اخصب
1.
, (A, Msb, K,) verbal noun إِخْصَابٌ; (TA;) [and some add خِصْبٌ, as another verbal noun; but ISd holds this to be a simple subst.; (see 4 in article ريف;)] and
خَصِبَ, (A, Msb, K,) aorist
خَصَبَ
; (Msb, K;) and
خَصَبَ, aorist
خَصِبَ
, verbal noun خِصْبٌ; (K;) It (a place) abounded, or became abundant, with herbage [or with the produce of the earth], and with the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life; (A, K;) [was, or became, fruitful;] had increase; had plenty, or abundance; (Msb;) [opposite of
أَجْدَبَ and جَدِبَ or جَدَبَ and جَدُبَ:] and اخصبت الأَرْضُ [the land, or earth, abounded, or became abundant, with herbage &c.]. (JK, S.) إِخْصَابٌ and
اِخْتِصَابٌ are both from الخِصْبُ [but the precise meaning of the latter is not explained]. (Lth, JK, TA.) In the saying of the rájiz,
[Verily I feared to see drought, or barrenness, or dearth, in this our year, after it had been abundant in herbage &c.], أَخْصَبَّا is put for أَخْصَبَا: but according to one reading, it is اِخْصَبَّا, of the measure اِفْعَلَّ, though this is generally employed for colours; and the incipient ا is rendered disjunctive of necessity, for the sake of the metre. (L. [Respecting جِدَبَّا, see جَدْبٌ.]) You say also, اخصب جَنَابُ القَوْمِ, meaning The tract surrounding the people [became abundant with herbage &c.]. (S, TA.)لَقَدْ خَشِيتُ أَنْ أَرَى جَدِبَّافِى عَامِنَا ذَا بَعْدَ أَنْ أَخْصَبَّا
2.
اخصبوا
They attained, obtained, had, or became in the condition of having, abundance of herbage [or of the produce of the earth], and of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life. (S, * K.) [They became in the condition of persons whose food and milk, and the pasture of whose land, were abundant. (See the particle n., مُخْصِبٌ, below.)] And اخصبت الشَّاةُ
The ewe, or she-goat, obtained abundance of herbage. (TA.)
3.
اخصب اللّٰهُ المَوْضِعِ
God caused the place to produce herbs and pasture. (Msb.)
4.
اخصبت العِضَاهُ, mentioned as on the authority of Lth, [and in the K,] is, according to Az, a gross mistranscription, for اخصبت [q. v.]. (TA.)