coming, returning

, aor. يَوأُوبُ, (T, S, &c.,) inf. n. أَوْبٌ (S, M, Msb, K) and إِيَابٌ and أَوْبَةٌ (T, S, M, K) and أَيْبَةٌ, (M, K,) ى taking the place of و, (M,) and إِيبَةٌ (Lh, M, K) and مَآبٌ [like مَآلٌ], (Msb, TA,) He (an absent person, T) returned (T, S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K) to his place, (Sh,) or to a thing, (M,) or from his journey; (Msb;) as also ↓ أوّب, (M,) inf. n. تَأْوِيبٌ and تَأْيِيبٌ; (K;) and ↓ تأوّب; (M, K;) and ↓ ايأتاب [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَابَ]; (S;) and ↓ أَيَّبَ, [a quasi-quadriliteralradical verb, originally أَيْوَبَ,] of the measure فَيْعَلَ, (M,) inf. n. إيَّابٌ, (M, K,) originally إيوَابٌ, of the measure فِيعَالٌ, (M, TA,) or, accord. to Fr, إِيَّابٌ is incorrect, and the right word is إِيَابٌ: (TA:) [and if so, أَيَّبَ is perhaps changed from أَوَّبَ, like as أَيْبَةٌ is from أَوْبَةٌ; and تَأْيِيبٌ is perhaps its inf. n., changed from تَأْوِيبٌ:] or, as some say, إِيَابٌ signifies only the returning to one's family at night: (M, TA:) and أَهْلَهُ ↓ تأوّب and اهله ↓ ايأتاب [as well as آبَ إِلَى أَهْلِهِ] signify he returned to his family at, or in, the night: (T, TA:) or آبَ إِلَيْهِمْ, (S,) [or آبَهُمْ, accord. to a copy of the A, where we find أُبْتُ بَنِي فُلَانٍ,] aor. as above; (TA;) and ↓ تَأَوَّبَهُمْ (S, A, K) and ↓, تَأَيَّبَهُمْ, (K,) ى taking the place of و, (TA,) inf. n. مُتَأَوَّبٌ and مُتَأَيَّبٌ, (M, * [in which the two forms of the verb are also given, but with the sing. pronoun of the third pers. instead of the pl.,] and K,) each in the form of a pass. part. n.; (TA;) he came to them at night: (S, M, * A, K:) and آبَ المَآءَ, (M,) inf. n. أَوْبٌ, (K,) signifies he came to the water, to drink, at night; as also ↓ ايأتابهُ; (M, K;) and ↓ تأوّبهُ: (M:) or, accord. to AZ, تَأَوَّبتُ signifies I came in the beginning of the night. (S.) You say also, آبَتِ الشَّمْسُ, (T, S, &c.,) aor. تَوأُوبُ, (M,) inf. n. مَآبٌ, (T,) or إِيَابٌ [in the CK اَياب] and أُيُوبٌ, (M, K,) The sun returned from its place of rising, and set: (Msb:) or the sun set; (T, S, M, A, K;) as though it returned to the place whence it commenced its course; (M;) [or] it is a dial. var. of غَابَت. (S.) And آبَ إِلَيْهِ People came to him from every direction, or quarter. (TA, from a trad.) The poet Sáideh Ibn-El-'Ajlán uses the expression, لَآبَكَ مُرْهَفٌ, meaning A thin sword would have come to thee; in which the verb may be trans. by itself, or the prep. إِلَى may be understood. (M, TA.) ― -b2- He returned from disobedience to obedience; he repented. (TA.) And آبَ إِلَى ٱللّٰهِ He returned unto God from his sin, or offence, and repented. (Msb.) ― -b3- آبَ بِهِ إِلَيْهِ He made him to return to him, or it; as also إلَيْهِ ↓ اوّبهُ. (M.) And آبَ يَدَهُ إِلَى سَيْفِهِ, (as in a copy of the T,) or بِيَدِهِ, (as in a copy of the A, [which is probably here the more correct],) He put back his hand to his sword to draw it: (Lth, T, A:) and الى قَوْسِهِ [to his bow] to draw it: and الى سَهْمِهِ [to his arrow] to shoot it. (A.) ― -b4- See also 2.

: see 1, first sentence: ― -b2- and the same again, near the end. ― -b3- He repeated, or echoed, the praises of God: thus in the saying [in the Kur xxxiv. 10], يَا جِبَالُ أَوِّبِى مَعَهُ 0 mountains, repeat ye, or echo ye, the praises of God with him; [i. e., with David;] (S, * M, TA;) but some read معه ↓ اُوبِى, meaning return ye with him in praising as often as he returneth therein: (M, TA:) or, accord. to the former reading, the meaning is, 0 mountains, labour ye with him in praising God all the day, until the night: (T:) for ― -b4- أوّب, (T, A,) inf. n. تَأْوِيبٌ, (T, A, K) also signifies It (a company of men) journeyed by day: (Aboo-Málik, T:) or all the day, (T, A, K,) to the night, (T,) without alighting to rest: (TA:) تأويب being the same kind of day-journeying as إِسْآدٌ is of night-journeying: (T, M:) or he journeyed all the day, and alighted at night: (T, S:) or he journeyed by night: (Msb:) or تأويب (M, L, K) and ↓ مُوأَاوَبَةٌ (Lth, T, L, K) signify the vying, one with another, of travellingcamels, in pace, or going. (Lth, T, M, L, K.) A poet says, " ↓ تَجِدْهُ مِيأْوَبَا ↓ وَإِنْ تُوأَاوِبْهُ " [And if thou, or they, (meaning camels,) vie with him in pace, or going, thou wilt, or they will, find him to be one that overcomes therein]: so as related by Lth: but as related by others, تُوأَوِّبْهُ. (T.)

, inf. n. مُوأَاوَبَةٌ: see 2, in two places.

: see 1, in five places.

: see 1, in three places.

, originally أَيْوَبَ: see 1, first sentence.

The name of a [Syrian] month [corresponding to August, O. S.]: an arabicized word. (IAar, M, K.)

an inf. n. of 1. (S, M, Msb, K.) ― -b2- Also The returning of the fore and hind legs of a beast in going along: (T, M, A, * K:) or quickness in the changing, or shifting, of the fore and hind legs in going along: (S:) and simply quickness, or swiftness. (M, K.) One says, مَا أَعْجَبَ أَوْبَ يَدَيْهَا How wonderful is the returning [or quick shifting] of her fore legs! (A.) And to one going at a quick pace, one says, الأَوْبَ الأَوْبَ [meaning Keep to the quick changing, or shifting, of the legs; a verb being understood: or Trot on! Trot on!]. (A.) ― -b3- A right, or direct, way, course, or tendency; syn. قَصْدٌ and اِسْتِقَامَةٌ. (M [in which these two syns. are mentioned together] and K [in which another explanation intervenes between them, namely عادة, as though they were meant to be understood in different senses, which I do not think to be the case].) ― -b4- A direction: as in the saying, رَمَى أَوبًا أَوْ أَوْبَيْنِ [He shot, or cast, in one direction, or in two directions]. (M, A.) ― -b5- A course, way, mode, or manner, of acting, or conduct, or the like: (A:) custom. (Lh, M, A, K.) You say, كُنْتُ عَلَى صَوْبِ فُلَانٍ وَأَوْبِهِ I was [proceeding] in the course, way, mode, or manner, of acting, &c., of such a one. (A.) And مَا زَالَ هٰذَا أَوْبَهُ This ceased not to be his course, way, mode, or manner, &c.: (A:) or his custom. (Lh, M, A.) ― -b6- A way, or road: (M, Msb, K:) a quarter: ('Eyn, M, A, K:) a tract, or side: ('Eyn, S:) a place: (S:) a place to which one returns [like مَآبٌ]. (A, Msb.) You say, جَاوأُوا مِنْ كُلِّ أَوْبٍ They came from every way, or road, (M, Msb,) or quarter, ('Eyn, M, A,) or tract, or side, ('Eyn, S,) and place, (S,) or place to which one returns. (A, Msb.) And أَوْبَا الوَادِى signifies The two sides of the valley. (A.) -A2- Bees: (M, K:) a quasi-pl. n.: as though the sing. were آيأِبٌ: AHn says that they are so called because of their returning to the مَبَآءَة, i. e. the place where they hive for the night. (M, TA.) See آيأِبٌ. ― -b2- The clouds. (K.) ― -b3- The wind. (K.)

and ↓ أَيْبَةٌ Return; (T, A, K;) as also ↓ إِيَابَةٌ, a subst. from آبَ. (Msb.) You say, لِيَهْنِيأْكَ أَوْبَةُ الغَايأِبِ [May the return of the absent give thee joy]. (TA.) And فُلانٌ سَرِيعُ الأَوْبَةِ and ↓ الأَيْبَةِ Such a one is quick in return. (A 'Obeyd, T, S. *) ― -b2- Return from disobedience to obedience; repentance. (TA in art. ايب.) ― -b3- كَلَامٌ لَا أَوْبَةَ لَهُ Speech, or language, without profit. (A.) -A2- أَوْبَةٌ is also the sing. of أَوْبَاتٌ, which signifies The legs of a beast. (K, TA.)

: see أَوْبَةٌ, in two places. -A2- Also, (as in some copies of the K,) or ↓ إِيبَةٌ, (accord. to the CK,) or ↓ آيأِبَةٌ, (accord. to the TK,) A noon-day draught or drink. (K.)

: see what next precedes.

A she-camel quick in the changing, or shifting, of her fore and kind legs in going along. (S.)