كَرْب

1 karaba * , aor. karuba , inf. n. kuruwbN , It was, or became, near; drew near; approached. (S, K.) [Compare qaruba .] ― -b2- [You say] karaba A^ano yakuwna , and karaba yakuwnu , He, or it, was near, or nigh, to being ― -b3- . (TA.) This is one of the verbs to which one does not give as its enunciative the act. part. n. of the verb which is its proper enunciative: [so that] you do not say, karaba kaAy^inFA : [in which karaba implies the pron. huwa , which is called its noun; and kAy^nA is put for yakuwnu , or A^ano yakuwna , its proper enunciative]. (Sb.) karaba A^ano yafoEala ka*aA He was near, or nigh, to doing so; he well nigh, or almost, did so. (S, K.) ― -b4- karabati Al$~amosu The sun was, or became, near to setting. (S, K.) ― -b5- krbt AljaAriyapu An tudorika The girl was near to coming of age. (TA.) ― -b6- karabato HayaApu Aln~aAri The fire was near to becoming extinguished. (S, K.) -A2- karaba He bound near together the two pasterns of an ass or of a camel with a rope or with shackles. (TA.) ― -b2- karaba Alqayoda He straitened, or made narrow, the shackle, or shackles, (S, K, TA,) upon the [ animal ] shackled. (S, K.) 'Abd-Allah Ibn- 'Anameh Ed-Dabbee says, A^azojuro HimaAraka laA yarotaEo birawoDatinaA A_i*FA yurad~a waqayodu AlEayori makoruwbu [ Check thine ass: let him not pasture at large in our meadow: in that case he will be sent back with the ass's shackles straitened ]: (S:) meaning Do not venture to revile us; for we are able to shackle this ass, and to prevent his acting as he pleaseth. (L.) See Ham, p. 290. ― -b3- karaba , aor. karuba , He loaded a she-camel. (S, K.) -A3- karabahu , (aor. karuba , inf. n. karobN , TA,) It (sorrow, grief, &c., S, K, or an affair, Msb, TA) afflicted, distressed, or oppressed, him, (S, Msb, K,) so that it filled his heart with rage. (Msb.) See also 8. -A4- karaba Ald~alowa , aor. karuba , (inf. n. karobN , TA,) and ↓ kr~bhA , (K,) and ↓ AkrbhA , (S, K,) He put or attached, a karab to the bucket. (S, K.) ― -b2- kariba , aor. karaba , The rope called karab of his bucket broke. (K.) karaba , aor. karuba ; and ↓ kr~b ; explained by the words TaqoTaqa Alkariyba lixa$abapi Alxab~aAzi [app. meaning, He caused the kryb (a baker's wooden implement) to make a sound, or a reiterated sound, such as is termed TaqoTaqap ]. (K.) -A5- karaba ; (accord. to the K;) or ↓ kr~b , inf. n. takoriybN ; (accord. to IM;) He sowed land such as is called kariybN . (K.) ― -b2- karaba AlA^aroDa , aor. karuba , inf. n. karobN and kiraAbN , He turned over the ground for sowing, (K,) or for cultivating. (S, Msb.) -A6- karaba , aor. karuba , He took the karab (or lower parts, or ends, of the branches ) from the palm-trees. (IAar, K.) He lopped a palmtree. (Msb.) -A7- karaba , aor. karuba ; and ↓ kr~b ; He ate the dates called kuraAbap . (K.) -A8- karaba , aor. karuba , inf. n. karobN , He twisted [a rope &c.] ( qutala : accord. to some copies of the K) or he slew ( qatala : accord to other copies of the same).

karobN * [an inf. n. of 1, q. v.] ― -b2- [You say] h`*ahi A_ibilN miAy^apN A^awo karobuhaA (this is the right reading; and some say that ↓ kurobuhaA is correct: TA: [the latter is the reading in the CK:]) There are a hundred camels, or about that number; or nearly so. (K.) krb is syn. with qurobN . (L.) -A2- karobN (S, O, K) and ↓ kurobapN (S, O, Msb, K) Grief [or distress, that affects the breath or respiration, [lit.] that takes away the breath: (S, O, and so accord. to some copies of the K, [agreeably with present usage, see bahorN , last sentence:]) or the soul: (so [erroneously] accord. to some copies of the K) or anxiety, solicitude, or disquietude of the mind: (Msb:) [or grief, or anxiety, that presses heavily upon the heart: ] or both signify anxiety, grief, or intense grief: (MA:) pl. of the former kuruwbN , (K,) and of the latter kurabN . (Msb.)

karabN * The rope that is tied to the bucket after the maniyn , which is the first [or main ] rope, so that it ( the krb ) remains if the mnyn break: or the rope that is tied to the middle of the cross-bars of the bucket, ( and is then doubled, and then trebled, S,) so as to be that which is next the water, in order that the great rope may not rot: (S, K:) but in a marginal note in a copy of the S, it is said that this latter explanation properly applies to the darak ; not to the krb : (IM:) pl. A^akoraAbN . (TA.) -A2- karabN [coll. gen. n.] The lower parts, or ends, of palm-branches, (S, K,) which are thick and broad, (K,) like shoulderblades: (S:) or the stumps of the branches, or what remain upon the palm-tree, of the lower parts, or ends, of the branches, after the lopping, like steps: n. un. with p . (TA.) Hence the proverb, mataY kaAna Hukomu All~`hi fiY karabi Aln~axoli [ When was the wisdom of God in the stumps, or lower ends, of palm-branches? ] (S.) Said by Jereer, in reply to Es-Salatán El-'Abdee, who had pronounced El-Ferezdak superior to Jereer in point of lineage, and Jereer superior to ElFerezdak as a poet. IB denies it to be a proverb; but IM contends against him that it is, [The meaning is, When was God's wisdom in husbandmen, and possessors of palm-trees? for the region of Es-Salatán's tribe abounded in palm-trees. The words are applied to a man who provokes another to a contest for excellence, being unworthy of the contest. See Freytag, Arab. Prov., ii. 628.]