رَبَكَهُ
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And رَبَكَ رَبِيكَةً, (K, TA,) [and رَبَكَ alone,] aorist and verbal noun as above, (TA,) He made
ربيكة [q. v.]. (K.) غَرْثَانُ فَارْبُكُوا لَهُ [He is hungry, therefore make ye
ربيكة
for him], (S, K,) or, as IDrd relates it, فِابْكُلُوا لَهُ [i. e., “ therefore mix ye بَكَالَة (a certain food) for him ”], (TA,) is a prov.; (S, K;) the origin of which was this: (S:) a certain Arab of the desert, (S, K,) said in the O to be Ibn-Lisán-el-Hommarah, (TA,) came to his family, or wife, (S, K,) from a journey, (TA,) and was congratulated with the annunciation that a boy was born to him: whereupon he said, “ What shall I do with him? Shall I eat him or shall I drink him? ” so his wife said, غَرْثَانُ
فَارْبُكُوا لَهُ: and when he was satiated, he said, “ How are the infant and his mother? ” (S, K:) the saying means, “ he is hungry, therefore prepare ye for him food, that his hunger may be allayed, and then congratulate him with the annunciation of the birth of the child: ” and IDrd says that it is applied to the case of him whose anxiety has departed and who has become unoccupied so that he may attend to other things. (TA.)
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رَبِكَ: see 8.