هَرَبَ

, (S, K,) aorist هَرُبَ ; not هَرَبَ , as some have imagined on account of the measure of the first of the following inf. ns., imagining thence also that the pret. is هَرِبَ; nor هَرَبَ with the pret. هَرَبَ, as some have supposed because of the guttural letter; for a guttural letter, when it is the first, is not reckoned as having any influence on the form of the aorist; nor هَرِبَ , as some have thought; (TA;) verbal noun هَرَبٌ (S, K) and مَهْرَبٌ and هَرَبَانٌ; (K;) He (a man, or any animal, TA) fled; ran away. (S, K.)

إِلَيْكَ مِنْكَ المَهْرَبُ [To Thee I flee for refuge from Thee; i. e., from thy punishment: addressed to God]. (TA.)

هَرَبَ مِنَ الوَتَدِ نِصْفُهُ Half of the wooden pin, peg, or stake, disappeared [in the ground]. (K.)

-A2- هَرِبَ, aorist هَرَبَ , He became extremely aged, old and weak, or decrepit; i. q. هَرِمَ; (K;) of which it is a dialect form. (TA.)