عزب

عَزَبَ

To be or become distant, absent, concealed, or gone away; to depart.

Used of persons, things, and livestock; of grazing animals, it can mean ranging far from the dwelling and not returning in the evening.

• Lane · entry 3050

عَزَبَ

Of a woman’s period of purity, to be associated with her husband’s absence.

An idiomatic construction describing a woman whose husband is away.

• Lane · entry 3050

عَزَبَ

Of forbearance, to depart or leave a person.

Figurative usage with حِلْمٌ as the subject.

• Lane · entry 3050

عَزَبَ

To be without a wife or husband; to live in celibacy.

A usage marked as figurative in the lexical evidence.

• Lane · entry 3050

عَزَبَ

Of land, to be or become destitute of inhabitants.

The land is described as having no one in it, whether fertile or barren.

• Lane · entry 3050

عَزَّبَ

To take a herd to pasture at a distance from its dwelling.

Used especially of camels kept away from the place of abode.

• Lane · entry 3051

عَزَّبَ

To make a period remote or to delay and be tardy.

Applied to postponing the completion of an undertaking, including the time taken to complete a Quran recitation.

• Lane · entry 3051

عَزَّبَ

To provide a man with a wife who ends his celibacy.

Used of a woman in relation to the unmarried man whom she marries.

• Lane · entry 3051

عَزَّبَ

To manage another person’s affairs and expenses, acting like a treasurer.

A figurative administrative usage.

• Lane · entry 3051

أَعْزَبَ

To make a person or thing distant or to cause it to go far away.

Causative Form IV usage.

• Lane · entry 3052

أَعْزَبَ

To drive livestock to distant pasture, leaving them away overnight; of a camel, to cause it to go astray.

Used particularly of camels kept in pasture without being brought back in the evening.

• Lane · entry 3052

أَعْزَبَ

To cause a person’s forbearance to depart from him.

Figurative causative usage.

• Lane · entry 3052

أَعْزَبَ

To come upon or light upon remote herbage.

The herbage is distant from the people seeking it.

• Lane · entry 3052

تَعَزَّبَ

To spend the night with one’s camels in distant pasture without returning in the evening.

Reflexive Form V usage involving camels kept away from the dwelling.

• Lane · entry 3053

تَعَزَّبَ

To abstain from marriage or remain without a wife.

The corresponding form is also used of a woman remaining without a husband.

• Lane · entry 3053

عَزَبٌ

A man who goes far away into the country, especially with his camels to pasture.

A personal noun for one who ranges far from the dwelling or tribe.

• Lane · entry 3054

عَزَبٌ

Anything alone, solitary, or apart from others.

General substantival usage, not restricted to a particular class of object.

• Lane · entry 3054

عَزَبٌ

A man or woman having no spouse.

The feminine عَزَبَةٌ is also attested; the plural may be أَعْزَابٌ or عُزَّابٌ.

• Lane · entry 3054

عُزْبَةٌ

The state of having no wife or husband; celibacy.

A substantive naming the state rather than the person.

• Lane · entry 3055

عَزِيبٌ

A person who has gone away a considerable distance from family and livestock.

A personal adjective or noun describing extended departure from the household.

• Lane · entry 3056

عَزِيبٌ

A herd of camels, sheep, or goats that has gone far away in pasture.

Also used for livestock that does not return to the tribe in the evening; in this use it can function as a plural-like expression.

• Lane · entry 3056

عَزُوبَةٌ

Land where pasture must be sought at a distance.

The term can imply that the available pasture is sparse.

• Lane · entry 3057

عُزُوبَةٌ

Celibacy or the state of having no spouse.

A variant substantive corresponding to عُزْبَةٌ.

• Lane · entry 3058

عَازِبٌ

Distant or remote; of herbage, remote or not yet grazed.

It may describe distant meadows or untouched pasture and is also used figuratively of remote anxiety or thoughts far removed.

• Lane · entry 3059

عَازِبٌ

Absent or concealed.

A general adjectival usage distinct from the specialized Quranic construction of عَزَبَ.

• Lane · entry 3059

عَازِبٌ

Of sheep, goats, camels, or other livestock, ranging far from their owners in pasture.

The animals do not return at night to the place of lodging or abode.

• Lane · entry 3059

عَوْزَبٌ

An old woman.

The designation is explained by the long period elapsed since her marriage.

• Lane · entry 3060

مُعْزِبٌ

One who goes away from his family with his camels or seeks distant pasture for them.

An active participial noun for the person who keeps livestock at a distance.

• Lane · entry 3062

مِعْزَبَةٌ

A female slave; in another attested usage, a woman without a husband.

The evidence preserves both the general designation and the restricted unmarried-woman usage.

• Lane · entry 3063

مُعَزَّبٌ

A herd of grazing camels taken to pasture at a distance from its dwelling.

Passive participial designation for livestock kept away from the place of abode.

• Lane · entry 3064

مُعَزِّبَةٌ

A man’s wife who receives him and undertakes preparing his food and caring for his household equipment.

A figurative household designation for the wife who maintains the domestic base.

• Lane · entry 3065

مِعْزَابَةٌ

A man who repeatedly takes his cattle or camels far away from the tribe to pasture.

The feminine-looking ending intensifies the description and may convey praise for frequently seeking distant, uncropped pasture.

• Lane · entry 3067

مِعْزَابَةٌ

A man long without a wife, to the point that he has no need of one.

A figurative usage describing prolonged celibacy.

• Lane · entry 3067