قَبُحَ
1.
, (S, Msb, K, &c.,) aorist
قَبُحَ
, (Msb, K,) verbal noun
قُبْحٌ, (Msb, K,) [or this, according to the S, seems to be a simple subst.,] and قَبْحٌ (K) and قَبَاحَةٌ (S, K) and قُبُوحَةٌ and قُبُوحٌ and قُبَاحٌ, (K,) He, or it, (a form, and an action, L, and anything, T,) was, or became, bad, evil, abominable, foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous; opposite of
حَسُنَ. (S, Msb, K, TA, &c.) One says of a man, قَبُحَ وَشَقُحَ [apparently using the latter v. as an imitative sequent]: and جَاءَ بِالقَبَاحَةِ وَالشَّقَاحَةِ [He did, or said, what was bad or evil &c.]. (K in article شقح.) And
اُقْبُحْ إِنْ كُنْتَ قَابِحًا
Be thou bad or evil &c., if thou be desirous of becoming so: and قَوْقَ مَا قَبُحَ
مَا هُوَ بِقَابِحٍ
He is not becoming bad &c., or will not become bad &c., above the degree in which he has become so: and in like manner one says in similar cases. (Lh, L.)
2.
لَا تَقْبَحُوا الوَجْهَ, occurring in a tradition, means Say not ye that the face is
قَبِيح [i. e. unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous]; because God formed it: or the meaning is, say not ye
قَبَحَ اللّٰهُ وَجْهَ فُلَانٍ [explained in what follows]. (L.)
3.
And قَبَحَهُ اللّٰهُ, (S, A, Msb, K, TA, &c., [in the CK قَبَّحَهُ,]) aorist
قَبَحَ
, (Msb,) verbal noun قَبْحٌ and قُبُوحٌ, (AZ, L, TA,) God removed him, or may God remove him, (S, A, Msb, K, &c.,) far, (A, TA,) from good, or prosperity, (S, Msb, K,) or from all that is good; (L, TA;) [or from success, or the attainment of that which he deserves or seeks; (see the pass. particle n.;)] like as one does the dog and the pig: (AZ, L, TA:) [or God drove him away, or may God drive him away, like a dog: or God rendered him, or may God render him, foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous, in form: (see, again, the pass. particle n.:)] and اللّٰهُ
قَبَّحَهُ has a similar, but intensive, signification. (Msb.) One says, قَبْحًا لَهُ [an elliptical expression, a verb and its agent being understood, i. e., with these supplied, (May God decree) removal far from good, &c., to him; or (cause) removal &c. (to cleave) to him; meaning may removal &c. betide him]; (S;) and
قُبْحًا (S, A) also, (S,) with damm; (A;) [i. e. foulness,
unseemliness, unsightliness, ugliness, or hideousness;] and لَهُ وَشُقْحًا
قُبْحًا; (L, K, TA;) and قَبْحًا لَهُ
وَشَقْحًا; in which شقحا is [said to be] an imitative sequent. (L, TA: but see article شقح.)
4.
قَبَحْتُ
لَهُ وَجْهَهُ, [thus,] without teshdeed, means I said to him,
قَبَحَ اللّٰهُ وَجْهَكَ [i. e. May God remove thee far from good, &c., for وَجْهَكَ is here put for نَفْسَكَ, the phrase being] from القَبْحُ signifying “ the removing far [from good, &c.]. ” (AA, L. [See an example in a verse cited in article سبح, conj. 2.])
5.
And قَبَحَ (IAar, L, K, TA, [according to the CK قبّح, and so in one of two copies of the A, but the former is the right, as is shown by the form of the aorist in an example in the TA,]) He broke a purulent pustule (in his face, L,) in order that the matter might come forth: (L, K, TA:) or he squeezed a purulent pustule to express its contents before it was ripe: (A, TA:) and [in like manner] he broke an egg, (K,) or anything. (L.)