غَيْب

gayobN * Whatever is absent, or hidden, from one; (S, A, Msb, K, TA;) as though it were an inf. n. used in the sense of the act. part. n. [in which the meaning of a subst. is predominant]; (TA;) and so ↓ gaAy^ibN , which [in this sense] is a subst., like kaAhilN , (K, TA,) or an act. part. n. used in the sense of a subst.: (MF:) anything that is absent, or hidden, from the eyes; invisible, unseen, or unapparent; whether it be, or be not, perceived in the heart, or mind: (IAar, TA:) [or anything unperceivable; absent from the range, or beyond the reach, of perception by sense, or of mental perception; or undiscoverable unless by means of divine revelation; a mystery, or secret, such as an event of futurity; ] a thing that has been hidden from men, and with which the Prophet has acquainted them, of the events of the resurrection and of Paradise and of Hell &c.; thus in the Kur ii. 2; (Zj, TA;) and [hence] Zj explains Algayob as meaning, in the Kur lxxxi. 24, that which has been revealed: (TA in art. Dn :) pl. guyuwbN . (Msb.) [See also the Ksh and Bd in ii. 2.] [Hence, EaAlamu Algayobi The world of the unseen; the invisible world. ] And [hence also] one says, rajama biAlgayobi [and qa*afa biAlgayobi (see art. q*f )] He spoke of that which he did not know: (Ham p. 494:) and qaAla rajomFA biAlgayobi He said conjecturally, [or speaking of that which was hidden from him or unknown by him, ] without evidence, and without proof. (Msb in art. rjm , q. v.) ― -b2- And (assumed tropical:) Doubt, or a doubting: (K:) but some disapprove this: some regard it as tropical: and some pronounce it correct: (MF, TA:) pl. giyaAbN and guyuwbN . (K.) A poet says, A^anota nabiY~N taEolamu AlgiyaAbaA laA qaAy^ilFA A_ifokFA walaA murotaAbaA [ Thou art a prophet, knowing doubts, or things doubted; not saying a lie, nor a thing suspected: or, more probably, the meaning is, the things unseen ]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also A place, in the ground, that hides, or conceals, one: (TA:) a low, or depressed, place in the ground, or in a tract of land: (S, K, TA:) or any place such that one knows not what is in it: and a place such that one knows not what is behind it: (Sh, TA:) pl. guyuwbN . (TA.) Hence the phrase Eano Zahori gayobK in a verse of Lebeed cited voce ZahorN , q. v. (TA.) [Hence also] one says, samiEotu SawotFA mino waraA='i Algayobi i. e. [ I heard a sound, or voice, ] from [ behind ] a place that I saw not. (A, TA.) And tanaAwalahu biZahori Algayobi bimaA yasuww^uhu : see 8. And takal~ama bihi Eano Zahori gayobK (A) or Eano Zahori Algayobi (TA, and A and O in art. Zhr ) [app. He spoke of it by memory; in the absence of a book or the like; as one says in modern Arabic, EalaY AlgaAy^ib . See also ZahorN .] ― -b4- Also The xamoSap [i. e. pit, or depression, as is shown by what here follows, (thus in the A, and in the Ksh in ii. 2, in the TA Huforap , which has a similar meaning,)] that is in the place where the kidney is situate, (Ksh, A, TA,) and which swells up when the beast becomes big in the belly: so says ISh: (Ksh ubi suprà:) or the xamoSap that is next to the kidney: (Bd in ii. 2: [De Sacy doubted respecting its meaning, but conjectured that it might be thus: see his Anthol. Gramm. Arabe p. 55:]) pl. guyuwbN : one says, $aribati Ald~aAb~apu Hat~aY waArato guyuwba kulaAhaA , (ISh, Ksh ubi suprà, A, TA,) meaning huzuwmahaA [i. e. The beast drank until it concealed the pits of its kidneys ]. (A, TA.) ― -b5- And Fat: (K, TA:) i. e. the fat of the varob [q. v.] of a sheep or goat: so called because it is hidden from the eye. (TA.) -A2- See also gaAy^ibN .