See also: شبط

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
س ب ط (s-b-ṭ)

Verb edit

سَبُطَ (sabuṭa) I, non-past يَسْبُطُ‎ (yasbuṭu)

  1. to be lank
  2. to be well-shaped, to be graceful
  3. to be liberal, to be bountiful, to be munificent, to be generous
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

سَبَّطَ (sabbaṭa) II, non-past يُسَبِّطُ‎ (yusabbiṭu)

  1. to miscarry
Conjugation edit

Adjective edit

سَبِط or سَبْط or سَبَط (sabiṭ or sabṭ or sabaṭ)

  1. lank
  2. well-shaped, graceful
  3. liberal, bountiful, munificent, generous
Declension edit

Noun edit

سَبَط (sabaṭm (collective, singulative سَبَطَة f (sabaṭa), plural أَسْبَاط (ʔasbāṭ))

  1. buffelgrasses (Cenchrus gen. et spp.)
  2. Stipagrostis spp.
    Synonyms: ثَغَام (ṯaḡām), نَصِيّ (naṣiyy)
Declension edit

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *šabṭ- (literally staff, rod). Semantically influenced by Hebrew שֵׁבֶט (śeḇeṭ, tribe of Israel; staff, sceptre).

Noun edit

سِبْط (sibṭm (plural أَسْبَاط (ʔasbāṭ))

  1. grandchild from the mother's side
    Coordinate term: حَفِيد (ḥafīd)
  2. grandchild
    Synonym: حَفِيد (ḥafīd)
  3. tribe of the Israelites
  4. Shia imam (grandchild of the prophet)
    1. (definite, especially) al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī or al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī
    • 17th century, اَلْعَلَّامَة اَلْمَجْلِسِيّ, quoting ʿAlī ibn al-Ḥusayn Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, chapter 45, in بِحَار اَلْأَنْوَار[1], page 138:
      أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ أُعْطِينَا سِتًّا وَفُضِّلْنَا بِسَبْعٍ أُعْطِينَا الْعِلْمَ وَالْحِلْمَ وَالسَّمَاحَةَ وَالْفَصَاحَةَ وَالشَّجَاعَةَ وَالْمَحَبَّةَ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَفُضِّلْنَا بِأَنَّ مِنَّا النَّبِيَّ الْمُخْتَارَ مُحَمَّدًا وَمِنَّا الصِّدِيقَ وَمِنَّا الطَّيَارَ وَمِنَّا أَسَدَ اللهِ وَأَسَدَ رَسُولِهِ وَمِنَّا سِبْطَا هٰذِهِ الْأُمَّةِ مَنْ عَرَفَنِي فَقَدْ عَرَفَنِي وَمَنْ لَمْ يَعْرِفْنِي أَنْبَأْتُهُ بِحَسَبِيّ وَنَسَبِيّ
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  5. (rare in Arabic) wand, staff
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References edit

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “سبط”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[2] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 625
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سبط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 278
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “سبط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1294–1295
  • Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, pages 218, 263
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سبط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 547