عَابَ
1.
, (S, A, O, Msb, K,) aorist يَعِيبُ, (Msb,) verbal noun عَيْبٌ, (Msb, TA,) and مَعَابٌ and مَعِيبٌ are allowable as inf. ns., (S, O, TA,) It (a thing, A, TA, or an article of merchandise, S, O, Msb) was, or became, faulty, unsound, or defective; or had a fault, an unsoundness, a defect, an imperfection, a blemish, or something amiss. (S, A, O, Msb, * K.) [See also 5.]
2.
عَابَهُ, (S, O, Msb, K,) [aorist as above,] verbal noun عَيْبٌ and عَابٌ; (TA;) and
عيّبهُ, (S, A, O,) or this has an intensive signification; (Msb;) and
تعيّبهُ; (S, A, O;) He made, or caused, it (a thing, TA in relation to the first, and A in relation to the second and third, or an article of merchandise, S and O in relation to the first,) to be faulty, unsound, or defective; or to have a fault, an unsoundness, a defect, an imperfection, a blemish, or something amiss. (S, A, O, Msb, * K.) أَرَدْتُ أَنْ أُعِيبَهَا, in the Qur'an, 18:78, means I desired to render it faulty, or unsound. (AHeyth, TA.)
3.
[The same verbs are also often used in relation to a human being as the object.]
4.
And one says عَابَهُ, [aorist as above,] verbal noun عَيْبٌ and عَابٌ and مَعَابٌ and مَعِيبٌ; (MA;) and
عيّبهُ; (S, A, O, Msb;) and
تعيّبهُ; (TA;) meaning He [found fault with him, or it; blamed, upbraided, or reproached, him; or] attributed or imputed to him, or it, or charged him with, or accused him of, a vice, fault, &c. (S, A, MA, * O, Msb, TA.) [The first of these verbs is of very frequent occurrence as meaning thus: one example of it occurs in the saying of a poet cited in the S and O in this article,
I am the man whom ye have charged with a vice, or fault, &c. And one says, عاب عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ, meaning He blamed, or discommended, to him his deed.أَنَا الرَّجُلُ الَّذِى قَدْ عِبْتُمُوهُ