Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

سَغِبَ, aor. ـَ {يَسْغَبُ}; (Ṣ A, Mṣb, Ḳ;) and سَغَبَ, aor. ـُ {يَسْغُبُ}; (A, Ḳ;) inf. n. سَغَبٌ, (Ṣ, A,* Mṣb, Ḳ,) which is of the former, (Sudot;, Mṣb, TA,) and سَغْبٌ, (Ḳ,) which is of the latter, (TA,) and سُغُوبٌ (Ḳ) and سَغَابَةٌ and مَسْغَبَةٌ, (A,* Ḳ,) the last syn. with مَجَاعَةٌ; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) He was, or became, hungry: (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or suffered hunger together with fatigue. (A, Mṣb, Ḳ.) You say, بِهِ سَغَبٌ and مَسْغَبَةٌ and سَغَابَةٌ, [using these ns. as simple substs.,] In him is hunger: or hunger together with fatigue. (A.) And يَتِيمٌ ذُو مَسْغَبَةٍ [An orphan] having hunger. (Ṣ.) And فِى يَوْمٍ ذِى مَسْغَبَةٍ, in the Ḳur [xc. 14], means In a day of hunger. (TA.) [See also سَغْبَةٌ and سَغَبٌ below.]

اسغب He (a man, TA) entered upon a state of hunger. (Ḳ.)

سَغَبٌ an inf. n. of سَغِبَ [q. v.]. (Ṣ, &c.)

It also signifies Thirst: but is unused: (Ḳ:) [or] thirst is sometimes thus termed. (Mṣb.)

سَغْبَةٌ Hunger: or hunger combined with fatigue. (TA.) [See also 1.]

سَاغِبٌ andسَغْبَانُ↓ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) andسَغِبٌ↓ (Ḳ) Hungry: (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ, TA:) or suffering hunger together with fatigue: (A, Mṣb, Ḳ:) or thirsty: (TA:) fem. [of the second]سَغْبَى↓, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) pl. سِغَابٌ. (Ḳ.) You say also, هُوَ سَاغِبٌ لَاغِبٌ (A, TA) andسَغْبَانُ↓ لَغْبَانُ (TA) [He is hungry and fatigued, or fatigued in the utmost degree]. And it is said in a trad.,دَخَلَ خَيْبَرَ وَهُمْ مُسْغِبُونَ↓, expl. as meaning [He entered Kheyber] they being hungry. (TA.)

هُوَ مُسَغَّبٌ لَهُ كَذَا and مَسَعَّبٌ [the latter written in the CK مُسْغَبٌ] To him is allowed, or permitted, such a thing. (Ḳ, TA.)