تَسْبِيخٌ

[verbal noun of سبّخ] The separating, or plucking asunder, and loosening, of cotton, and making it [or spreading it out] wide. (Fr, L.)

And The winding of cotton and the like, (K, TA,) such as wool, and soft hair (وَبَر), after the separating and loosening, for a woman to spin it; (TA;) [as also سَبْخٌ, verbal noun of ↓ سَبَخَ; see سَبِيخٌ.]

[Hence,] (tropical:) The act of lightening, or alleviating. (S, A, K.) It is related in a tradition that the Prophet said to 'Áïsheh, when she had cursed a thief, (S, A, TA,) who had stolen something from her, (S, A, TA,) who had stolen something from her, (S, TA,) لَا تُسَبِّخِى عَنْهُ بِدُعَايءِكِ عَلَيْهِ, (S, A, * TA,) meaning (tropical:) Do not thou alleviate (S, A, TA) the merited punishment of his crime by thy cursing him. (S, * TA.) And a poet says,

فَسَبِّخْ عَلَيْكَ الهَمَّ وَاعْلَمْ بِأَنَّهُ

إِذَا قَدَّرَ الرَّحْمٰنُ شَيْيءًا فَكَايءِنُ

[Then alleviate thou the disquietude of thy mind; and know that, when the Compassionate decreeth a thing, it happeneth]. (S.) One says also, سَبَّخَ اللّٰهُ عَنْكَ الحُمَّى May God alleviate thy fever. (S.) And اَللّٰهُمَّ سَبِّخْ عَنَّا الأَذَى O God, remove from us, or alleviate to us, that which harms, or hurts. (TA.)

And (assumed tropical:) The act of stilling, quieting, rendering motionless, appeasing, tranquillizing, calming, allaying, assuaging, or quelling. (K.)

-A2- Also (assumed tropical:) The becoming [alleviated, or lightened,] still, quiet, motionless, appeased, tranquil, calm, allayed, assuaged, or quelled. (K, * TA.) One says of heat, (S, K,) and of anger, (TA,) سبّخ, (S, K,) verbal noun as above; and ↓ تسبّخ; (K;) (assumed tropical:) It became abated, or allayed, (S, K, TA,) and alleviated. (S.)

Also (assumed tropical:) The ceasing of veins from the throbbing occasioned by pain therein. (IAar, L, K. *)

See also 1, in three places.