ت • ب

, inf. n. تَتْبِيبٌ: see 1, in three places. -A2- , تبّبهُ (inf. n. as above, S,) [He caused him to suffer loss, or to become lost: or] he destroyed him, or killed him. (S, K.) He said to him تَبًّا: (M, K: *) [i. e.] he imprecated loss, or perdition, or death, upon him. (A.)

(tropical:) God weakened, or impaired, or may God weaken, or impair, his strength. (K, TA.)

(tropical:) It (a road) became beaten, or trodden, and rendered even, or easy to walk or ride upon, or easy and direct. (A.) (tropical:) It (an affair) was, or became, rightly disposed or arranged; in a right state: (S, M, A, Msb:) or it followed a regular, or right, course; was in a right state; and clear, or plain: from مُسْتَتِبٌّ applied to a road, explained below: (T, TA:) or it became complete, and in a right state: lit. it demanded loss, or diminution, or destruction; because these sometimes follow completeness: (Har p. 35:) or the ب may be a substitute for م; the meaning being استتمّ. (TA.)

, applied to a road, (tropical:) Furrowed by passengers, so that it is manifest to him who travels along it; and to this is likened an affair that is clear, or plain, and in a right state. (T.) [See the verb, 10.]

(tropical:) An old man; (AZ, T, M, A, K;) fem. with ة: (AZ, T, M, A:) and (assumed tropical:) weak: pl. أَتْبَابٌ: of the dial. of Hudheyl; and extr. [with respect to analogy]. (M.) You say, كُنْتُ شَابًّا فَصِرْتُ تَابًّا [I was a young man, and I have become an old man]. (A.) And أَشَابَّةٌ أَنْتِ أَمْ تَابَّةٌ [Art thou a young woman or an old woman?] (A.) Also, (T, K,) or تَابُّ الظَّهْرِ, (T,) (assumed tropical:) An ass, and a camel, having galls, or sores, on his back: (T, K:) pl. as above. (K.) [See also بَاتٌّ.]

: see 1, in several places.

: see 1, in several places.

: see 1, in several places.

: see 1.

i. q. مَهْلَكَةٌ [A place of perdition, or destruction; or a desert; or a desert such as is termed مَفَازَة]. (K.) -A2- [It is also said in the K to signify What the ribs infold: but I think it probable that this meaning has been assigned to it from its having been found erroneously written for تَبُوتٌ, a dial. var. of تَابُوتٌ.]

A difficult, or distressing, state or condition. (K.)