أبّن الشَّىْءَ

, (AZ, S,) verbal noun تَأْبِينٌ, (K,) He watched, or observed, the thing; or he expected it, or waited for it. (AZ, S, K.)

أبّن الأَثَرَ, (M,) verbal noun as above, (As, T, S, K,) He followed the traces, or footprints, or footsteps, (As, T, S, M, K,) of a thing; (As, S, K;) as also ↓ تأبّن. (K.) And hence the next signification. (As, T.)

-A2- أبّن الرَّجُلَ, (S, M,) verbal noun as above, (Sh, T, S, K,) He praised the man, or spoke well of him, (Sh, Th, T, S, M, K,) after his death, (Th, S, M, K,) or in death and in life, (Sh, T,) used in poetry to signify praise of the living; (M;) and wept for him: (S:) he praised him; and enumerated, or recounted, his good qualities or actions: you say, لَمْ يَزَلَ يُقَرِّظُ أَحْيَاكُمْ وَيُوءَبِّنُ مَوْتَاكُمْ [He ceased not to eulogize your living and to praise your dead]: (Z, TA:) for he who praises the dead traces his [good] deeds. (As, T.)

See also 1, in six places.