mahāb

object of reverence

مَهاب

Word

Noun

Root

ه ي ب

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البحر إنما هو بالرياح، ومعرفة جهات مهابها، وإلى أين يوصل إذا مرت على الاستقامة من البلاد التي في ممر ذلك المهب.

The Muqaddimah, page 13 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 12 entries
  • هَابَهُ Form I He revered, venerated, respected, honoured, dreaded, or feared, him or it
    , (S, K, &c.,) first pers. هِبْتُ, originally هَبِيْتُ, (S,) aor. يَهَابُ, (S, K,) [originally يَهْيَبُ,] and يَهِيبُ, (IKtt, cited by MF,) imp. هَبْ, originally هَابْ, (S,) inf. n. هَيْبَةٌ (S, K, Msb) and مَهَابَةٌ (S, K) and هَيْبٌ; (K;) and ↓ اهتابه and ↓ تهيّبه; (K;) [He revered, venerated, respected, honoured, dreaded, or feared, him or it;] he regarded him or it, i. e., anything, TA,) with reverence, veneration, respect, honour, dread, or awe; (S, K, * Msb, TA;) and fear; (S, K;) cautious fear, or caution. (K, Msb.) ― -b2- هَبِ النَّاسَ يَهَابُوكَ Reverence men, [and] they will reverence thee. (TA.) ― -b3- هُوبَ, in which the original ى is changed into و, [He (a man) was regarded with reverence, veneration, or awe; with fear; or with cautious fear, or caution]. (S, K.)
  • هَيَّبْتُهُ إِلَيْهِ Form II I made it to be regarded by him with reverence, veneration, or awe; with fear
    I made it to be regarded by him with reverence, veneration, or awe; with fear; or with cautious fear, or caution. (S, K.)
  • اهاب بِصَاحِبِهِ Form IV He called his companion
    (tropical:) He called his companion. And in like manner, أَهَبْتُ بِهِ إِلَى الخَيْرِ (tropical:) I called him, or invited him, to what was good. (MF.) ― -b2- اهاب بِالإِبِلِ He called to the camels, in driving them or urging them, by the cry هَابْ هَابْ. (K.) ― -b3- اهاب بِغَنَمِهِ He (a pastor) cried out to his sheep, or goats, in order that they might stop, or return: and اهاب بِالبَعِيرِ [He cried out to the camel, for the same purpose]. (S.) الإِهَابَةُ is The crying out to camels, and calling them. (As and others.) ― -b4- اهاب بَالخَيْلِ He called the horses, or called out to them by the cry هَابِ, (so in the S and in a MS. copy of the K: in the CK, هَابْ,) or by the cry of هَبْ and هَبِى, meaning Come! Approach! or Advance boldly! (K.) Az remarks his having heard هاب used [as a cry] only to horses; not to camels. (TA.) See هَبْهَبَ, in art. هب.
  • تَهَيَّبَ Form V It filled me with awe, or fear
    see 1. ― -b2- تَهَيَّبَنِى It filled me with awe, or fear: (El Jarmee:) it made me to fear: (S, ISd, Msb:) I regarded it with awe, or fear; i. q. تَهَيَّبْتُهُ: (Th:) I feared it; i. q. خِفْتُهُ. (S, ISd, K.) Ibn-Mukbil says, " وَمَاتَهَيَّبُنِى المَوْمَاةُ أَرْكَبُهَا إِذَا تَجَاوَبَتِ الأَصْدَاءُ بِالسَّحَرِ " [And the waterless desert fills me not with awe, or fear; (or makes me not to fear, &c.;) I ride over it when the male owls (?) answer one another at early dawn: تهيّبنى being for تَتَهَيَّبُنِى]. (S, &c.)
  • إِهْتَيَبَ Form VIII Open entry
    see 1.
  • هَبْ Cries to horses, meaning, Come! Approach!
    (K) and ↓ هَابِ and ↓ هَبِى, (S, K,) [but respecting the second of these words see 4,] Cries to horses, meaning, Come! Approach! (S, K,) or Advance boldly! (K.)
  • هَابِ Open entry
    and هَبِى: see هَبْ.
  • هَابٌ A serpent
    (assumed tropical:) A serpent. (K.) ― -b2- هَابٌ A calling to camels, in driving, or urging, them, by the cry هَابْ هَابْ. (K.) ― -b3- See 4.
  • هَيْبَانٌ Open entry
    : see هَايأِبٌ, and مَهِيبٌ.
  • هَيُوبٌ Open entry
    : see هَايأِبٌ, and مَهِيبٌ.
  • هَيْبَةٌ Reverence, veneration, respect, honour, dread, or awe; fear
    and ↓ مَهَابَةٌ: see 1. ― -b2- [As substs., Reverence, veneration, respect, honour, dread, or awe; fear; cautious fear, or caution.] ― -b3- Also, great, reverend, or venerable, dignity; a quality inspiring reverence or veneration or respect or honour; venerableness; awfulness; a quality inspiring dread or awe. (MF.)
  • هَيَّبٌ Open entry
    : see هَايأِبٌ.

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