كَرَبَ

, aorist كَرُبَ , verbal noun كُرُوبٌ, It was, or became, near; drew near; approached. (S, K.) [Compare قَرُبَ.]

[You say] كَرَبَ أَنْ يَكُونَ, and كَرَبَ يَكُونُ, He, or it, was near, or nigh, to being

. (TA.) This is one of the verbs to which one does not give as its enunciative the act. particle n. of the verb which is its proper enunciative: [so that] you do not say, كَرَبَ كَايءِنًا: [in which كَرَبَ implies the pron. هُوَ, which is called its noun; and كايءنا is put for يَكُونُ, or أَنْ يَكُونَ, its proper enunciative]. (Sb.) كَرَبَ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ كَذَا He was near, or nigh, to doing so; he well nigh, or almost, did so. (S, K.)

كَرَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ The sun was, or became, near to setting. (S, K.)

كربت الجَارِيَةُ ان تُدْرِكَ The girl was near to coming of age. (TA.)

كَرَبَتْ حَيَاةُ النَّارِ The fire was near to becoming extinguished. (S, K.)

-A2- كَرَبَ He bound near together the two pasterns of an ass or of a camel with a rope or with shackles. (TA.)

كَرَبَ القَيْدَ He straitened, or made narrow, the shackle, or shackles, (S, K, TA,) upon the [animal] shackled. (S, K.) 'Abd-Allah Ibn- 'Anameh Ed-Dabbee says,

أَزْجُرْ حِمَارَكَ لَا يَرْتَعْ بِرَوْضَتِنَا

إِذًا يُرَدَّ وَقَيْدُ العَيْرِ مَكْرُوبُ

[Check thine ass: let him not pasture at large in our meadow: in that case he will be sent back with the ass's shackles straitened]: (S:) meaning Do not venture to revile us; for we are able to shackle this ass, and to prevent his acting as he pleaseth. (L.) See Ham, p. 290.

كَرَبَ, aorist كَرُبَ , He loaded a she-camel. (S, K.)

-A3- كَرَبَهُ, (aorist كَرُبَ , verbal noun كَرْبٌ, TA,) It (sorrow, grief, &c., S, K, or an affair, Msb, TA) afflicted, distressed, or oppressed, him, (S, Msb, K,) so that it filled his heart with rage. (Msb.) See also 8.

-A4- كَرَبَ الدَّلْوَ, aorist كَرُبَ , (verbal noun كَرْبٌ, TA,) and ↓ كرّبها, (K,) and ↓ اكربها, (S, K,) He put or attached, a كَرَب to the bucket. (S, K.)

كَرِبَ, aorist كَرَبَ , The rope called كَرَب of his bucket broke. (K.) كَرَبَ, aorist كَرُبَ ; and ↓ كرّب; explained by the words طَقْطَقَ الكَرِيبَ لِخَشَبَةِ الخَبَّازِ [apparently meaning, He caused the كريب (a baker's wooden implement) to make a sound, or a reiterated sound, such as is termed طَقْطَقَة]. (K.)

-A5- كَرَبَ; (according to the K;) or ↓ كرّب, verbal noun تَكْرِيبٌ; (according to IM;) He sowed land such as is called كَرِيبٌ. (K.)

كَرَبَ الأَرْضَ, aorist كَرُبَ , verbal noun كَرْبٌ and كِرَابٌ, He turned over the ground for sowing, (K,) or for cultivating. (S, Msb.)

-A6- كَرَبَ, aorist كَرُبَ , He took the كَرَب (or lower parts, or ends, of the branches) from the palm-trees. (IAar, K.) He lopped a palmtree. (Msb.)

-A7- كَرَبَ, aorist كَرُبَ ; and ↓ كرّب; He ate the dates called كُرَابَة. (K.)

-A8- كَرَبَ, aorist كَرُبَ , verbal noun كَرْبٌ, He twisted [a rope &c.] (قُتَلَ: according to some copies of the K) or he slew (قَتَلَ: accord to other copies of the same).