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أوّب : 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 اـِسْا=دٌ 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 ↓ مُوءَاوَبَةٌ (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 مِيءْوَبَا ↓ وَاـِنْ تُوءَاوِبْهُ [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, تُوءَوِّبْهُ . (T.)

ا=وب 5 , inf. n. مُوءَاوَبَةٌ : see 2, in two places.

تأوّب and تأيّب : see 1, in five places.

ايءتاب : see 1, in three places.

أَيَّبَ , originally أَيْوَبَ : see 1, first sentence.

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

أَوْبٌ 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 مَا=بٌ ]. (A, Msb.) You say, جَاوءُوا 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 ا=يءِبٌ : AHn says that they are so called because of their returning to the مَبَا=ءَة , i. e. the place where they hive for the night. (M, TA.) See ا=يءِبٌ . ― -b2- The clouds. (K.) ― -b3- The wind. (K.)

أَوْبَةٌ and ↓ أَيْبَةٌ Return; (T, A, K;) as also ↓ اـِيَابَةٌ , a subst. from ا=بَ . (Msb.) You say, لِيَهْنِيءْكَ أَوْبَةُ الغَايءِبِ [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.)

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

اـِيبَةٌ ايبه ايبة آيب آيبه آيبة : see what next precedes.

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

اـِيَابَةٌ اـياب اـيابه ايابه ايابة : see أَوْبَةٌ .

أَوَّابٌ Frequent in returning. (T.) ― -b2- Frequent in returning unto God, from one's sins; (M, TA;) wont to repent, or frequent in repenting: (Zj, T, A, Mgh, Msb:) or turning from disobedience to obedience: or (S, L:) or a praiser of God; (Sa'eed Ibn-Jubeyr, TA;) by which is here meant, in the prayer of the period of the forenoon called الضُّحَى , when the sun is high, and the heat violent; hence termed صَلَاةُ الأَوَّابِينَ ; which is performed when the young camels feel the heat of the sun from the parched ground: (TA:) or obedient: (Katádeh, TA:) or one who reflects upon his sins in solitude, and prays God to forgive them: (TA:) or one who keeps, or is mindful of, the ordinances prescribed by God, ( حَفِيظٌ , [which is thus explained by Bd and Jel as occurring in the Kur l. 31,]) and does not rise from his sitting-place until he begs forgiveness of God: ('Obeyd Ibn-'Omeyr, T, TA: * [but this is evidently meant as an explanation of أَوَّابٌ together with حَفِيظٌ : see the Kur ubi suprà:]) or one who sins, and then returns to obedience, and then sins, and then returns to obedience. (TA.)

ا=يءِبٌ act. part. n. of ا=بَ ; Returning: [&c.:] (M, Msb:) pl. أُوَّابٌ and أُيَّابٌ and ↓ أَوْبٌ [q. v.]: (M, K:) or, accord. to some, the last is a quasipl. n. (M, TA.)

ا=يءِبَةٌ The coming of camels to water, to drink, every night: whence the saying, لَا تَرِدَنَّ المَا=ءَ اـِلَّا ا=يءِبَهْ [Do not thou come to the water, to drink, unless coming to it every night]. (IAar, M.) ― -b2- See also أَيْبَةٌ .

مَا=بٌ ما=ب A place to which one returns: (T, S, K:) a settled, or fixed, abode, or dwelling-place: (TA:) the place to which one is translated, or removed, by death: (K, TA:) the goal to which the course of life ultimately leads one; or place to which one returns in the ultimate state, or world to come. (T, TA.) ― -b2- The place where the sun sets. (TA.) ― -b3- [A day-journey: pl. مَا=وِبُ ; as in the saying,] بَيْنَهُمَ ثَلَاثُ مَا=وِبَ Between them two are three day-journeys. (K.)

مِيءْوَبٌ [A camel that overcomes in vying with another, or others, in pace, or going]: see an ex. voce أَوَّبَ . (T.)

مَا=بَةُ البِيءْرِ [The place where the water flows again into the well to supply the deficiency occasioned by drawing;] the مَبَا=ءَة of the well; i. e. the place where the water collects in the well. (TA.)

رِيحٌ مُوءَوِبَةٌ , (IB, CK,) or مُوءَوَّبَةٌ , (as in a copy of the M, and in some copies of the K,) A wind blowing throughout the whole day: (M, K:) or a wind that comes at night. (IB.)

مُوءْتَابٌ : see مُتَأَوِّبٌ , in two places.

مُتَأَوَّبٌ an inf. n. of 5, q. v.; as also ↓ مُتَأَيَّبٌ . (M, * K.)

مُتَأَوِّبٌ Returning to one's family at, or in, the night; as also ↓ مُوءْتَابٌ : (TA:) or, as also ↓ مُتَأَيِبٌ , coming at night: or coming in the beginning of the night: (S:) [and so ↓ مُوءْتَابٌ , as in the following ex.:] وَمَنْ يَتَّقْ فَاـِنَّ ا@للّٰهَ مَعْهُ وَرِزْقُ ا@للّٰهِ مُوءْتَابٌ وَغَادِ [And whoso feareth God, verily God is with him; and the supply of God cometh to him at night, or in the beginning of the night, and cometh early in the morning: يَتَّقْ being here put for يَتَّقِ , by a necessary poetical licence: see art. وقى ]. (S.)

مُتَأَيَّبٌ : see مُتَأَوَّبٌ .

مُتَأَيِبٌ : see مُتَأَوِّبٌ .