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اسبأ He (a man) was, or became, silent. (Sh, TA in art. رطم .) ― -b2- اسبأ لِأَمْرِ ا@للّٰهِ He, (M, K,) or his heart, (L,) was, or became, submissive to the decree of God. (M, L, K.) ― -b3- And اسبأ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ His heart became in a bad state, or heavy, ( خَبُثَ , [so in the M and in a copy of the K, in the CK and TA خَبَتَ , and thus in my MS. copy of the K, but there altered from خَبُثَ , app. on the authority of the TA, and I think it a mistranscription, although expl. in the TA as meaning اِنْخَضَعَ , which is a signification of أَخْبَتَ , the explanation of اسبأ in the next preceding sentence,]) at the thing. (M, K.)

انسبأ It (the skin) was, or became, stripped. off. (S, M.) ― -b2- And It (a person's skin) peeled off, or became abraded. (TA.)

اـِسْتَبَاَ see 1, first sentence.

سَبَأٌ : see سَبِيْيءَةٌ -A2- تَفَرَّقُوا أَيْدِى سَبَا , and أَيَادِى سَبَا , (M, K,) and with ذَهَبُوا in the place of تفرّقوا , (T, TA,) They became scattered, or dispersed, (K, TA,) and they went away in a state of dispersion, in the ways of Seba, (T, TA,) a people of El-Yemen, who were dispersed in consequence of the inundation of their lands by the bursting of their [famous] dam, (TA,) and who became proverbial on that account: (M, K, TA:) سَبَا is here made indecl., (M, K, TA, [ بَنُوهُ in the CK being a mistranscription for بَنَوْهُ , wherefore كما تَبَدَّد has been there interpolated, immediately before بَنُوهُ ,]) with the last letter quiescent, and forms, with the preceding word, a compound like خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ [which implies that we should read أَيْدِى سَبَا and أَيَادِىَسَبَا , but I have never found it thus written]: (TA:) it is not formed from سَبَأَ by suppression of the ء , but is a substitute for that word, (M, K, TA,) on account of the frequent use of this phrase. (M, TA.) [See also art. سبى .]

سُبْأَةٌ A long, or far, journey, (IAar, T, M, K,) that alters one: (IAar, M, TA:) so termed because the sun alters him who makes a long journey. (T, TA. [See 1.]) You say, اـِنَّكَ لَتُرِيدُ سُبْأَةً Verily thou desirest a long journey, (IAar, M, K, *) that will alter thee. (IAar, M.) In the case of a short journey, you say, تُرِيدُ سُرْبَةً . (T, TA.)

السَّبَيءِيَّةُ , (S, and so in a copy of the K,) or ↓ السَّبَايءِيَّةُ ; (so in another copy of the K and accord. to the CK;) MF says that the former is the correct term, but both are correct; (TA;) Certain of the غُلَاة , (S, K, TA,) i. e. extravagant zealots of the class of innovators; a party of the غُلَاة of the شِيعَة [q. v.]; who are divided into eighteen sects: (TA:) they are so called in relation to Seba ( سَبَأ ) the father of 'Abd-Allah, (K,) or in relation to 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Seba. (S.)

سِبَا=ءٌ [The purchase of wine;] a subst. from سَبَأَ الخَمْرَ ; (S;) or an inf. n. (M, K, TA.) -A2- See also سَبِيْيءَةٌ , in two places.

سَبِىْءٌ The skin, or slough, of a serpent; (K;) as also سَبِىٌّ ; for it is with, and without, ء . (TA.)

سَبِيْيءَةٌ (S, M, K) and ↓ سِبَا=ءٌ (M, K) and, accord. to Ks, ↓ سَبَأْ , but the form commonly known is ↓ سِبَا=ءٌ , with kesr to the س , and with medd, (IAmb, TA,) Wine, (S, M, K,) in an absolute sense; (TA;) or, [as is perhaps meant in the S,] wine that is bought to be drunk, not for merchandise. (Har p. 409, in explanation of the first word.) [See an ex. of the second in a verse of Lebeed cited in art. دكن : and see also سَبِيَّةٌ , in art. سبى .]

السَّبَايءِيَّةُ : see السَّبَيءِيَّةُ , above.

سَبَّا=ءٌ A vintner, or seller of wine. (S, M, K.) ― -b2- [It is said in a marginal note in my MS. copy of the K that it signifies also A seller of graveclothes: but this is evidently a mistake, app. occasioned by a mistranscription, for سَيَّا=ء , with ى .]

مَسْبَأٌ A road (S, K) in a mountain. (S.)