ا • ه • ب

, [inf. n. تَأْهِيبٌ,] He furnished, prepared, equipped, or accoutred, him, for the thing, or affair; he furnished him, or provided him, with the apparatus, gear, tackling, implements, instruments, tools, or the like, proper, or necessary, for it. (MF.) أهّب الأَمْرَ He prepared the thing, or affair. (MF.) See also 5.

He furnished, prepared, equipped, or accoutred, himself; furnished, or provided, himself with proper, or necessary, apparatus, gear, tackling, implements, instruments, tools, or the like; (S, A, Msb, K;) لِلسَّفَرِ for journeying; (Msb;) or لِلْأَمْرِ for the thing, or affair; as also ↓ أهّب. (K.)

Apparatus, equipments, equipage, accoutrements, furniture, gear, tackling, implements, instruments, tools, or the like; (S, A, Msb, K;) as in أُهْبَةُ الحَرْبِ [the apparatus, arms, weapons, equipage, or accoutrements, of war]; (S;) as also هُبَةٌ: (K:) pl. of the former, أُهَبٌ. (S, Msb.) You say, أَخَذَ لِذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ أُهْبَتهُ [He took his apparatus, &c., for that thing, or affair; also meaning, he made his preparation, or he prepared himself, for it]. (TA.)

A skin, or hide, (A, Msb, K,) in an absolute sense, (A,) of a bull or cow, sheep or goat, or wild animal: (TA:) or a skin, or hide, not yet tanned: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) and sometimes applied to the skin of a man: (Msb:) pl. (of pauc., TA) آهِبَةٌ (IAar, K) and (of mult., TA) أُهُبٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, Msb, K,) with two dammehs, (Mgh, Msb,) and ↓ أهَبٌ, (S, Msb, K,) contr. to rule, (S, Msb,) or, accord. to Sb, (L,) this last is a quasi-pl. n.: (Mgh, L:) in one copy of the K, it is written آهُب. (TA.) You say, جَاعُوا حَتَّى أَكَلُوا الأُهُبَ [They hungered so that they ate the skins, or hides]. (A.) And كَادَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ إِهَابِهِ فِى عَدْوِهِ (assumed tropical:) [He almost issued from his skin in his running]. (A.) And حَقَنَ الدِّمَآءَ فِى أُهُبِهَا (assumed tropical:) [He spared the people's blood in their bodies]. (TA, from a trad.)