و • ث • ب

, aor. يَثِبُ, inf. n. وَثْبٌ and وُثُوبٌ (the latter agreeable with analogy, TA,) and وَثَبَانٌ and وَثِيبٌ (S, K) and وِثاَبٌ (K; but this is generally affirmed to be an inf. n. of وَاثَبَ, TA;) and ثِبَةٌ, (Ibn-Málik and others) He leaped; jumped; sprang; bounded: (S, K:) or he leaped down, or downwards. (Mgh, Msb, art. طفر.) وَثَبَ المَوْضِعَ [He leaped, or jumped, upon, or over the place]. (TA.) وَثَبَ إِلَى الشَّرَفِ وَثْبَةً (tropical:) [He made a single leap to eminence, or nobility]. (TA.) وَثَبَ إِلَيْهِ [app., He leaped, or sprang up, or he hastened, to him]. (TA.) الوُثُوبُ, except in the dial. of Himyer, signifies The act of rising, or standing up. (TA.) It is also much used by the vulgar as signifying The act of hastening to a thing; as observed by MF, who is wrong in saying that there is nothing in the lexicons that favours its being so used. (TA.) -A2- وَثَبَ, [aor. يَثِبُ,] inf. n. وَثْبٌ, in the dial. of Himyer signifies He sat; sat down. (K, TA, from a trad.) ثِبْ in that dial. signifies Sit; sit down. (S.) It is related that Zeyd Ibn-Abd-Allah Ibn-Dárim came as an envoy to one of the kings of Himyer, and found him at a hunting-place belonging to him, on a high mountain, and he saluted him, and mentioned to him his lineage, or relationship; whereupon the king said to him ثِبْ, meaning إِجْلِسْ, Sit; but the man thought that he commanded him to leap from the mountain; and he said, “ Thou shalt find me, O king, very obedient: ” then he leaped from the mountain, and perished. So the king said, “ What ailed him? ” And they explained to him his case, and his mistake respecting the word: upon which he said لَيْسَتْ عِنْدَنَا عَرَبِيَّتْ مَنْ دَخَلَ ظَفَارِ حَمَّرَ i. e., [“ Arabic is not current with us: ” (for, probably, in the time of this king, the term عَرَبِيَّة was only applied to the general language of Arabia:) “ whoso entereth Dhafári,] let him learn [or, rather, speak, as MF says,] the Himyeree language. ” (Mz., 16th نوع.) [The principal facts of this anecdote are also mentioned in the S, on the authority of As.] By the king's saying عَرَبِيَّتْ was meant العَرَبِيَّةُ: the ة is pronounced ت in the case of a pause (which is the case here) in their dialect. (S.) Or, accord. to another relation of the above anecdote, the king said لَيْسَ عِنْدَنَا عَرَبِيَّتْ كَعَرَبِيَّتْكُمْ [“ Arabic like your Arabic is not current with us: ”] and this, says ISd, is the right reading in my opinion: for the king did not mean to exclude himself from the Arabs. (MF.)

, inf. n. تَوْثِيبٌ, He seated him upon a cushion: (S, K:) asserted to be of the dial. of Himyer. (MF.) وثّبه وِسَادَةً, (S, K,) in some copies of the K وَثَبَهُ, (TA,) He threw to him a cushion (S, L, K) that he might sit upon it: (S:) [app. in the dial. of Himyer]. وَثَّبْتُهُ وِثَابًا I spread for him a bed, or the like. (TA.)

He leaped, or sprang, upon him, or at him; he assaulted or assailed him; syn. سَاوَرَهُ (S, K) and ثَاوَرَهُ. (K, art. ثور) and صَاوَلَهُ. (K, art. صول.) [Also, perhaps, He contended with him in leaping, jumping, springing, or bounding.] [واثبه is also mentioned in the TA as having a signification not explained in the K: app., He contended with him in hastening to a thing.]

He made him to leap, jump, spring, or bound. (S, Msb.) اوثبه المَوْضِعَ [He made him to leap, or jump, upon, or over, the place]. (TA.)

(tropical:) Such a one took possession unjustly of an estate belonging to me; he seized upon it unjustly. (S, K.) توثّب فِى أَرْضِهِ عَلَى أَخِيهِ (tropical:) He took possession of his land with injustice towards his brother. (A.) توثّب عَلَى مَنْزِلَتِهِ (tropical:) He took possession unjustly of the place occupied by him. (A.)

They leap, or rush, together upon such a thing [in an evil, or injurious, or a contentious manner]. (S, art. كلب.) التَّوَاثُبُ is syn. with التَّكَالُبُ. (S, K, art. كلب.)

The original text has ت, not ث. An antelope that leaps, jumps, springs, or bounds, quickly. فَرَسٌ وَثَّابَةٌ A mare that leaps, &c., quickly. (TA.) ↓ وَثَبَى i. q. وَثَّابَةٌ; (K;) i. e., That leaps, &c., quickly. (TA.)

A king who sits still, and does not undertake military expeditions: (S, K:) asserted to be of the dial. of Himyer. (MF.)

A plain, or level, land, or tract of land. (K.) A leaper, or jumper. (IAar, K.) Also, [contr.,] A sitter: (IAar., K:) [app. in the dial. of Himyer]. What is elevated, of land. (K.) A rivulet, stream, or streamlet: syn. جَدْوَلٌ. (K.)

An assembly; a company; a troop; a congregated body. (K.) [But it seems rather to belong to the root ثبى, as remarked by Freytag; or, accord. to some, to art. ثوب. See arts. ثبى and ثوب.]

: see وَثَّاتٌ.

A single leap, jump, spring, a bound: (TA:) or a leap down, or downwards. (Mgh, Msb, art. طفر.)

A throne, or couch; syn. سَرِيرٌ; (K;) accord. to some, that is always occupied by the king; or that the king does not cease to occupy: (TA:) [app. of the dial. of Himyer]. A bed; or what is spread to lie or recline upon: (K:) ex. وَتَّبْتُهُ وِثَابًا I spread for him a bed, or the like: (TA:) or places where persons sit; syn. مَقَاعِدُ: (S, K:) in which case it is a pl., as some have expressly affirmed it to be: (TA:) accord. to IF and others, of the dial. of Himyer. (MF.) Applied to heaven (السَّمَاءُ) as being the sittingplaces of the angels. (S.)