Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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وَشْبٌ

وَشْبٌ [app. meaning Fleshy] is from the expression تَمْرَةٌ وَشْبَةٌ, (in one copy of the Ḳ, وَشْبَاءُ, TA,) A date having a thick لِحَآء [i. e. pulp, or flesh]. (Ḳ.) Of the dial. of El-Yemen. (TA.)


وِشْبٌ

وِشْبٌ sing. of أَوْشَابٌ, (Ḳ,) which is the same as أَوْبَاشٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and أَشْوَابٌ, (TA,) [but see this last word, in art. شوب,] and signifies, A medley, or mixed multitude; (Ḳ;) or sundry, or separate sorts of people; (Ṣ;) and young men of the baser sort. (TA.) A term of dispraise only. (Marg. note in a copy of the Ṣ.)


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