support, back, gather firewood

, (S, A, K,) aor. , (K,) inf. n. حَطْبٌ, (TA,) He collected حَطَب, (S, A, K,) i. e. firewood; (A, K;) as also ↓ احتطب: (S, A, K:) [and] so حَطَبَ الحَطَبَ, (Mgh, Msb,) aor. and inf. n. as above; and ↓ احتطب. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] حَطَبَ فِى حَبْلِهِ, (A,) or فى حَبْلِهِمْ, (K,) [lit. He collected firewood in his, or their, rope; meaning] (tropical:) he aided, or assisted, (A, K,) him, (A,) or them. (K.) One says, إِنَّكَ تَحْطِبُ فِى حَبْلِهِ وَ تَمِيلُ إِلَى هَوَاهُ (tropical:) [Verily thou aidest him, and inclinest to his desire]. (A, TA.) ― -b3- And حَطَبَ عَلَيْهِ بِخَيْرٍ (A, Mgh) (tropical:) He brought to him خير, (Mgh,) meaning wealth, or property. (A.) ― -b4- And فُلَانٌ يَحْطِبُ عَلَى فُلَانٍ (assumed tropical:) Such a one incites, urges, or instigates, [others] against such a one. (Har p. 209.) ― -b5- And حَطَبَ بِهِ (tropical:) He calumniated him, or slandered him. (A, Mgh, Msb, K. [See حَطَبٌ, below.]) -A2- حَطَبَهُ, (S, K,) aor. , (TA,) He collected firewood for him: (K:) or he brought firewood to him: (S, K:) as also لَهُ ↓ احتطب. (TA.) You say, فُلَانٌ يَحْطِبُ رُفَقَآءَهُ وَ يَسْقِيهِمْ [Such a one collects firewood for, or brings firewood to, his companions, and gives them to drink]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- Also He collected for him a thing as firewood. (TA.) ― -b3- حَطَبُوا كَرْمَهُمْ, inf. n. حَطْبٌ, [and app. also حِطَابٌ, which see below, or this may be a simple subst.,] (tropical:) They cut off the حَطَب of their grapevine; (A;) i. e. the dry portions thereof, that were of no use but for fire. (Mgh.) -A3- حَطَبَ and ↓ احطب It, (a place, K,) or he, (a man, TA,) abounded with firewood. (K, * TA.) -A4- حَطُبَ He was, or became, lean, or meagre. (A.)

: see 1. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) It (a grape-vine) attained to the time for having its حَطَب [q. v.] cut off from it: (S:) or (tropical:) attained to the time of bearing grapes and for the cutting off of what required to be cut off; as also ↓ استحطب: (A:) or the latter, it required to have its upper, or uppermost, portions cut off, (K,) or somewhat of those portions. (TA.)

: see 1, in three places. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) It (rain) tore up the roots, or stems, of the trees [as though it made firewood of them]. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) He (a camel, TA) fed upon the small and dry parts of the branches. (K, TA.) This a camel does only by reason of soundness, and of surpassing strength. (TA.) ― -b4- احتطب عَلَيْهِ فِى الأَمْرِ i. q. احتقب [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) He took upon himself a burden, or a responsibility, in the affair; as though he bound it like a bundle of firewood upon his back]. (K.)

see 4.

Firewood; the portions of trees that are prepared for fuel: (M, A, K:) pl. أَحْطَابٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, because enmity is kindled with it like as fire is with حَطَب [properly so called], (Har p. 209,) (tropical:) Calumny, or slander; (A, Mgh, TA;) also termed الحَطَبُ الرَّطْبُ. (TA.) The former is said to have this meaning in the Kur cxi. 4: (Mgh, TA:) or to mean thorns, which the woman there spoken of is related to have been in the habit of throwing in the way of Mohammad. (TA.) You say, يَحْمِلُ الحَطَبَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ, meaning (tropical:) He goes about with calumny, or slander, among, or between, the people. (A.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) The prunings of a grape-vine; (S, * A;) and so ↓ حِطَابٌ: (A:) the dry portions of a grape-vine that are of no use but for fire: (Mgh:) ― -b4- the latter is explained by ISh as meaning the prunings that are cut off each year from the upper, or uppermost, portions of a grape-vine. (TA.)

, applied to a man, (S,) [and app. to cattle, (see خَشَبٌ,)] (assumed tropical:) Very lean or meagre; as also ↓ أَحْطَبُ: (S, K:) or the latter means unlucky, or unfortunate; syn. مَشْوأُومٌ; (K;) in some copies of the K مَوْسُومٌ; (TA;) and its fem. is حَطْبَآءُ. (K.)

[app. an inf. n., see 1,] (assumed tropical:) The pruning of a grape-vine until reaching the part in which the sap runs. (K.) ― -b2- See also حَطَبٌ, in two places.

, (S, Msb, K,) fem. with ة, (K,) A place, (S, Msb, K,) or land, (K,) abounding with firewood. (S, * Msb, K.)

A handful, or bundle, of firewood. (K, * TA.)

: see حَاطِبٌ. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A camel that feeds upon the small and dry parts of branches: (K, TA:) fem. with ة. (TA.) [See 8.]

A collector of firewood: (Msb, TA:) and so ↓ حَطَّابٌ, (A, Msb,) but in an intensive sense: (Msb:) or the latter, one who collects and sells firewood: (TA:) and حَطَّابَةٌ a company of collectors of firewood: (S, Mgh:) and إِمَآءٌ حَوَاطِبُ [pl. of حَاطِبَةٌ] female slaves who collect firewood. (A, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ حَاطِبُ لَيْلٍ (tropical:) He is one who confuses in his speech, (A, K,) and in his affair: (TA:) or one who speaks what is bad and what is good: (S, TA:) like him who collects firewood by night; (TA;) for this person sees not what he collects in his rope, (S, TA,) so he collects bad and good. (TA.) Az says, one who acts unjustly towards himself is likened to a collector of wood by night, because the latter may chance to put his hand upon a viper, and be bitten by it: and so is one who does not restrain his tongue, but censures others; by doing which a man sometimes occasions his own death. (TA.) It is said in a prov., المِكْثَارُ حَاطِبُ لَيْلٍ (tropical:) The loquacious is [like] a collector of firewood by night. (A 'Obeyd, TA.)

: see حَطِبٌ.