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غَابَ , (S, O, Mgh, Msb, TA,) aor. يَغِيبُ,
(Msb,) inf. n. غَيْبَةٌ [the most common form] (S,
O, Mgh, Msb, K) and غَيْبٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and
غَيَابٌ, (S, O,) or غِيَابٌ, (Msb, K,) and غُيُوبٌ (S,
O, Msb, K) and غُيُوبَةٌ (O, K) and غَيْبُوبَةٌ, (O,
K,) accord. to some of the measure فَعْلُولَةٌ, but
accord. to others of the measure فَيْعَلُولَةٌ i. e. originally غَيَّبُوبَةٌ, (MF,) and مَغِيبٌ (S, O, Msb, K)
and مَغَابٌ; (K;) and ↓ تغيّب; (Msb, K;) He,
or it, was, or became, absent; غَابَ being the contr.
of حَضَرَ; (S and K in art. حضر;) or distant, or
remote; (Mgh;) or hidden, concealed, or unapparent; (TA;) [or absent from the range, or
beyond the reach, of perception by sense, or of
mental perception: see غَيْبٌ.] You say, غاب عَنْهُ,
inf. n. غَيْبَةٌ (S, Mgh, TA) &c., as above, (S, TA,)
He, or it, was, or became, [absent from him; or]
distant, or remote, from him; (Mgh;) or hidden,
or concealed, from him; [&c.;] as also ↓ تغيّب.
(TA.) And أَوْحَشَتْنِى غَيْبَةُ فُلَانٍ [The absence of
such a one has made me to feel lonely]: and أَطَلْتَ
غَيْبَتَكَ [Thou hast made thine absence to be long].
(A.) And ↓ أَنَا مَعَكُمْ لَا أُغَايِبُكُمْ [I am with you:
I will not be absent from you]. (A.) And بَنُو
فُلَانٍ يَشْهَدُونَ أَحْيَانًا وَيَتَغَايَبُونَ ↓ أَحْيَانًا (ISk, S,
TA) i. e. [The sons of such a one are present sometimes] and are absent (يَغِيبُونَ) sometimes: but
one does not say ↓ يَتَغَيَّبُونَ [unless with عَنْ following it]: (TA:) [it seems, however, that
يتغيّبون, here, is a mistranscription for يَتَغَيَّبُونَنَا
or the like; for] one says, تغيّب ↓ عَنِّى فُلَانٌ
[Such a one was, or became, absent from me; or
absented himself from me]; (S, K, * TA;) and
↓ تَغَيَّبَنِى also in a case of necessity in verse, (S,
K, TA,) but not in any other case, (K, TA,)
accord. to the generality of authorities except the
Koofees: (TA:) Imra-el-Keys says,
فَظَلَّ لَنَا يَوْمٌ لَذِيذٌ بِنَعْمَةٍ
فَقُلْ فِى مَقِيلٍ نَحْسُهُ مُتَغَيِّبِى
[thus in my copies of the S and in the TA; but
we should read مُتَغَيِّبِ, whether it mean مُتَغَيِّبِى
or not, as is shown by what follows: the verse
may be rendered, So a delightful day, with ease
and comfort, betided us: and say thou, of a place
of midday-sleep whereof the ill luck was absent
from me,. . .]: but Fr says that the word
متغيّب is marfooa, [i. e. that the right reading is
مُتَغَيِّبُ, meaning simply absent,] that the verse is
مُكْفَأ [or made faulty in the termination], and that
it is not allowable to make that word refer to
مَقِيلٍ, like as it is not allowable to say مَرَرْتُ
بِرَجُلٍ أَبُوهُ قَائِمٍ. (S, TA. [One might be tempted
to suppose that we should read فَقِلْ; but this
would not suit the context, which see in Ahlwardt's “ Divans of the six ancient Arabic poets, ”
p. 119.]) ―
2-b2- [غاب, inf. n. غَيْبَةٌ, is also said of the
mind (القَلْب), meaning (assumed tropical:) It was, or became,
absent. The inf. n. (غَيْبَةٌ) is often used as meaning (assumed tropical:) Absence of mind; and particularly, from
self and others by its being exclusively occupied by
the contemplation of divine things: see an ex. voce
شَوًى; and another voce سَكِينَةٌ.] ―
2-b3- مَا غَابَ عَنْهُ
ٱبْنُ أَبِى قُحَافَةَ (assumed tropical:) [Ibn-Abee-Koháfeh was not a
stranger to it, i. e. was not unacquainted with it,]
occurs in a trad. respecting a satirical saying of
Hassán against [the tribe of] Kureysh; meaning
that Aboo-Bekr [the son of Aboo-Koháfeh] was
skilled in genealogies and traditions, and that it
was he who instructed Hassán. (TA.) ―
2-b4- And
one says also, غاب الرَّجُلُ, inf. n. غَيْبٌ and مَغِيبٌ;
and ↓ تغيّب; The man journeyed; and went
away, or far away. (TA.) ―
2-b5- And غابت الشَّمْسُ,
(S, Mgh, Msb, TA,) inf. n. غِيَابٌ and غَيْبُوبَةٌ
(Mgh, Msb, TA) and غَيْبَةٌ (Mgh) and غُيُوبٌ and
غُيُوبَةٌ and مَغِيبٌ; (TA;) and ↓ تغيّبت; (Msb;)
The sun set: (S, Msb, TA:) and the like is also
said of the moon, (Msb,) and of other celestial
bodies. (TA.) ―
2-b6- And غاب الشَّىْءُ فِى الشَّىْءِ,
inf. n. غِيَابَةٌ and غُيُوبَةٌ and غِيَابٌ and غَيَابٌ and
غِيبَةٌ, [The thing became hidden, or concealed, in
the thing.] (K.) ＝
1-A2- See also 8, in two places.