a verbal noun of شَرِبَ [q. v.]; (S, A, Msb, K, &c.;) like ↓شِرْبٌ: (S, A, K:) or a simple subst. [signifying The act of drinking]; (AO, S Msb, K;) as also ↓شِرْبٌ. (AO, S, K.)
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-A2- In the phrase أَخُوكَ شُرْبٌ it is used as [an epithet,] meaning ذُوشُرْبٍ [which may be regarded as virtually synonym with شَارِبٌ or as similar to this latter but intensive in signification]. (Ham p. 194.)