عبس

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Arabic

Root
ع ب س (ʕ b s)
3 terms

Verb

عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) I (non-past يَعْبِسُ (yaʕbisu), verbal noun عَبْس (ʕabs) or عُبُوس (ʕubūs))

  1. to frown, scowl, to show a crabbed face

Conjugation

Verb

عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) I (non-past يَعْبِسُ (yaʕbisu), verbal noun عَبَس (ʕabas))

  1. (obsolete) to become dirty or filthy, or have muck or urine dried upon oneself

Conjugation

Noun

عَبَس (ʕabasm (obsolete)

  1. verbal noun of عَبِسَ (ʕabisa) (form I)
  2. dried urine or dung upon the tail, muck, soil
    • a. 800, أبو زيد سعيد بن أوس الأنصاري [ʔabū zayd saʕīd ibn ʔaws al-ʔanṣārīy], كتاب النوادر [Buch der Seltenheiten]:
      Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1888) Kleinere Schriften (in German), volume 3, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, page 484:
      يَا كَرَوَانًا ضُكَّ فَأَكْبَأَنَّا
      فَشَنَّ بِٱلسَلْخِ فَلَمَّا شَنَّا … بَلَّ ٱلذُنَابَى عَبَسًا مُبِنَّا
      yā karawānan ḍukka faʔakbaʔannā
      fašanna bi-s-salḵi falammā šannā … balla ḏ-ḏunābā ʕabasan mubinnā
      You thick-knee! Which when bumped will clew and toss dung and having hurled … moistens the tail with sticky soil!

Declension

Proper noun

عَبَسَ (ʕabasa?

  1. The 80th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Noun

عَبْس (ʕabsm

  1. verbal noun of عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) (form I)
  2. (obsolete) synonym of بُرْنُوف (burnūf)

Declension