Arabic edit

Root
ع ب س (ʕ-b-s)

Verb edit

عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) I, non-past يَعْبِسُ‎ (yaʕbisu)

  1. to frown, scowl, to show a crabbed face

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) I, non-past يَعْبِسُ‎ (yaʕbisu)

  1. (obsolete) to become dirty or filthy, or have muck or urine dried upon oneself

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

عَبَس (ʕabasm (obsolete)

  1. verbal noun of عَبِسَ (ʕabisa) (form I)
  2. dried urine or dung upon the tail, muck, soil
    • a. 800, أبو زيد سعيد بن أوس الأنصاري [ʔabū zayd saʕīd ibn ʔaws al-ʔanṣārīy], كتاب النوادر [Buch der Seltenheiten]:
      Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht (1888) Kleinere Schriften[1] (in German), volume 3, Leipzig: S. Hirzel, page 484:
      يَا كَرَوَانًا ضُكَّ فَأَكْبَأَنَّا
      فَشَنَّ بِٱلسَلْخِ فَلَمَّا شَنَّا … بَلَّ ٱلذُنَابَى عَبَسًا مُبِنَّا
      yā karawānan ḍukka faʔakbaʔannā
      fašanna bi-s-salḵi falammā šannā … balla ḏ-ḏunābā ʕabasan mubinnā
      You thick-knee! Which when bumped will clew and toss dung and having hurled … moistens the tail with sticky soil!

Declension edit

Proper noun edit

عَبَسَ (ʕabasa?

  1. The 80th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Noun edit

عَبْس (ʕabsm

  1. verbal noun of عَبَسَ (ʕabasa) (form I)
  2. (obsolete) synonym of بُرْنُوف (burnūf)

Declension edit