إِرْبٌ

Cunning, intelligence with craft and forecast, or simply intelligence, excellence of judgment, sagacity, (T, S, M, L, K,) and knowledge in affairs; (M, L;) as also ↓ إِرْبَةٌ and ↓ أُرْبَةٌ (M, K) and ↓ أَرَبٌ, (M, A,) or ↓ أَرْبٌ. (L.) You say, هُوَ ذُو إِرْبٍ [He is a possessor of cunning, or intelligence, &c.]. (S.)

Intelligence and religion. (Th, M, K.)

Deceit, guile, artifice, or fraud; synonym مَكْرٌ: so in the L and other lexicons: in the K, نُكْرٌ [i. e. “cunning,” &c., as above]: (TA:) and so ↓ إِرْبَةٌ; synonym حِيلَةٌ. (K.)

Wickedness, mischievousness, or malignity; hidden rancour, malevolence, or malice. (K, TA.) [In a tradition it occurs in this sense written, in the TA, ↓ أَرْب.]

-A2- See also أَرَبٌ, in four places.

-A3- Also A member; a distinct and complete part of an animal body; a limb; (T, S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) or such as is made complete, or entire, not wanting anything: (M:) plural ارَابٌ (S, M, Mgh, Msb) and أَرْابٌ; (S, Mgh;) the latter formed by transposition. (Mgh.) You say, قَطَّعْتُهُ إِرْبًا إِرْبًا I cut him up, member by member, or limb by limb. (TA.) And السُّجُودُ عَلَى سَبْعَةِ ارَابٍ or أَرْابٍ Prostration [in prayer] is [performed] on seven members; (S, Mgh;) namely, the. forehead, the hands, the knees, and the feet. (TA.)

Also The membrum genitale; the pudendum; synonym فَرْجٌ: (M, K:) but some say that this signification is not known: [see أَرَبٌ:] in some copies of the K, the explanation is written فَرَحٌ, with the unpointed ح. (TA.)

ارَابٌ [the plural] also signifies Pieces of flesh, or of flesh-meat. (M.)