Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

قَشْبٌ signifies The act of mixing. (Ṣ, Mgh, O, Ḳ.) You say, قَشَبَ, aor. ـِ {يَقْشِبُ}, inf. n. قَشْبٌ, He mixed. (Ḳ.) And قُشِبَ, said of anything, It was mixed. (M.)

And قَشَبَهُ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He corrupted, or vitiated, it: (Ḳ, TA:) or he mixed it (i. e. anything) with a thing that corrupted, or vitiated, it. (TA.)

[Hence,] قَشَبَ الطَّعَامَ, (Ṣ, M,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) He poisoned the food; (Ṣ;) he mixed the food with poison; as alsoقشّبهُ↓: (M, TA:) or قَشَبَ signifies he mixed poison, and so prepared it that it should take effect upon the body. (IAạr, TA.)

And قَشَبَهُ, (Ṣ, O, Ḳ,) aor. as above, (Ḳ,) and so the inf. n., He gave him poison to drink; (Ṣ, O, Ḳ;) and (TA) soقشّب↓ لَهُ. (M, TA.) And قَشَبَ النَّسْرَ He put poison on fleshmeat for the vulture, that he might eat it and die, and he might take his feathers. (AA, TA.)

And [hence] قَشَبَنِى رِيحُهُ; (Ḳ, TA;) and (TA)قَشَّبَنِى↓ ريحه, inf. n. تَقْشِيبٌ; (Ṣ, TA;) His, or its, odour annoyed me: (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA:) as though meaning it poisoned me. (Ṣ, TA.) قَشَبَهُ andقشّبهُ↓ both signify He, or it, annoyed him. (Mgh.) And قَشَبَهُ الدُّخَانُ means The smoke annoyed him by its odour; and oppressed, or overpowered, him. (O.) قَشْبٌ [in a case of this kind], (O, Ḳ,) as inf. n. of قَشَبَ, aor. ـِ {يَقْشِبُ}, (Ḳ,) means The affecting [a person] with what is displeasing, or hateful, and with what is deemed unclean, or filthy: (O, Ḳ: [in the former القَشْبُ is expl. by the words الاصابةُ بما يُكْرَهُ ويُسْتَقْذَرُ; which, as well as what here follows, shows that an assertion in the TḲ (copied from the TA, and adopted by Freytag) respecting the explanation in the Ḳ, is erroneous:]) and hence the saying of ʼOmar, when he perceived the odour of perfume from Mo'áwiyeh when the latter was a pilgrim, مَنْ قَشَبَنَا [i. e. Who has affected us with what is displeasing, &c.?]; likening the odour of perfume in this case to a stink. (O.)

قَشْبٌ also signifies The depriving [one] of reason; (Ḳ, TA;) from the same word as signifying the act of “corrupting,” or “vitiating:” (TA:) and its verb is قَشَبَ, aor. ـِ {يَقْشِبُ}. (Ḳ, TA.) ʼOmar said to one of his sons, قَشَبَكَ المَالُ (M, O, TA) i. e. Wealth has deprived thee of thy reason: (M:) or has corrupted, or vitiated, thee, and deprived thee of thy reason. (O, TA.)

And قَشَبَهُ, (Ṣ, M, O, Ḳ,) aor. as above, (Ḳ,) and so the inf. n., (M, Ḳ,) † He spoke evil of him: (Ṣ, O:) ‡ he aspersed him, or upbraided him, (M, Ḳ, TA,) بِشَىْءٍ with a thing; (Ḳ, TA;) and soقشّبهُ↓, inf. n. تَقْشِيبٌ: (accord. to some copies of the Ḳ, and said in the TA to be agreeable with usage:) and ‡ he reproached him with disgraceful conduct. (M, Ḳ, TA.) You say, قَشَبَهُ بِقَبِيحٍ ‡ He charged, or upbraided, him with something bad, evil, abominable, or foul. (Ṣ, O, TA.) And قَشَبَهُ بِشَرٍّ † He cast upon him an evil imputation that was a mark whereby he should, or would, be known. (M, TA.) And قَشَبَهُ بِعَيْبِ نَفْسِهِ † He imputed to him, or charged him with, his own vice, or fault. (IAạr, TA.) And قَشَبَنَا † He reproached, or upbraided, us with, or accused us of, a thing that was not in us: (O:) [or] he commanded us to forbear from a thing that was not in us. (TA.) And قَشَبَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, † He forged, or fabricated, a lie, or falsehood. (Ḳ, TA.)

قَشَبَ اِلسَّيْفَ, (O, Ḳ,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (Ḳ,) He polished the sword; (O, Ḳ;) removed its قِشْب [i. e. rust]. (O.)

And قَشَبَ, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) aor. and inf. n. as above; (M, Ḳ;) or قَشِبَ, with kesr; (O, as on the authority of Fr;) He (a man, Ṣ, M, O) gained, or acquired, praise or blame; (Fr, Ṣ, M, O, Ḳ;) as alsoاقتشب↓. (Ṣ, M, Ḳ.)

قَشُبَ, (Th, M, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَقْشُبُ}, inf. n. قَشَاَبةٌ, (Ḳ,) It (a garment, Th, M, TA) was new and clean: (Th, M, TA:) or it was white and clean. (Ḳ, TA.)

And قَشُبَ, (thus written in my copy of the TA,) or قَشِبَ, (thus in a copy of the M,) It (a thing) was, or became, unclean, dirty, or filthy. (M, TA.)

قشّب: see the preceding paragraph {1}, in five places.

Also, He rendered a thing unclean, dirty, or filthy. (M, TA.)

مَا أَقْشَبَ بَيْتَهُمْ How unclean, dirty, or filthy, is their tent or house! (O,) or, what surrounds their tent or house, by reason of the human excrement, or ordure! (TA.)

استقشبهُ He deemed it (i. e. a thing) unclean, dirty, or filthy. (M, TA.)

قَشْبٌ inf. n. of قَشَبَ [q. v.]

[The explanations of this word by Golius and Freytag, by the former as an epithet applied in two contr. senses to a sword, and by the latter as a subst. (from a misstatement in the TḲ mentioned above), are erroneous.]

قِشْبٌ Poison; (Ṣ, M, Mgh, O, Ḳ;) because consisting of things mixed together; (Mgh;) as alsoقَشَبٌ↓: (M, Ḳ:) pl. of the former أَقْشَابٌ. (Ṣ, M.)

And [hence, app.,] A certain plant, (M, O, Ḳ,) resembling the مَقِر, (M, [which is generally said to mean the aloe, and by AḤn to be a certain plant consisting of leaves without branches, agreeably with what follows, in the O and Ḳ resembling the مَفْد,]) from the middle whereof there rises a stalk, which, when it grows tall, bends down its top by reason of its succulence, or suppleness; having upon its head a fruit (ثَمَرَةٌ, M, O, [in the TA عقدة,]) with which birds of prey are killed, (M, O,) being poisoned therewith by its being put into flesh and thrown where they alight: he who prepares it stops up his nose; if he do not, it injures him; and people fear to pasture their cattle near to the places of its growth lest the animals should come in contact with it and should break it or bruise it and it should exhale its odour upon them and kill them: thus says AḤn, on the authority of some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, of the Saráh (السَّرَاة). (O.)

And Anything unclean, dirty, or filthy; as alsoقَشَبٌ↓: (M, TA:) or anything that is deemed unclean, dirty, or filthy. (Mgh.)

Rust (Ḳ, TA) upon iron: (TA:) or dirt upon a sword. (A, TA.)

The refuse, that is thrown away, as being of no good, of طَعَام [i. e. wheat, or other food]. (M, TA.)

See also [the pl.] أَقْشَابٌ, voce قَاشِبٌ.

Also, i. e. قِشْبٌ A man in whom is no good; (Ḳ, TA;) and (TA) so قِشْبٌ خِشْبٌ; (Ṣ, M, O, TA;) or this means with whom is no good: the latter word is an imitative sequent. (TA in art. خشب.) [See also قِشْبَةٌ.]

And Dry, or tough, and hard. (M, TA. [Like قَسْبٌ.])

And القِشْبُ signifies The نَفْس [here meaning جَسَد, i. e. body, as is shown below, voce قَاشِبٌ]. (O, Ḳ.)

قِشْبَةٌ A low, vile, ignoble, or mean, man, (IDrd, M, O, Ḳ, TA,) possessing no good: (TA:) of the dial. of El-Yemen. (IDrd, M, O, TA.) [See also قِشْبٌ, last quarter.]

And The young one of the ape, or of the monkey: (M, O, Ḳ:) so, IDrd says, some assert; (O;) but he doubted its correctness; (M, O, TA;) and the right word is قِشَّةٌ. (M, TA.)

قَشِيبٌ Food mixed with poison: (M, TA:) and anything poisoned; as alsoمُقَشَّبٌ↓. (Nh, TA.) [Hence,] نَسْرٌ قَشِيبٌ A vulture for which poison is mixed in flesh-meat, which he eats, and which kills him; and then his feathers are taken: (Ṣ, O:) a vulture killed by means of غَلْثَى [q. v.]. (M, TA.)

And White, (O, Ḳ,) and clean. (Ḳ.)

And, (Ṣ, M, O, Ḳ,) as alsoقَشِبٌ↓, (M,) New: (Ṣ, M, O, Ḳ:)

and Old, and worn-out: (M, O, Ḳ:) thus having two contr. meanings: (O, Ḳ:) the former used alike as masc. and fem.; applied to a garment; and its pl. is قُشُبٌ [and by contraction قُشْبٌ, mentioned by Golius on the authority of Meyd]. (M.)

And the former, applied to a sword, (Ṣ, O, Ḳ,) Polished: (Ḳ:) or recently polished: (Ṣ, O:)

and, (O, Ḳ,) so applied, (A, O, Ḳ,) Rusty: (O, Ḳ:) or dirty: (A:) thus, again, having two contr. meanings. (O, Ḳ)

قُشْبَانِيَّتَانِ (occurring in a trad., O) Two old and worn-out [garments of the kind called] burdehs (بُرْدَتَانِ): (O, Ḳ, TA:) or, as some say, new: (Nh, TA:) the assertion that قُشْبَانٌ is a pl. of قَشِيبٌ, and that قُشْبَانِيَّةٌ is a rel. n. from this pl., is one upon which no reliance is to be placed, (O, Ḳ,) for a rel. n. is not formed from a pl. [unless from a pl. of the class of أَنْصَارٌ]: it is an innovated form of rel. n. (O.)

قَاشِبٌ [act. part. n. of قَشَبَ; Mixing:, &c.].

One who imputes to others, or charges them with, vices, or faults, that are in himself. (IAạr, TA.)

And A tailor (O, Ḳ) who ejects his أَقْشَاب↓, i. e. the knots of the threads, [meaning who spits them out,] when he ejects them. (O.)

And [A man] weak in respect of the body (ضَعِيفُ النَّفْسِ); (Ḳ, TA;) i. e. (TA) one whose قِشْب [meaning body] is weak, or emaciated; (O, TA;) by his فِشْب being meant his نَفْس [as syn. with جَسَد]. (O.)

مُقَشَّبٌ Poison with which medicaments [or drugs] are mixed to render it potent. (Ḥam p. 331.) See also قَشِيبٌ, first sentence.

And, (M, Ḳ,) or مُقَشَّبُ الحَسَبِ, (Ṣ,) ‡ A man whose grounds of pretension to respect are mixed (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,* TA) with ignobleness. (M, TA.)