difficult, hard to please

, (S, A, MA, Msb, K,) aor. , (A, K,) inf. n. صُعُوبَةٌ; (S, MA, Msb, K;) and ↓ استصعب; (S, A, MA, Msb, K;) and ↓ اصعب, (IAar, K,) inf. n. إِصْعَابٌ; (IAar, TA;) It (a thing, Msb, or an affair, or event, S, MA, Msb, K) was, or became, صَعْب, (S, A, &c.,) i. e. difficult, hard, hard to be done or accomplished, hard to be borne or endured, or distressing. (A, MA, K.) One says, عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ ↓ استصعب, (S, MA, Msb,) like صَعُبَ, (S, Msb,) The affair, or event, was, or became, difficult, &c., to him. (MA.)

, (K,) inf. n. تَصْعِيبٌ; (TA;) [and] ↓ اصعبهُ, (A,) inf. n. إِصْعَابٌ; (KL;) and ↓ تصعّبهُ; (K;) He made, or rendered, it صَعْب, (A, K,) i. e. difficult, hard, &c. (A, K, KL.)

: see 1. ― -b2- Said of a camel, He was, or became, صَعْب [meaning refractory, or untractable]: (K, TA:) [and in like manner one says ↓ استصعب: (see its contr. استصحب:) and ↓ تصعّب, which is also said of a man:] and اصعب said of a camel, he was unridden, (A, TA,) and untouched by a rope. (A.) ― -b3- Also, said of a man, His camel was, or became, refractory, or untractable. (L, TA.) -A2- اصعبهُ: see 2. ― -b2- Also He left him (i. e. a camel) unridden, (S, K, TA,) and untouched by a rope, so that he became refractory, or untractable. (S, K.) [See مُصْعَبٌ]. ― -b3- And He found it (i. e. an affair, or event, S, Msb, or a thing, K) to be صَعْب [i. e. difficult, hard, &c.]; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ استصعبهُ: (Msb, K:) or both signify he saw it, or held it, to be so. (TA.) [See an ex. of the former in a verse cited voce رَيْثٌ.]

, intrans.: see 4. -A2- تصعّبهُ: see 2.

, intrans.: see 1, in two places: ― -b2- and see also 4. -A2- استصعبهُ: see 4.

Difficult, hard, hard to be done or accomplished, hard to be borne or endured, or distressing; (A, MA, K;) contr. of سَهْلٌ; (Mgh, TA;) as also ↓ صُعْبُوبٌ: (T, O, K, TA:) pl. of the former صِعَابٌ; (Msb;) and of ↓ the latter, صَعَابِيبُ. (T, TA.) One says أَمْرٌ صَعْبٌ A difficult, hard, or distressing, affair or event. (A.) And عَقَبَةٌ صَعْبَةٌ (thus in the A, but in the Msb and TA without any syll. signs,) [A mountainroad] difficult, hard, or distressing: (TA:) pl. عِقَابٌ صِعَابٌ (A, Msb *) and صَعْبَاتٌ with sukoon [to the ع because the word is an epithet; for if it were a subst., it would be صَعَبَاتٌ]. (Msb.) [Or عُقْبَةٌ صَعْبَةٌ may perhaps be meant in the TA, i. e. A difficult, hard, or distressing, stage of a journey.] ― -b2- Also Refractory, untractable, incompliant, obstinate, or stubborn; (K, * TA;) contr. of ذَلُولٌ; (S, A, TA;) applied to a camel, (S, A,) or to a beast; (TA;) [and to a man;] fem. صَعْبَةٌ, (S, TA,) which is applied to a woman: (S:) and the pl. of this is صِعَابٌ, [as of the masc.,] (TA,) and صَعْبَاتٌ, applied to women, with sukoon [to the ع because the word is an epithet]. (S, TA.) رَكِبَ النَّاسُ الصَّعْبَةَ وَالذَّلُولَ, occurring in a trad. of I'Ab, [lit. The people rode the refractory and the tractable she-camel,] means (assumed tropical:) the people entered upon difficult and easy affairs; i. e. they cared not for things, nor were cautious respecting what they said and did. (L, TA.) ― -b3- [Hence,] الصَّعْبُ The lion; (O, K;) because of his untractableness. (TA.)

: see the next preceding paragraph, first sentence, in two places.

Land containing stones such as fill the hand, and other stones, which is tilled, or cultivated. (K, TA.)

A stallion [of camels]: (S, K:) and a camel, (S, A,) or a stallion [of camels], (ISk, TA,) left unridden, and untouched by a rope, (ISk, S, A, TA,) so as to become refractory, or untractable: (S:) or an unbroken camel, upon whose back nothing is allowed to be put: (L, TA:) pl. مَصَاعِبُ and مَصَاعِيبُ. (ISk, TA.) ― -b2- It is also applied as an epithet to a man, (A, Msb, TA,) meaning مَسَوَّدٌ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) Made a chief or lord &c.]: (TA:) pl. مَصَاعِبُ. (A, Msb.) One says, فُلَانٌ مُصْعَبٌ مِنَ المَصَاعِبِ (tropical:) [Such a man is one of those who have been made chiefs or lords &c.]; like as one says, قَرْمٌ مِنَ القُرُومِ. (A.)

A man whose camel is refractory, or untractable: occurring in a trad. (L, TA.)