عصب

عَصَبَ

To twist, wind, fold, bind, or tie something; to wrap or draw together threads, a wound, a body part, tree branches, or a cracked vessel.

The primary concrete sense; the binding may be lengthwise or around an object, and may involve several turns or a cord.

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عَصَبَ

To bind the testicles of a male animal so that they fall without extraction.

A specialized practice described of rams, goats, and other animals.

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عَصَبَ

To bind a she-camel’s thighs or the lower parts of her nostrils in order to make her yield milk copiously.

The physical restraint is also the basis of the figurative expression “to give by force.”

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عَصَبَ

To compel or extract something by force.

A figurative extension of binding, especially said of forcing a camel or person to yield.

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عَصَبَ

To draw people together and make an affair severe.

Used of an event or circumstance that gathers people and becomes hard or intense.

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عَصَبَ

To attach, attribute, or impose something upon someone.

Used figuratively of attaching disgrace to a person or binding obligations upon someone.

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عَصَبَ

To grasp or seize something with the hand.

The object may be an opponent seized in combat.

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عَصَبَ

To cling or keep closely to something or a place.

Used of staying by water or remaining in one’s house or tent without leaving it.

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عَصَبَ

To surround, encompass, or assemble around something or someone.

It can describe people gathering around a person for fighting or defense, camels encircling water, or relations encompassing a person.

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عَصَبَ

To become dry through saliva adhering and drying in the mouth.

Said of saliva or the mouth, especially in thirst or fear; the mouth may consequently become foul or coated.

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عَصَبَ

To become very hungry, with the bowels nearly dried by hunger.

The sense is associated with the practice of binding the belly because of hunger.

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عَصَبَ

Of the horizon, to become red.

A specialized description of the horizon’s appearance.

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عَصِبَ / عَصِبٌ

To have much sinew or tendon; of flesh, sinewy.

Describes flesh or meat containing many sinews.

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عَصِبَ

To become firm and compact in flesh.

A description of flesh or bodily make that is tightly knit rather than flabby.

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عَصَّبَ

To bind or wind something around with repeated turns; especially to turban or bandage the head, a broken limb, or a wound.

The derived form emphasizes repeated wrapping or the causative act of making something bound.

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عَصَّبَ

To make someone a chief.

A figurative extension from crowning or binding a turban around the head.

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عَصَّبَ

To cut or wound someone at the place of the turban with a sword.

A specialized idiomatic construction referring to the head.

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عَصَّبَ

To make someone hungry.

Drought or sterile years may be the agent of the hunger.

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عَصَّبَ

Of drought or adverse fortune, to consume a person’s property or livestock and thereby destroy him.

The loss of property leaves the person in the condition of one made hungry.

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مُعَصَّب

A poor or needy person.

A person whose milk-producing livestock or property has become scarce may be called this.

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عَصَّبَ

To make a female count as an ʿaṣabah through her association with a male.

A specialized kinship and legal-social usage describing consociation with the male side.

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تَعَصَّبَ

To bind or wind a turban or bandage around one’s own head or body.

The reflexive derived form describes self-wrapping, including binding the body because of hunger.

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تَعَصَّبَ

To bind one’s body with cloth because of hunger.

The construction refers to the customary hunger-bandage around the belly.

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تَعَصَّبَ

To be made a chief.

A quasi-passive extension of the act of crowning or turbaning a chief.

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تَعَصَّبَ

To show party zeal, support one’s group, or league with others in its defense.

The group may be defended whether it is wronged or wrongful; the sense includes summoning others to join the alliance.

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تَعَصَّبَ

To be or become content with something.

Used with the preposition بِـ.

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اِنْعَصَبَ

To become hard, firm, or strong.

The lexical explanation is brief but presents intensification or hardening as the verb’s sense.

• Lane · entry 3403

اِعْتَصَبَ

To place a turban or crown around one’s own head.

Used with a turban or crown as the encircling object.

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اِعْتَصَبَ

To form or collect oneself into a company or companies.

The verb describes people becoming organized into groups called ʿuṣbah or ʿiṣābah.

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اِعْصَوْصَبَ

To collect together into companies or form one cohesive company.

Used of people or other groups becoming gathered into a collective body.

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اِعْصَوْصَبَ

To exert oneself or strive in traveling or moving at a fast pace.

Used especially of people or camels journeying together.

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اِعْصَوْصَبَ

To become vehement, severe, or concentrated.

Used of a day or of evil that intensifies and becomes severe.

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عَصْب

A Yemeni fabric whose yarn is gathered or bound, dyed, and then woven.

The binding leaves some portions undyed, producing a variegated or striped textile; the term may also denote the garment itself.

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عَصْب

A red cloud or mist seen in the western horizon, especially in a time of drought.

Also applied to clouds resembling a particular smeared or streaked formation.

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عَصْب

A material used for beads, necklaces, or handles.

The material is variously identified as cut animal tendons or, in a Yemeni report, the teeth or bones of a sea animal; the precise referent is uncertain.

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عَصْب

Saliva that has adhered and dried in the mouth.

A noun for the dried substance, also used figuratively in an expression for dying.

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عَصْب

A light, active, sharp-headed boy or young man.

An archaic personal description; it is not the ordinary adjective for physical strength.

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عُصْب

A twining plant that winds around other trees, especially the plant called لَبْلَاب.

The related feminine forms عُصْبَة and عَصْبَة may denote the individual plant.

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عُصْب

A tenacious person, especially one difficult to dislodge in wrestling or grappling.

A figurative comparison to a twining plant that clings tightly.

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عَصَب

Sinews, tendons, or ligaments that connect and bind the joints; by extension, nerves in some usages.

A collective noun for the connective structures of humans and animals; the singular feminine form may denote one such structure.

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عَصَب

The best or outstanding members of a people or party.

A collective or plural-valued figurative use.

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عَصَبَة

A man’s people or paternal-side party who league together for his defense.

This social-kinship sense concerns the group supporting a person and is distinct from the general Quranic noun for a company.

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عَصَبَة

An agnatic heir who receives what remains after the specified inheritance shares, or the heirs collectively entitled in that way.

A technical inheritance term for paternal male relations and, in certain legal cases, a single person or woman; the legal applications vary by case.

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عَصَبِيّ

A partisan: one who supports or defends his people or party and is zealous on its behalf.

The word can include a person who summons others to join the party or league.

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عَصَبِيَّة

Partisanship, party spirit, or zealous attachment to a group and its shared interest.

The term may describe the strong bond holding several people together by a common interest or opinion.

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عِصَاب

A cord used to bind a she-camel’s thigh so that she will yield milk copiously.

A specialized implement associated with the milking practice described under the verb عَصَبَ.

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عَصُوب

A she-camel that will not yield much milk until her thigh or thighs, or sometimes the lower parts of her nostrils, are bound.

The binding is performed before or during milking.

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عَصُوب

A woman with little flesh in the buttocks and thighs, or light hips.

A specialized physical description of a woman’s build.

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عَصِيب

A preparation of animal intestines twisted, folded, and bound together, or lights bound with intestines and roasted.

Used of sheep’s or goats’ intestines and related food preparations.

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عِصَابَة

A band, fillet, bandage, or turban used to bind or wind around the head or another part of the body.

The word may denote a small head covering, a turban, or a bandage for a wound or broken limb.

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عِصَابَة

A crown.

A figurative extension from a head-band or turban that encircles the head.

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عَصَّاب

A seller or spinner of thread or yarn.

A professional designation linked to the binding and handling of thread.

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عَاصِب

Having a mouth dried by the drying of saliva.

Used predicatively of the mouth or as an adjective for a man in that condition.

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مُعَصَّب

Hungry, especially one who has bound his waist or belly because of hunger; hence needy or poor.

The binding may involve cloth and, according to some descriptions, a stone under the bandage; the lexical sense also extends to one whose property has been consumed by drought.

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مُعَصَّب

Turbaned or attired with a turban.

A passive description of someone whose head has been wrapped.

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مُعَصَّب

A chief, or one made a chief.

A figurative passive extension from being crowned or turbaned.

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مُعَصَّب

Crowned, especially a crowned king.

The crown is understood as encircling the head like a turban.

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مَعْصُوب

Twisted, wound around, folded tightly, or bound.

A passive participial description of something subjected to the concrete act of عَصَبَ.

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مَعْصُوب

Firmly and compactly built in flesh.

Describes a bodily make that is tightly knit and not flabby.

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مَعْصُوب

A slender or elegant sword.

A figurative extension of tightness or slender compact form.

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مَعْصُوب

Hungry, with the belly bound; by extension, very hungry.

The expression is associated with binding the belly because of hunger and is also used in a dialectal sense simply for hungry.

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مَعْصُوب

A letter or written message.

A figurative use based on a letter being tied or bound with thread or string.

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يَعْصُوب

A strong or sturdy man.

An archaic personal epithet.

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عِصْبَة

A mode or manner of binding or winding a turban or the like around the head.

A lexical noun for the manner in which the head is bound or wound.

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