شيب

He became white-haired, or hoary: maṣdar شَيْبٌ, شَيْبَةٌ, and مَشِيبٌ.

Maṣdar شَيْبٌ and شَيْبَةٌ.

So explained by ISk as used in the following saying, ascribed by J to ʿAdee, though it is really by ʿAbeed Ibn-El-Abras: [You incline to silly and youthful conduct: but where does that inclining come from, when hoariness, or the entering upon the period of hoariness, has whitened the head?]

See also form 2.

This last is a strange phrase, as it shows together two ways of making a verb transitive: the doubling of the middle radical letter and the addition of the preposition بِ.

Said of a man: he had children that had become white-headed, or hoary.

See also the preceding paragraph, in two places.

The hair itself: it is sometimes so called, but apparently only when white, or hoary, a sense in which it is often used, as in the articles خضب and صبغ and elsewhere.

Both this and the headword are used as simple nouns and are also maṣdars.

Or the headword means whiteness of the hair, whether little or much.

An example of this word is given in the first paragraph.

In the Qurʼān 19:3, spreading like the way the light of fire spreads in firewood; or the head has become glistening with whiteness of the hair, or hoariness. شيبا is in the accusative case as a specifying word; or, according to Akh, as a maṣdar, as though وَشَابَ الرَّأْسُ شَيْبًا were said.

Said of a whip: the thong at its upper end. A genuine Arabic word of well-known meaning. There are two such thongs, called شِيبَانِ.

Also a word imitating the sounds made by the lips of camels in drinking.

And the plural of أَشْيَبُ.

A plural whose singular is doubted: see أَشْيَبُ.

A maṣdar of form 1.

Also, in the present day, applied to a species of artemisia (Forskål's Flor. Aegypt. Arab., p. 73, no. 439); the artemisia arborescens of Linn. (Delile's Flor. Aegypt. Illustr., no. 799).

See أَشْيَبُ, near the end of the paragraph.

So in a verse of El-Kumeyt, as related by Ibn-Selemeh, with kesr to the ش and م. The first word is also written شَيْبَانُ, and sometimes شِيبَانُ; the second is as above, and sometimes مَلْحَانُ.

As though meaning the second of the Six Seasons, beginning two months after the autumnal equinox; see the first of the two tables on page 1254.

The same as شَهْرَا قِمَاحٍ, which are the two coldest months; so called because the earth is then white with snow and hoar-frost.

They fall at the time of the rising, just before dawn, of the Scorpion and the Vulture, العَقْرَب and النَّسْر; by the latter is meant النَّسْرُ الوَاقِعُ, that is, the star a of Lyra. Someone who does not know says that they are the two Kānoons, كَانُونُ الأَوَّلُ and كَانُونُ الثَّانِى, corresponding to December and January Old Style.

They do seem to agree nearly with the two Kānoons, for El-Kazweenee and others say that القَلْبُ, the heart of the Scorpion, which is the 18th of the Mansions of the Moon, and النَّسْرُ الوَاقِعُ rise together, and their rising just before dawn in Central Arabia, about the beginning of the era of the Flight, was by my calculation on the 25th of November Old Style; see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ in the article نزل, and see also مِلْحَانُ and قِمَاحٌ.

It is also said that شِيبَانُ, used alone, is a name of the month كانون الاوّل, because of the whiteness of the earth from hoar-frost and snow.

And شِيَابَةٌ [the former written wrongly by Golius as شَيَّابٌ]: see شَوْبٌ in the article شوب.

See أَشْيَبُ.

[Being, or becoming, white-haired, or hoary]: see أَشْيَبُ.

White-haired, white-headed, or hoary.

[It is said to be] irregular in form, for an adjective of this measure is formed by rule only from a verb of the measure فَعِلَ, and only on the condition that it denotes a defect or the like, or a colour. But أَشْيَبُ means white-headed, or hoary-headed, [so that it does denote a colour;] and El-Khafājee says that it is counted among adjectives denoting defects or blemishes, like أَعْمَى and أَعْرَجُ.

It is said in the K that it has no فَعْلَآء, that is, the adjective شَيْبَآءُ is not applied to a woman, شَمْطَآءُ being used instead, though one says شَابَ رَأْسُهَا. [But see Har p. 418, where شَيْبَآءُ is mentioned, applied to a woman, meaning aged and white, or hoary, in the head; and see شَيْبَآءُ in art. شوب.]

The plural is شِيبٌ, with which شُيَّبٌ is synonymous (in the TA, given as from the K, though I have not found it in the copies of the K I have been able to use), and also شُيُبٌ. This last is said by IM to be allowable in poetry, عَلَى التَّمَامِ [here meaning as though it were a word composed of sound letters]; and this is what the lexicologists in general assert. ISd thinks it is the plural of شَائِبٌ, as بُزُلٌ is of بَازِلٌ, or the plural of شَيُوبٌ [which apparently means very white, or hoary, in the head], according to the dialect of the people of El-Ḥijāz, who say دَجَاجَةٌ بَيُوضٌ and دَجَاجٌ بُيُضٌ.

See شَيْبٌ, in two places.