ص • ع • ب

, (S, A, MA, Msb, K,) aor. صَعُبَ , (A, K,) inf. n. صُعُوبَةٌ; (S, MA, Msb, K;) and ↓ استصعب; (S, A, MA, Msb, K;) and ↓ اصعب, (IAar, K,) inf. n. إِصْعَابٌ; (IAar, TA;) It (a thing, Msb, or an affair, or event, S, MA, Msb, K) was, or became, صَعْب, (S, A, &c.,) i. e. difficult, hard, hard to be done or accomplished, hard to be borne or endured, or distressing. (A, MA, K.) One says, عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ ↓ استصعب, (S, MA, Msb,) like صَعُبَ, (S, Msb,) The affair, or event, was, or became, difficult, &c., to him. (MA.)

, (K,) inf. n. تَصْعِيبٌ; (TA;) [and] ↓ اصعبهُ, (A,) inf. n. إِصْعَابٌ; (KL;) and ↓ تصعّبهُ; (K;) He made, or rendered, it صَعْب, (A, K,) i. e. difficult, hard, &c. (A, K, KL.)

See صَعُبَ.

Said of a camel, He was, or became, صَعْب [meaning refractory, or untractable]: (K, TA:) [and in like manner one says ↓ استصعب: (see its contr. استصحب:) and ↓ تصعّب, which is also said of a man:] and اصعب said of a camel, he was unridden, (A, TA,) and untouched by a rope. (A.) Also, said of a man, His camel was, or became, refractory, or untractable. (L, TA.) -A2- اصعبهُ: see 2. Also He left him (i. e. a camel) unridden, (S, K, TA,) and untouched by a rope, so that he became refractory, or untractable. (S, K.) [See مُصْعَبٌ]. And He found it (i. e. an affair, or event, S, Msb, or a thing, K) to be صَعْب [i. e. difficult, hard, &c.]; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ استصعبهُ: (Msb, K:) or both signify he saw it, or held it, to be so. (TA.) [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited voce رَيْثٌ.]

, intrans.: see 4. -A2- تصعّبهُ: see 2.

, intrans.: see 1, in two places: and see also 4. -A2- استصعبهُ: see 4.

Land containing stones such as fill the hand, and other stones, which is tilled, or cultivated. (K, TA.)

Difficult, hard, hard to be done or accomplished, hard to be borne or endured, or distressing; (A, MA, K;) contr. of سَهْلٌ; (Mgh, TA;) as also ↓ صُعْبُوبٌ: (T, O, K, TA:) pl. of the former صِعَابٌ; (Msb;) and of ↓ the latter, صَعَابِيبُ. (T, TA.) One says أَمْرٌ صَعْبٌ A difficult, hard, or distressing, affair or event. (A.) And عَقَبَةٌ صَعْبَةٌ (thus in the A, but in the Msb and TA without any syll. signs,) [A mountainroad] difficult, hard, or distressing: (TA:) pl. عِقَابٌ صِعَابٌ (A, Msb *) and صَعْبَاتٌ with sukoon [to the ع because the word is an epithet; for if it were a subst., it would be صَعَبَاتٌ]. (Msb.) [Or عُقْبَةٌ صَعْبَةٌ may perhaps be meant in the TA, i. e. A difficult, hard, or distressing, stage of a journey.] Also Refractory, untractable, incompliant, obstinate, or stubborn; (K, * TA;) contr. of ذَلُولٌ; (S, A, TA;) applied to a camel, (S, A,) or to a beast; (TA;) [and to a man;] fem. صَعْبَةٌ, (S, TA,) which is applied to a woman: (S:) and the pl. of this is صِعَابٌ, [as of the masc.,] (TA,) and صَعْبَاتٌ, applied to women, with sukoon [to the ع because the word is an epithet]. (S, TA.) رَكِبَ النَّاسُ الصَّعْبَةَ وَالذَّلُولَ, occurring in a trad. of I'Ab, [lit. The people rode the refractory and the tractable she-camel,] means (assumed tropical:) the people entered upon difficult and easy affairs; i. e. they cared not for things, nor were cautious respecting what they said and did. (L, TA.) [Hence,] الصَّعْبُ The lion; (O, K;) because of his untractableness. (TA.)

A stallion [of camels]: (S, K:) and a camel, (S, A,) or a stallion [of camels], (ISk, TA,) left unridden, and untouched by a rope, (ISk, S, A, TA,) so as to become refractory, or untractable: (S:) or an unbroken camel, upon whose back nothing is allowed to be put: (L, TA:) pl. مَصَاعِبُ and مَصَاعِيبُ. (ISk, TA.) It is also applied as an epithet to a man, (A, Msb, TA,) meaning مَسَوَّدٌ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) Made a chief or lord &c.]: (TA:) pl. مَصَاعِبُ. (A, Msb.) One says, فُلَانٌ مُصْعَبٌ مِنَ المَصَاعِبِ (tropical:) [Such a man is one of those who have been made chiefs or lords &c.]; like as one says, قَرْمٌ مِنَ القُرُومِ. (A.)

A man whose camel is refractory, or untractable: occurring in a trad. (L, TA.)