عَيْبٌ

, (S, A, O, Msb, K,) a verbal noun used as a simple subst. (Msb,) and ↓ عَابٌ [which is also originally a verbal noun (S, O, Msb, K) and ↓ عَيْبَةٌ (S, O) and ↓ مَعَابٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and ↓ مَعِيبٌ and ↓ مَعَابَةٌ. (S, O. K,) signify the same, (S, O, Msb, K,) i. e. [in a man and in any animal,] A vice. [and in the same, and in anything,] a fault or faultiness, an unsoundness, a defect, an imperfection, a blemish, or something amiss; synonym وَصْمَةٌ, (A, K,) and نَقِيصَةٌ: (TK:) in Pers. اهُو: (PS:) or ↓ مَعَابٌ and ↓ مَعَابَةٌ signify a place of عَيْب [or vice, fault, &c.; apparently as meaning a ground for عَيْب or finding fault, &c.]. ↓ مَا فِيهِ مَعَابٌ and ↓ مَعَابَةٌ meaning [There is not in him, or it,] عَيْبٌ, or مَوْضِعُ عَيْب: [and so ↓ مَعِيبٌ as is shown by what follows; and ↓ مَعْيَبَةٌ as explained in Har p. 475, which last and ↓ مَعَابَةٌ may be explained agreeably with analogy as signifying a cause of عَيْب, i. e. a thing for which one is to be found fault with, blamed, upbraided, or reproached; like مَذَمَّةٌ;] for [although] مَفْعل from triliteral-radical verb such as كَالَ, aorist يَكِيلُ, as the measure of a subst. [or n. of place] is with kesr [to the ع,] and as the measure of a verbal noun with fet-h, yet it is allowable to use fet-h or kesr in either case, for the Arabs say مَسَارٌ and مَسِيرٌ, and مَعَاشٌ and مَعِيشٌ, and ↓ مَعَابٌ and ↓ مَعِيبٌ: (S, O:) the plural of عَيْبٌ is عُيُوبٌ [a plural of mult.] (S, A, O, Msb) and أَعْيَابٌ [a plural of pauc.]; (Th, TA;) and مَعَايِبُ [as plural of ↓ مَعَابٌ or ↓ مَعِيبٌ or ↓ مَعَابَةٌ, or as an anomalous plural of عَيْبٌ like as مَشَايِنُ is of شَيْنٌ,] is synonym with عُيُوبٌ. (S, O.)