سلب

سَلَبَ العَقْلَ / سَلِيبُ العَقْلِ

To deprive someone of reason or understanding; bereft of reason.

A figurative use applied to a person or to the mind.

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اُسْلُبْ

To peel or strip a cane or reed.

Attested as an imperative construction applied to a cane or reed.

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سَلْبٌ

Privation or deprivation in a general technical sense; in grammar and logic, negation.

A technical usage contrasted with affirmation or positive assertion.

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سَلْبٌ

Light, rapid travelling or journeying.

A verbal-noun usage describing movement performed lightly and quickly.

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سَلِبَ / تَسَلَّبَ

To put on black garments and observe mourning for a deceased husband, loved one, or other dead person.

The mourning practice may be for a husband or, in the broader usage, for another beloved or close relation.

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سَالَبَ / تَسَالَبَ

To contend with another, each trying to seize or carry off something by force.

A reciprocal construction describing mutual competition or struggle over an object.

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أَسْلَبَ / سَلِيبٌ / سَلُوبٌ

Of a female animal or woman: bereaved of her young because it died, was lost or taken, or was cast in an imperfect state.

Explicitly applied to a she-camel and she-gazelle, and also extended to a woman; the derived adjectives describe the bereaved female.

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سَلِيبٌ

Of a tree or palm: stripped or bare of its leaves, branches, or fruit.

Includes trees without leaves and palms without fruit; the adjective describes vegetation from which its covering or produce has been removed.

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أَسْلَبَ

Of the panic grass: to put forth its leaves and become ready to be cut.

A specialized usage applied to the plant called الثُّمَامُ.

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سِلْبٌ

The longest part of a plough's apparatus, or a wooden piece joined to the ploughshare.

A technical agricultural term for a structural part of the plough.

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سَلَبٌ

Spoil, plunder, or booty seized from an opponent, including what is upon him or with him.

May include clothing, weapons, and the mount of a defeated person; the plural is أَسْلَابٌ.

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سَلَبٌ

The hide, shanks, and paunch of a slaughtered animal.

A specialized noun for parts of a slaughtered animal, traditionally associated with what is allotted as spoil.

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سَلَبٌ

The peel, rind, or bark of a cane, reed, or certain trees, including fibrous material used for ropes or baskets.

The term can denote the bark itself or the fibrous plant material obtained from it.

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سَلِبٌ

Light, active, agile, or quick in movement.

Applied to a person, bull, or horse, especially with reference to the hands, legs, or movement in thrusting.

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سَلِبٌ

Long or tall.

Applied, among other things, to a spear or a man; this is a distinct adjectival usage from agility or quickness.

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سُلْبَةٌ

The denuded or unclad part of the body; nudity.

A noun describing a state or visible condition of being unclad.

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سَلَبَةٌ

A string or cord tied to a camel's muzzle, distinct from its halter.

A technical term for a particular camel cord.

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سَلَبَةٌ

A sinew bound around an arrow, especially along the reed or cane shaft.

A technical archery term for the sinew fastening on an arrow.

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سِلَابٌ / سُلُبٌ

Black garments or a black cloth worn by a woman in mourning.

The garment may be associated with mourning a husband, child, or another beloved person; the sources record variation in number and lexical analysis.

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سَلُوبٌ

A spear that takes away life.

A specialized epithet for a deadly spear.

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سَلَبُوتٌ / سَلَّابٌ / سَلَّابَةٌ

A man or woman who habitually or repeatedly spoils or plunders people.

Intensive epithets describing repeated or excessive plundering.

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سَلَّابٌ

A seller or maker of ropes or baskets made from سَلَب material.

A professional designation derived from the plant material called سَلَبٌ.

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أُسْلُوبٌ

A row or line of palm trees.

A specialized nominal usage recorded as an early sense of the word.

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أُسْلُوبٌ

A road, way, course, mode, manner, kind, or style.

Used for a physical route and for a manner of acting, conducting oneself, or speaking; the plural is أَسَالِيبُ.

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أُسْلُوبٌ

Figuratively, an elevated or fixed nose expressing pride.

Derived from the expression of looking in one direction without turning right or left.

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أُسْلُوبٌ

The aperture of a watering trough or tank through which water flows.

A technical term for the water outlet of the trough or tank.

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أُسْلُوبٌ

The neck of a lion.

A specialized anatomical usage.

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أُسْلُوبَةٌ

A game or customary performance of the desert Arabs.

May refer either to the game itself or to an action performed within the group.

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اِنْسَلَبَ

To go at a very quick pace or move so swiftly as if emerging from one's skin; to outstrip others.

Especially applied to a horse or camel.

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مُسَلِّبٌ

Unfamiliar, unsociable, ungentle, or not inclined toward anyone.

A figurative characterization of a person likened to a wild animal.

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