Form 1ثَبَوْتُ لَهُ خَيْرًا بَعْدَ خَيْرٍ1 sense
Core sense — I sent him good after good, or evil after evilgenerated
[See also form 2.]
Lane files this root under ثبو, and the entries below are that article. The Qur’ān’s own spelling is ثبى.
Core sense — I sent him good after good, or evil after evilgenerated
[See also form 2.]
Core sense — the collecting of things in groups; praising a man in his lifetime; completing a thinggenerated
[Maṣdar of ثبّى, mentioned in all its senses under ثبى, except the first of the senses below, which is given under ثبى and also under ثبو.]
Said of a thing, and of water. Also: he added to it and collected it.
Mentioned in the article ثبو.
The collecting of what is good, and also of what is bad or evil: the word carries both opposite meanings.
[And hence,] the praising of a man during his lifetime; or praising him time after time during his lifetime; or praising him much, as though relating collections of praise about him.
Because praising a man in his lifetime implies collecting his good qualities or actions.
on this sense Er-Rāghib: the mentioning of a person's various good qualities or actions.
on this sense And the magnifying [a person]; or honouring [him].
[And hence the opposite meaning,] the blaming, or censuring, much; collecting blame from this source and that. [The ism fāʿil is explained in a way agreeing with this.]
on this sense The completing [and augmenting] of a thing.
on this sense [See also form 1.]
The putting of a thing into a good, right, or sound state, and augmenting it.
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The maṣdar also means keeping to, or following, one's father's way of acting; or acting like one's father.
Also the complaining of one's state, or case, and of one's want; and asking for aid, and for vengeance.
[One of the meanings assigned to the verb by Golius, and by Freytag after him, is “Disposuit paravitque se”: apparently because Golius found الاِسْتِعْدَادُ written for الاِسْتِعْدَآءُ in a copy.]
Core sense — a company of men; a troop of horsemen; the middle of a watering-troughgenerated
[In the CK this word is wrongly written اَثْبِيَة.]
[In the CK, العَصَبَةُ is wrongly put for العُصْبَةُ.]
The plurals are ثُبَاتٌ, ثُبُونَ, ثِبُونَ, أَثَابِىُّ (the plural of أُثْبِيَّةٌ), and أَثَابِيَةٌ, in which last the ة is a substitute for the final ى [of أَثَابِىُّ].
Or, according to some, أَثَابِىُّ, which means companies, has no singular; but some say its singular is أَثْبِيَّةٌ, of the measure أُفْعُولَةٌ [originally أُثْبُويَةٌ], meaning a numerous company.
[It is also said that] ثُبًى is a plural of ثُبَةٌ in the sense of a company (as stated under ثوب); and hence the phrase الثُّبَى العَالِى for الثُّبَى العَالِيَةُ [the high, or exalted, companies], the first word being made masculine because it is like زُلَمٌ [which is singular and masculine]; but some say that here it means the assemblies of the nobles.
IAar says الثُّبَى العَالِى مِنْ مَجَالِسِ الأَشْرَافِ; but ISd observes that this is irregular, and that he has heard it only in the poetry of El-Find Ez-Zimmánee.
According to some it is from ثَابَ, being originally ثُوبَةٌ, and its diminutive is ثُوَيْبَةٌ; or it is originally ثُبَىٌ.
Er-Rāghib: the letter dropped from ثُبَةٌ when it means “a company,” but not when it relates to a watering-trough or tank, is ى.
ISd holds the dropped letter to be ى, and [if so,] its diminutive is ثُبَيَّةٌ. [But ISd adds,] IJ says the dropped letter is و, because that is the case in most instances, as in أَبٌ, أَخٌ, سَنَةٌ, عِضَةٌ, and so on.
This discussion is found under ثبو and ثبى. [See also ثوب.]
on this sense [It seems also to mean an assemblage, or collection, of things of any kind:] see form 2, in two places.
Also the middle of a watering-trough or tank, to which the water returns [when it has been emptied], or to which what remains of the water returns.
Aboo-Kheyreh: and the place where the water collects in a valley or low ground.
But this is from ثَابَ: the ة is a substitute for the و, the middle radical, which is dropped, so that it is originally ثُوَبٌ; or it is originally ثُوبَةٌ; or it may be from ثَبَّيْتُ, “I collected.”
Aboo-Is-hák makes it to be from ثَابَ المَآءُ, inferring this from their saying that the diminutive is ثُوَيْبَةٌ. [See also ثوب.]
Core sense — one who praises men much while they are livinggenerated
One who praises men much [while they are living: see form 2].
Core sense — a small company of mengenerated
See ثُبَةٌ, of which this is said to be the diminutive.
Core sense — a company of men, a distinct body of mengenerated
See ثُبَةٌ, in two places.
Core sense — property collected togethergenerated
Property collected together.