تَابِعٌ

Following; a follower: (TA:) and ↓ تَبَعٌ also signifies the same as تَابِعٌ; (K;) a thing that follows in the track of a thing; (Lth, Az;) or that is at the kinder, or latter, part of anything; (TA;) but is used alike as singular and plural: (S, Msb, K:) the plural of تَابِعٌ is تُبَّعٌ and تُبَّاعٌ (TA) [and, applied to rational beings, تَابِعُونَ]: and the plural of ↓ تَبَعٌ is أَتْبَاعٌ; (S, K;) or this may be used as a plural of تَبَعٌ; (Msb;) or it is plural of تَابِعٌ, like as خَدَمٌ is plural of خَادِمٌ, (Kr, Mgh,) and طَلَبٌ of طَالِبٌ, &c.; (K;) or, correctly speaking, it is a quasi-plural n. (Sb, TA.) You say, ↓ المُصَلِّى تَبَعٌ لاِمَامِهِ [The person praying is a follower of his Imám]: and النَّاسُ تَبَعٌ لَهُ [The people are followers of him]. (Msb.) And it is said in the Qur'an, 14:24, and xl. 50], ↓ إِنَّا كُنَّا لَكُمْ تَبَعًا [Verily we were followers of you]: (S, TA:) in which the last word may be a quasi-plural n. of تَابِعٌ; or it may be a verbal noun, meaning ذَوِى تَبَعٍ. (TA.) ↓ تَبَعٌ is applied as an epithet to the legs of a beast: (Lth, T:) and is also used as [an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant,] signifying The legs of a beast. (K.)

A jinnee, or genie, that accompanies a woman and follows her whithersoever she goes, (K, TA,) loving her: (TA:) and تَابِعَةٌ a jinneeyeh, or female genie, that does the same to a man: (S, * K, TA:) or the ة is added in the latter to give intensiveness to the signification, or to denote evilness of nature, or to convey the meaning of دَاهِيَةٌ, q. v.: the plural is تَوَابِعُ: and this means female associates. (TA.)

A servant; as also ↓ تَبِيعٌ. (TA.) أَوِ التَّابِعِينَ غَيْرِ أُولِى الإِرْبَةِ, in the Qur'an, 24:31, according to Th, means Or the servants of the husband, such as the old man who is perishing by reason of age, and the aged woman. (TA.)

See also تَبِيعٌ.

[Also One next in the order of time after the صَحَابَة; like ↓ تَابِعِىٌّ.

And in grammar, An appositive.]

تَابِعُ النَّجْمِ [The follower of the asterism; i. e., of the Pleiades;] a name of الدَّبَرَان [the Hyades; or the five chief stars thereof; or the brightest star among them, a of Taurus]: this name being given to it as ominous of good; (K;) or as ominous of evil: (O:) or so called because it follows the Pleiades: (T:) also called التَّابِعُ, (T in article دبر, Sh, IB, and others,) and ↓ تُوَيْبِعٌ, (K,) which is the diminutive, (TA,) or التُّوَيْبِعُ, (T in article دبر,) and ↓ تُبَّعٌ, (K,) or التُّبَّعُ [q. v.], (Aboo-Sa'eed Ed-Dareer, T,) and ↓ التَّبَعُ, (IB, Z,) and التَّالِى, and الحَادِى, (IB,) or حادى النُّجُومِ , (S in article جدح ,) or حادى النَّجْمِ . (Kzw and others.) [See also المِجْدَحُ.] تَابِعِىٌّ: see تَابِعٌ.