٌ


لَعِبٌ

لَعِبٌ andلِعِبٌ↓ (with two kesrehs, agreeably with a constant rule obtaining in cases of this kind, [whereby the measure فَعِلٌ is changed into فِعِلٌ, the medial radical letter being a guttural,] TA, [but in the CK and a MṢ. copy,لِعْبٌ↓, which is also regularly changed from the first,]) andأُلْعُبَانٌ↓ andلُعَبَةٌ↓ (Ḳ) andلُعْبَةٌ↓ (TA, as from the Ḳ, [but not found by me in any copy of the latter work,]) andتِلْعِيبَةٌ↓ andتِلْعَابٌ↓ (Ḳ) andتِلْعَابَةٌ↓ (Ṣ, Ḳ) andتَلْعَابٌ↓ andتَلْعَابَةٌ↓ andتِلِعَّابٌ↓ andتِلِعَّابَةٌ↓ (Ḳ: the last like تِلِقَّامَةٌ: the ة is added to give [additional] intensiveness to the signification, as in the cases of عَلَّامَةٌ and نَسَّابَةٌ: it is also used by En-Nábighah El-Jaadee in the place of an inf. n.: TA) andلَعُوبٌ↓ [which is common to both genders] andلَعَّابٌ↓ (A, &c.) One who plays, sports, games, jests, or jokes, much, or often; a great player, sporter, &c. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


لِعِبٌ

لِعِبٌ: see لَعِبٌ.


لَعْبَةٌ

لَعْبَةٌ (Th, Ṣ) andلُعْبَةٌ↓ (ISk, Ṣ, Ḳ) A turn in play, in a game, &c.; a single act of a play or game, &c. (Ṣ, Ḳ, &c.) [You say]لِمَنَ اللُّعْبَةُ↓ [Whose turn is it to play?] with ḍammeh to the ل, because it is a subst.; (ISk;) [and]أُقْعُدْ أَفْرُغَ مِنْ هٰذِهِ اللُّعْبَةِ↓ [Sit until I finish this turn of the game]: but accord. to Th, it is better to say من هذه اللَّعْبَةِ, with fet-ḥah; because what is meant is a single turn in the game. (Ṣ.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لَعْبَةٌ Signification: A2

لَعِبْتُ لَعْبَةً وَاحِدَةً [I played one game]. (Fr.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لَعْبَةٌ Dissociation: B

اللَّعْبَةُ البَرْبَرِيَّةُ (in some copies of the Ḳ,اللُّعْبَةُ↓) A certain medicine, resembling what is called السُّورَنْجَانُ, which fattens. (Ḳ.)


لُعْبَةٌ

لُعْبَةٌ Anything with which one plays, as شِطْرَنْج and the like, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) and نَرْد. (Ṣ.) See also لَعْبَةٌ.

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعْبَةٌ Signification: A2

A man with whom one plays, sports, or jests: (Ḳ:) one who is a laughing-stock: (TA:) a stupid fellow, or fool, whom one mocks, laughs at, or ridicules; a stupid laughing-stock (Ḳ.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعْبَةٌ Signification: A3

An image or effigy [with which to play: a puppet: so the word signifies in the present day]. (Ḳ.) [It was probably sometimes applied to A crucifix. And hence, or perhaps from its resemblance to a man with outstretched arms, it is applied by some post-classical writers to A cross; and anything in the form of a cross.]

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعْبَةٌ Signification: A4

The image that is seen in the black of the eye when a thing faces it; also called عَيْرٌ. (Aboo-Tálib, in L, art. عير.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعْبَةٌ Signification: A5

لِعْبَةٌ

لِعْبَةٌ A mode, or manner, of playing, sporting, gaming, &c. You say, فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ اللِّعْبَةِ [Such a one has a good manner of playing, &c.] (Ṣ.)


لُعَبَةٌ

لُعَبَةٌ: see لَعِبٌ.


لُعَابٌ

لُعَابٌ What flows from the mouth; slaver; drivel. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعَابٌ Signification: A2

[Mucilage of plants. See Ṣ, art. لزج, &c.]

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعَابٌ Signification: A3

لُعَابُ النَّخْلِThe honey of the date-palm. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لُعَابٌ Signification: A4

لُعَابُ الشَّمْسِA thing (that one sees, TA) as though descending from the sky, at the time of the mid-day heat; (Ḳ;) what one sees in a time of intense heat, resembling cobwebs: [i. e. gossamer:] also said to be the سَرَاب, or mirage: (Ṣ:) it is what is called مُخَاطُ الشَّيْطَانِ, and سَهَامٌ, and رِيقُ الشَّمْسِ, resembling threads, seen in the air when the heat is intense and the air calm: and he who asserts the لعاب الشمس to be the سراب says what is false; for that is the سراب that is seen at mid-day resembling running water: only he knows these things who has been constantly in the deserts, and has journeyed during the mid-day heats. (Az.) [In Egypt, in very hot and calm weather, I have seen, though very rarely, great quantities of the filmy substances above mentioned, resembling delicate and silky white cobwebs, generally of stringy forms, floating in the air.]


لَعُوبٌ

جَارِيَةٌ لَعُوبٌ A playful, sportive, or gamesome, damsel: (Ṣ:) one who coquets prettily, with affected coyness: (Ḳ:) pl. لَعَائِبُ. (TA.) See also لَعِبٌ.


لَعَّابٌ

لَعَّابٌ One whose business or occupation is playing, gaming, or the like; a player by profession. (TA.) See also لَعِبٌ.


لَاعِبٌ

لَاعِبٌ Playing, sporting, gaming, jesting, or joking. (TA.) See also لَعِبٌ.

Root: لعب - Entry: لَاعِبٌ Signification: A2

لَا يَأْخُذَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ مَتَاعَ أَخِيهِ لَاعِبًا جَادًّا [By no means shall any one of you take the property of his brother in play (and) in earnest]: by this is meant taking a thing without meaning to steal it, but meaning to vex and anger the owner; so that the taker is in play with respect to theft, but in earnest in annoying. (TA, from a trad.)

Root: لعب - Entry: لَاعِبٌ Signification: A3

إِنَّمَا أَنْتَ لَاعِبٌ [Thou art only playing]: said to anyone who does what is unprofitable. (TA.)


أُلْعُوبَةٌ

أُلْعُوبَةٌ A thing with which one plays (Mz, 40th نوع.) [See also لُعْبَةٌ.]

Root: لعب - Entry: أُلْعُوبَةٌ Signification: A2

Also an inf. n. of لَعِبَ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


أُلْعَبَانٌ

أُلْعَبَانٌ: see لَعِبٌ.


مَلْعَبٌ

مَلْعَبٌ A place of playing, sporting, gaming, or the like; a place where plays, games, or sports, are performed: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) pl. مَلَاعِبُ. (TA.)

Root: لعب - Entry: مَلْعَبٌ Signification: A2

مَلَاعِبُ الرِّيحِ [pl. ‡ The sporting-places of the wind;] places where the wind blows, or has blown, vehemently: syn. مَدَارِجُهَا. (Ḳ.)

Root: لعب - Entry: مَلْعَبٌ Signification: A3

تَرَكْتُهُ فِى مَلَاعِبِ الجِنِّ[I left him in the sporting-places of the Jinn, or genii]: i. e., in such a place that he did not know where he was. (TA.)


مُلْعِبَةٌ

مُلْعِبَةٌ and (as in the CK and a MṢ. copy) مِلْعَبَةٌ↓ A garment without sleeves, in which a boy plays. (Ḳ.)


مُلَعِّبٌ

مُلَعِّبٌ [Exuding mucilage]; applied to a plant: likened to a foolish person slavering: (TA, in art. حمق.) [See البَقْلَةُ الحَمْقَاءُ in art. حمق.]


مُلَاعِبُ

مُلَاعِبُ ظِلِّهِ A certain bird; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) found in the desert; (TA;) sometimes called خَاطِفُ ظِلِّهِ, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) [see art. خطف,] because of the swiftness with which it pounces down: it has a green (or gray, أَخْضَر,) back, white belly, long wings, and short neck. (Mṣb.) Of two you say مُلَاعِبَا ظِلَّيْهِمَا; and of three, مُلَاعِبَاتُ أَظْلَالِهِنَّ; because the appellation becomes determinate. (TA. [But see ظِلٌّ.])


مَلْعُوبٌ

ثَغْرٌ مَلْعُوبٌ Teeth, or fore teeth, &c., having slaver or drivel, upon or about them. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


تَلعَابٌ / تِلْعَابٌ / تَلْعَابَةٌ / تِلْعَابَةٌ / تِلْعِيبَةٌ / تِلِعَّابٌ / تِلِعَّابَةٌ

تَلعَابٌ and تِلْعَابٌ, تَلْعَابَةٌ and تِلْعَابَةٌ, تِلْعِيبَةٌ, تِلِعَّابٌ and تِلِعَّابَةٌ: see لَعِبٌ.


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