Arabic

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Root
ع ب س (ʕ b s)
3 terms

Verb

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عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) I (non-past يَعْبِسُ (yaʕbisu), verbal noun عَبْس (ʕabs) or عُبُوس (ʕubūs))

  1. to frown, scowl, to show a crabbed face

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عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) I (non-past يَعْبِسُ (yaʕbisu), verbal noun عَبَس (ʕabas))

  1. (obsolete) to become dirty or filthy, or have muck or urine dried upon oneself

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عَبَس (ʕabasm (obsolete)

  1. verbal noun of عَبِسَ (ʕabisa) (form I)
  2. dried urine or dung upon the tail, muck, soil
    • a. 800, أبو زيد سعيد بن أوس الأنصاري [ʔabū zayd saʕīd ibn ʔaws al-ʔanṣārīy], كتاب النوادر [Buch der Seltenheiten]:
      Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1888) Kleinere Schriften[1] (in German), volume 3, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, page 484:
      يَا كَرَوَانًا ضُكَّ فَأَكْبَأَنَّا
      فَشَنَّ بِٱلسَلْخِ فَلَمَّا شَنَّا … بَلَّ ٱلذُنَابَى عَبَسًا مُبِنَّا
      yā karawānan ḍukka faʔakbaʔannā
      fašanna bi-s-salḵi falammā šannā … balla ḏ-ḏunābā ʕabasan mubinnā
      You thick-knee! Which when bumped will clew and toss dung and having hurled … moistens the tail with sticky soil!

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عَبَسَ (ʕabasa?

  1. The 80th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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عَبْس (ʕabsm

  1. verbal noun of عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) (form I)
  2. (obsolete) synonym of بُرْنُوف (burnūf)

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