د • أ • ب

, (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. دَاَءَ , (T, M, A, K,) inf. n. دَأْبٌ (T, S, M, A, K) and دَأَبٌ (T, M, A, K) and دُوءُوبٌ, (T, S, M, A, K,) He strove, laboured, toiled, or exerted himself; (T, S, A, K;) and wearied himself, or became wearied; (S, A, K;) in his work, (S, A, K,) or in a thing, (T,) and in a journey or journeying; (T, A;) in which last case, دَأَبَتْ is said of a she-camel, (T,) or of a دَابَّة [or horse or the like]: (A:) or he held on, or continued, (M, and Bd in viii. 54,) in his work, and his way. (Bd ibid.) See also 4. Hence, اللَّيْلُ وَالنَّهَارُ يَدْأَبَانِ فِى اعْتِقَابِهِمَا (tropical:) [The night and the day hold on their course in their alternating]. (A.) دَأْبٌ (K) and دُوءُوبٌ (TA) also signify The act of driving vehemently; and i. q. طَرْدٌ [the act of driving away, hunting, &c.]. (K, TA.)

, (T, S, M, &c.,) inf. n. إِدْابٌ, (T,) He made another, (S, A, K,) his hired man, and his beast, (A,) to strive, labour, toil, or exert himself; (S, A, K;) he fatigued, or wearied, (T, S, A, K,) another, (S, K,) his hired man, (A,) and his beast: (T, A:) or he made another, and anything, to hold on, of continue: and ادأبهُ also signifies أَحْوَجَةُ إِلَى الدُّوءُوبِ [he made him to be in need of striving, &c.; or of holding on, or continuing]: (M:) and أَدَبُوا is used by a rájiz, but not necessarily by poetic license, for أَدْأَبُوا. (IAar, M.) [Hence,] ادأب السَّيْرَ [He pursued the journey laboriously, or with energy; or he held on, or continued, the journey]: (S, M, L, K, in art. مسد; and M and L in art. سأد:) and [in like manner] you say, سَيْرَنَا ↓ دَأَبْنَا [for فِى سَيْرِنَا, or perhaps فى is omitted by inadvertence]. (TA in art. نحب.)

(T, S, M, A, K) and ↓ دَأَبٌ (S, M, K) [both originally inf. ns. of 1: and hence,] (tropical:) A custom, manner, habit, or wont: (A'Obeyd, T, S, M, K:) an affair, a business, or a concern: (Zj, T, S, A, K:) and a case, state, or condition: (Zj, * T, * S, * M, A, * K: *) and a deed, or work. (A.) You say, هٰذَا دَأْبُكَ (tropical:) This is [thy custom, &c.:] thy affair, business, or concern: or thy case, state, or condition: and thy deed, or work. (A.) Zj says that كَدَأْبِ الِ فِرْعَوْنَ [in the Kur iii. 9 &c.] means, accord. to the lexicologists, (assumed tropical:) Like the case of the people of Pharaoh: but in his opinion, like the striving, labouring, or toiling, of the people of Pharaoh in their unbelief, and their leaguing together and aiding one another against Moses. (T.)

(TA, and so in a copy of the S,) and ↓ دَيءِبٌ (TA, and so in two copies of the S,) Striving, labouring, toiling, or exerting himself, and wearying himself, in his work [&c.: or holding on, or continuing, therein: see the verb]. (S, TA.) [Hence,] لَيْلَةٌ دَايءِبَةٌ [A hard, fatiguing, or continuous, night-journey]. (M and K in art. مرس.) And الدَّايءِبَانِ (tropical:) The night and the day; (S, A, K;) which [are so called because they] hold on their course (يَدْأَبَانِ) in their alternating. (TA.)

[A man who strives, labours, toils, or exerts himself, and wearies himself, or who holds on, or continues, with energy, to do a thing]. (M.)