ربع

رَبَعَ

To take a fourth part of someone's property or spoil.

A transitive Form I use; the reported pre-Islamic spoil-share was later reduced to a fifth.

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رَبَعَ / أَرْبَعَ

To become the fourth, add oneself to three, or make a group four or forty.

The Form I and Form IV uses describe either joining a group or causing its numerical increase.

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رَبَعَ / مَرْبُوع

To twist or make something of four strands or twists.

Applied especially to a rope, bowstring, or bridle.

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رَبَعَ / أَرْبَعَ

To follow a fourth-day cycle of watering; to bring camels to water on the fourth day.

The day of the preceding watering may be counted as the first; the same cycle is applied to visits and related activities.

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رَبَعَتْ عَلَيْهِ الحُمَّى / مُرْبَع

To have, or be seized by, a quartan fever.

The fever returns on the fourth day after an intervening two-day interval.

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رَبَعَ

To come fourth in a race.

Said of a horse.

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رُبِعَ

To be struck or injured in the regions of the head.

A passive Form I expression.

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رَبَعَ

Of rain, to water land and cause it to produce herbage.

The related passive expression describes land or camels receiving the seasonal rain.

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رَبَعَ الفَرَسُ

Of a horse, to sweat in its legs.

A figurative extension from rain watering the earth.

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رَبَعَهُ اللهُ / مَرْبُوع

To restore someone from poverty, difficulty, embarrassment, or destruction to competence or well-being.

A figurative or passive participial use.

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رَبَعَ الرَّبِيعُ

For the season called ربيع to commence.

A seasonal Form I expression.

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رَبَعَ بِالمَكَانِ / أَرْبَعَ

To remain, settle, or dwell in a place; to alight and stay where pasture is abundant.

Originally associated with residence during ربيع, then extended to residence generally.

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رَبَعَتِ الإِبِلُ

For camels to feed freely in pasture, eating and drinking as they please.

A specialized intransitive use distinct from the fourth-day watering cycle.

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رَبَعَ فِي المَاءِ

To act according to one's own judgment concerning water.

A specialized idiomatic use.

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رَبَعَ

To have or obtain abundant herbage produced by the spring season or its rain.

Said of a person or place benefiting from seasonal growth.

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رَبَعَ / اِرْبَعْ

To pause, proceed deliberately, restrain oneself, refrain, or deal gently and compassionately.

Occurs in idioms such as اِرْبَعْ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ and رَبَعَ عَلَيْهِ; some applications are explicitly figurative.

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رَبَعَ الفَصِيلُ

For a young camel to widen its stride and run.

A specialized animal-behavior use.

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رَبَعَ الحَجَرَ / رَبِيعَة

To raise or carry a stone for a trial of strength; the stone so raised is called رَبِيعَة.

The action may be performed by one person or jointly by competing persons.

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رَبَعَ الحِمْلَ / مُرْبَعَة

To raise a load onto a camel or other beast, using a lifting staff or the help of another person.

The instrument مِرْبَعَة is a staff used beneath the load.

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رَبِعَ بِعَيْشِهِ

To approve of, be satisfied with, or be content with one's life.

A stative Form I use.

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رَبَّعَ / مُرَبَّع

To make something fourfold, four-sided, square, quadrilateral, or shaped like a quadruped.

The derived adjective may describe four portions, sides, faces, angles, or legs.

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رَبَّعَتْ / رِبْع

To bring forth a fourth offspring; a fourth young one.

The nominal use رِبْع denotes the fourth offspring.

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رَبَّعَ

To remain four nights with someone, especially with one's wife.

The same derived verb can be extended to other actions or statements performed four times or over four units.

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تَرْبِيع

Watering seed-produce on the fourth day in the established watering cycle.

It follows the cycle called تثليث.

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مُرَابَعَة

Hiring or bargaining for work by the season called ربيع.

A Form III seasonal contract expression.

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تَرَبَّعَ / مُتَرَبِّع

To sit cross-legged.

The posture is contrasted with kneeling and crouching.

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تَرَبَّعَ / مُرْتَبِع

To find or remain among spring herbage; of an animal, to feed on it and become fat and lively.

Applied especially to camels and horses, and by extension to their place of pasture.

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تَرَبَّعَتِ النَّخِيلُ

For palm trees to have their fruit cut off.

The expression is associated with the season called ربيع in its regional usage.

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تَرَبَّعَتِ النَّاقَةُ سَنَامًا

For a she-camel to carry or develop a tall hump.

A specialized derived-form use.

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تَرَابَعُوا

To vie with one another in lifting a stone for a trial of strength.

A reciprocal Form VI use.

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ارْتَبَعَ

For a camel to beat the ground with all its legs and go quickly.

A Form VIII animal-motion use.

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رَبْعٌ / ارْتَبَعَ / مَرْبُوع

Of middling stature, neither tall nor short.

Applied to people and, in related usage, to a spear or compactly built horse.

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ارْتَبَعَ أَمْرَ القَوْمِ

To look for, expect, or await being made commander or lord over a people.

A specialized Form VIII idiom.

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اسْتَرْبَعَ / مُسْتَرْبِع

To have the power, ability, strength, or endurance to do or bear something.

Applied to tasks, warfare, travel, envy, and independent execution of work.

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اسْتَرْبَعَ

For sand to become heaped up, or for dust to rise or rise high.

A specialized Form X intransitive use.

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رَبْعٌ

A place of alighting, dwelling, or settled residence; a home or house.

Originally a place of residence in the spring season, later used for a dwelling generally; its plural forms include رِبَاع and رُبُوع.

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رَبْعٌ

The people of a dwelling or settlement; a company, tribe, or large number of people.

A figurative extension from the dwelling itself.

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رَبْعٌ

A bier, or a bier bearing a corpse.

An assumed figurative extension from a place where people alight or rest.

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رَبْعٌ

The extremity of a mountain.

An assumed figurative extension associated with a place where travelers stop.

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رُبْعٌ

A fourth part or quarter; in technical usage, a quarter-share or quarter measure.

The contracted form رُبْعٌ is reported alongside رُبُعٌ; specialized measures vary by regional convention.

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أَرْبَاعُ الرَّأْسِ

The four regions or sections of the head.

A plural anatomical expression.

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رِبْعٌ

The interval or watering schedule in which camels return to water on the fourth day.

The exact counting convention is reported with variant descriptions.

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رُبَعٌ

A young camel born in the season called ربيع.

The term is connected with the young animal's widening stride and running.

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الرُّبَع

A small star in the midst of the stars called العَوَائِذ in the head of Draco.

A specialized astronomical designation.

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رَبْعَة

A small round leather-covered basket or a four-sided vessel used for perfumes.

The form is explained by its four compartments, layers, or legs.

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رَبْعَةُ المُصْحَفِ

A chest or container in which Quran volumes are kept.

Marked as a post-classical usage associated with Baghdad.

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رِبْعَة / رِبَاعَة

A person's former or proper state, condition, affair, course, or manner of conduct.

The expression may also mean remaining occupied with one's established business or remaining in one's dwelling.

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رِبَاعَة / رَابِع

Leadership, headship, or responsibility for a people; a chief who traditionally took the fourth share of spoil.

The leadership sense is metaphorically connected with the chief's أخذ المرباع.

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رَبَعَة

A camel's quick or forceful pace or running.

Authorities differ over whether the pace is especially vehement or a less vehement kind of running.

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رِبْعِيّ / رِبْعِيَّة

Relating to the season ربيع, its rain, herbage, or early breeding; born in that season or at the beginning of a period.

The term can describe early offspring, seasonal provision, an expedition, or the beginning or prime of something.

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رَبَاعٍ / أَرْبَعَ

Having shed the tooth called رَبَاعِيَة; at the corresponding age of a sheep, bovine, solid-hoofed animal, or camel.

The age differs by animal; the Form IV verb describes the shedding itself.

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رَبَاعِيَّة

Vehement and youthful war.

An assumed figurative use connected with youth and vigor.

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رَبُوع

A she-camel that yields four measures of milk.

A specialized animal-noun use.

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رَبِيع

The season called spring or ربيع; its rain; or the green herbage produced by that rain.

Arab usage applies ربيع variously to seasons, months, autumnal or winter rains, spring herbage, and the two months named ربيع الأول and ربيع الآخر.

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رَبِيع

A rivulet, streamlet, or small river, especially one watering cultivated land or palms.

A figurative extension from flowing seasonal water.

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رَبِيع

A share or portion of water used for irrigating land.

The duration-based specification of a quarter-day or quarter-night is reported as unsupported by some authorities.

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رِبْعِيُّ الطِّعَانِ

The sharpest kind of thrusting or piercing.

An assumed figurative expression.

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رَبِيعَة

A stone raised for a trial of strength.

The noun is restricted in the cited evidence to a stone.

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رَبِيعَة

An iron helmet.

A specialized nominal use.

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رَبِيعَة

A meadow or garden.

Synonymous with رَوْضَة in the cited evidence.

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رَبِيعَة

A leathern water-bag.

A specialized container noun.

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رُبَاعِيّ

A boy four spans in height; by extension, a camel of the corresponding measure.

A measurement adjective.

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رُبَاعِيّ

Composed of four letters.

A grammatical or descriptive technical use, applied to a word whose radicals or radicals and augmentations total four.

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رَبَاعِيَة

A tooth between the central incisor and the canine; the four corresponding teeth in humans or other animals.

The plural is رَبَاعِيَات.

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رَبَّاع

One who frequently buys or sells houses or dwellings.

Derived from رِبَاع in the sense of houses or places of abode.

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أَرْبَع

The quickest among a group to conceive or become pregnant.

A specialized comparative-like epithet.

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ذَوَاتُ الأَرْبَع

Quadrupeds, literally beings possessing four.

A plural nominal expression.

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أَرْبَعَة

In an idiom, tears flowing from the four sides of the eyes, or vehement weeping.

An illustrative figurative expression, not a restriction on the ordinary numeral.

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الأَرْبِعَاء

Wednesday, the fourth day of the week.

The word has several reported vocalizations and gender analyses.

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أَرْبَعُون

Fortieth.

The ordinal use is distinct from the cardinal number forty.

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أَرْبِعَاوِيّ

One who fasts alone on Wednesday.

A specialized derivative from the weekday name.

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مُرْبَع

A camel watered on the fourth-day cycle or brought to water at any time.

The latter application is an additional specialized use of the same adjective.

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مُرْبِع / مِرْبَاع

Rain that comes in the season ربيع, confines people to their dwellings, or causes spring herbage to grow.

Applied also to land that produces herbage in that season and to a she-camel bearing young then.

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مُرْبِع / مِرْبَاع

A she-camel that gives birth in the season ربيع, usually gives birth then, or becomes pregnant early.

The related adjective may also describe a camel whose womb is closed and does not admit seminal fluid.

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مُرْبِع

The sail of a fully laden ship.

Contrasted with the sail of an empty ship.

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أَرْضٌ مَرْبَعَة

Land containing jerboas.

The adjective is formed like other place nouns denoting the presence of an animal.

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مَرْبُوع

A rope, bowstring, or bridle twisted from four strands.

The same form can describe a spear of four cubits or something neither long nor short.

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رَبِيعَة

A receptacle for perfume and similar goods.

A specialized container sense distinct from the water-bag and helmet senses.

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مُرَبَّع

Having square or quadrilateral features; figuratively, having very hairy eyebrows or a square forehead.

The square-forehead expression is further used as a designation for a slave in the cited idiom.

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مُرَبَّعُ الجَبْهَة

A person described by a square forehead; in the cited figurative expression, a slave.

A specialized assumed-tropical use.

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يَرْبُوع

The jerboa, a small long-eared and long-tailed animal whose hind legs exceed its forelegs in length.

The name is also explained by the four entrances of its burrow; the plural is يَرَابِيع.

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يَرَابِيعُ المَتْن

The portions of flesh and sinew beside the backbone.

A figurative extension from the jerboa; some authorities report a variant vocalization and no singular.

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الجَارُ اليَرْبُوعِيّ

A neighbor variable in his actions and expedients, like a jerboa.

An idiomatic comparison.

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