شعب

شَعَبَ

To gather, collect, unite, or bring together; or, conversely, to separate, divide, disunite, or disperse.

The two opposed meanings are reported as dialectal alternatives or as opposed usages. Figuratively, the verb can describe a group becoming united or divided and affairs being broken up or disordered.

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شَعَبَ

To repair or mend a cracked object; in the opposing usage, to crack, impair, corrupt, or mar it.

The opposition is reported as a dialectal difference.

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شَعَبَ

To give or allot a portion of property.

The object is a portion broken off or set apart from a larger holding.

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شَعَبَ

To send or dispatch a messenger to a person or place.

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شَعَبَ

To turn or send someone or something away or back; to restrain or divert from a direction.

The verb is used of a bridle turning or withholding a horse.

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شَعَبَ

To divert or occupy someone by engaging the person's attention.

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شَعَبَ

To turn or yearn toward another group while leaving one's companions.

The construction شَعَبَ إِلَيْهِمْ describes moving emotionally or socially toward others and quitting one's former companions.

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شَعَبَ

To appear or become distinct from others.

This meaning is given in connection with the name of the month Shaʿbān.

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شَعَبَ

Of a camel, to crop the upper parts of trees or shrubs.

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شَعِبَ

To be wide-spaced between the horns or shoulders.

The usage is applied to a goat or gazelle and describes the breadth between its horns or shoulders.

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شَعَّبَ

To gather or separate several things, or to do so extensively.

The intensive or plural-object sense is associated with the Form II pattern.

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شَعَّبَ

To repair several cracks or repair an object in several places; conversely, to crack or impair in several places.

The derived form can indicate multiplicity of the repaired or damaged parts.

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شَعَّبَ

To branch forth or fork after having produced leaves or blades.

The verb is also used figuratively of evil growing into branches or ramifications.

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شَاعَبَ

To become distant or remote from a companion; figuratively, to quit life or die.

The expressions شَاعَبَ الحَيَاةَ and شَاعَبَتْ نَفْسُهُ are idiomatic applications of departure and separation.

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أَشْعَبَ

To die, or to separate oneself from another or others so as not to return.

The form can describe irreversible departure as well as death.

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تَشَعَّبَ

To become gathered or united, or to become separated, divided, dispersed, branched, or distant.

The verb is used of people, roads, rivers, tree branches, and other things that divide or branch; it can also describe affairs becoming disordered.

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تَشَعَّبَ

To become closed up or repaired; conversely, to become cracked, corrupted, impaired, or marred.

The derived form is used of a cracked object or, more generally, of a condition becoming rectified or damaged.

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شَعْبٌ

Collection or union, or separation, division, or disunion.

As a verbal noun, it denotes the action or resulting state of gathering or separating.

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شَعْبٌ

A great tribe or major tribal division, comprising or standing above subordinate tribal groups; also a nation, people, race, or family.

In genealogical classifications, a شَعْب is a large ancestral division above such units as قبيلة and فصيلة. Its plural شُعُوب may also be applied especially to foreign peoples.

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شَعْبٌ

Distance or remoteness; distant or remote.

The noun and adjectival use occur in expressions describing a remote dwelling or distant water.

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شَعْبٌ

A crack or split in a thing.

The crack is the kind that may be repaired by a specialist or by a repair piece.

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شَعْبٌ

The place where the principal bones of the head join—the cranial suture.

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شَعْبٌ

A likeness or a pair of similar things.

The expression هُمَا شَعْبَانِ is used of two things or persons that resemble one another.

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شِعْبٌ

A road or path, especially a mountain road or pass; also a ravine, gap, or watercourse between elevated areas.

The word was first applied particularly to a mountain route and was later extended to roads generally and to channels through valleys.

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شِعْبٌ

A reef or rocky projection in the sea connected with the shore.

A reef separated from the shore by a bowshot is distinguished by another term in the cited usage.

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شِعْبٌ

A distinctive hot-iron brand or mark placed on camels.

The form and placement of the brand vary among the descriptions reported for this term.

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شَعَبٌ

Width or a wide interval between horns, shoulders, or branches.

The term denotes the breadth separating the relevant paired structures.

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شُعْبَةٌ

The space or interstice between two horns or between two branches.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A cleft or recess in a mountain to which birds resort.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A branch, branchlet, shoot, sprig, or other offshoot from a larger thing.

The term can denote the extremity or divaricating part of a tree branch, a sprig of aromatic plants, or a lock or flock of hair or wool.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A fork, prong, tine, cusp, or other projecting part.

The usage includes the forked parts of a staff, the upright parts of a camel saddle, the prongs of a roasting instrument, a tooth of a sickle, and a cusp of the letter س.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A finger, especially in the plural شُعَب.

This is a figurative application to the projecting divisions of the hand.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A conventional expression for approaching sexually or having sexual intercourse.

The expression involving sitting between the relevant bodily divisions is an allusion to intercourse.

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شُعْبَةٌ

An outer or prominent region of a horse's body.

The cited applications include such prominent regions as the neck, withers, and hip crests.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A small watercourse or channel, or a branch of a larger torrent-bed or valley channel.

The term may denote a small channel, a watercourse in sand, or a branch taking a different course from a valley or torrent-bed.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A portion, part, piece, or subdivision of a thing.

This general sense includes a portion of property and a part of an abstract whole, as well as the Quranic division specified separately above.

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شُعْبَةٌ

A piece or patch used to repair a cracked wooden bowl or similar object.

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شُعْبَةٌ

Intentions, designs, or purposes that diverge; alternatively, the vicissitudes that divide a formerly unified group.

This poetic usage is explicitly disputed: one interpretation takes the word as intentions or designs, while another takes it as changes of fortune.

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شَعْبَانُ

The eighth month of the Arabian year.

The name is explained either by people dispersing in search of water or on expeditions, or by the month appearing between Rajab and Ramadan.

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شَعْبَانُ

A particular insect, a species of grasshopper or locust.

The expression غَزَالُ شَعْبَانَ names this insect.

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شَعُوبُ

Death, personified as that which separates people.

The word may occur as a proper name or with the definite article in the cited usages.

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شَعِيبٌ

A repaired, pieced, or worn leather water- or milk-skin.

The item may be made from two joined hides, patched with an additional skin, or otherwise sewn and repaired.

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شَعِيبٌ

A camel saddle.

The term is explained through the joining of its component parts.

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شَعِيبٌ

A stranger or outsider.

The cited expression applies the adjective to a person described as غريب.

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شِعَابَةٌ

The craft or practice of repairing cracks in wooden bowls or similar objects.

The repair is performed by piecing or closing the cracks.

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الشُّعُوبِيَّةُ

A sect or movement concerning the relative standing of Arabs and non-Arabs.

The term is variously described as rejecting preference for Arabs, preferring non-Arabs, or disparaging Arab social conditions.

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شَعَّابٌ

A person who repairs cracks by piecing or mending the damaged object.

The usual object is a wooden bowl or similar vessel.

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الشَّاعِبَانِ

The two shoulders.

The term is dialectal and is explained by their being wide apart.

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أَشْعَبُ

Wide-spaced between the horns.

The adjective is applied to a goat or gazelle and may also relate to breadth between the shoulders.

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أَشْعَبُ

A proverbial epithet for an extremely covetous or acquisitive person.

The usage derives from the personal name of the proverbial Ashʿab and occurs in expressions comparing someone with him.

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مَشْعَبٌ

A way, road, or path branching off from another; figuratively, a way that distinguishes truth from falsehood.

The expression مَشْعَبُ الحَقِّ denotes the way of truth.

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مِشْعَبٌ

An instrument for repairing a crack by piecing an object, and an instrument for perforating, such as a drill.

It is the tool used by a repairer of cracked vessels.

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قَصْعَةٌ مُشَعَّبَةٌ

A wooden bowl repaired in several places by closing or piecing its cracks.

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مَشْعُوبٌ

Marked with the camel-brand called شِعْب.

The adjective is applied to a camel or group of camels bearing that mark.

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