ق • ر • ض • ب

: see قِرْضَابٌ; the second in two places.

He cut it; (S, K;) and so قَرْصَبَهُ; (K in art. قرصب;) but the former is the more approved: (TA in that art.:) and [the inf. n.] قَرْضَبَةٌ signifies the cutting vehemently. (TA in the present art.) [See also قِرْضَابٌ, below; first sentence.] And He separated it; or separated it into several, or many parts; or dispersed it; i. e., a thing. (K.) And He collected it together; namely, flesh-meat in a cooking-pot: thus it has two contr. significations. (K.) And He ate it entirely; namely, flesh-meat: (K:) and in like manner, قَرْضَبَ الشَّاةَ, said of the wolf, he ate entirely the sheep, or goat. (TA.) And [the inf. n.] قَرْضَبَةٌ is said to signify The [eating indiscriminately,] not clearing, or freeing, the moist, or tender, from the dry, or tough, by reason of vehement voracity. (TA.) And قرضب said of a man, He ate a dry, or tough, thing. (S, O, K.) And He (a man) ran in the manner termed عَدْوٌ: (K:) or قَرْضَبَةٌ signifies [a running] such as falls short of what is termed عَدْوٌ. (O.)

A sharp sword; as also ↓ قُرْضُوبٌ: (O:) or both signify a very sharp sword; (K;) as also ↓ قُرَاضِبٌ: (TA in art. قرطب:) or the first signifies, (S,) or signifies also, (O,) a sharp sword, that cuts bones. (S, O.) Both the first and second of these words are compounded from قَرَضَ and قَضَبَ, which signify “ he cut. ” (O.) And One who eats much: (TA:) or, as also ↓ قُرْضُوبٌ and ↓ قِرْضَابَةٌ and ↓ قُرَاضِبٌ and ↓ مُقَرْضِبٌ, one who leaves nothing uneaten by him. (K, TA.) And A man who eats what is dry, or tough. (Th, S, O, K.) And القِرْضَابُ signifies The lion. (O, K.) And قِرْضَابٌ and ↓ قُرْضُوبٌ signify A thief, or robber: pl. قَرَاضِبَةٌ. (S, O, K.) And both words, (the latter, S, O, K, and the former also, K, TA,) sometimes, (S,) A poor man; (S, O, K, TA;) a pauper: (TA:) pl. as above. (K, TA.) مَا رَزَأْتُهُ قِرْضَابًا means I did not get, or obtain, or take, from him, or it, anything. (O, K.)

: see قِرْضَابٌ; the second in two places.

The refuse remaining in the sieve, that is thrown away. (O, K, TA.)

: see قِرْضَابٌ; the second in two places.

: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places.