صاب

صَابَ • (ṣāba) I (non-past يَصُوبُ (yaṣūbu), verbal noun صَوْب (ṣawb) or صَيْبُوبَة (ṣaybūba))

1. (transitive, obsolete) to hit, to find the target in
   • a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, ضَيْفٌ أَلَمَّ بِرَأْسِي غَيْرَ مُحْتَشِمِ (ḍayfun ʔalamma biraʔsī ḡayra muḥtašimi)‎^[1]:

     قَبَّلْتُهَا وَدُمُوعِي مَزْجُ أَدْمُعِهَا // وَقَبَّلَتْنِي عَلَى خَوْفٍ فَمًا لِفَمِ
     فَذُقْتُ مَاءَ حَيَاةٍ مِنْ مُقَبَّلِهَا // لَوْ صَابَ تُرْبًا لَأَحْيَا سَالِفَ الْأُمَمِ

     qabbaltuhā wadumūʕī mazju ʔadmuʕihā // waqabbalatnī ʕalā ḵawfin faman lifami
     faḏuqtu māʔa ḥayātin min muqabbalihā // law ṣāba turban laʔaḥyā sālifa l-ʔumami

     I kissed her, and my tears mixed with hers, // and she kissed me timidly, mouth to mouth.
     I tasted the water of life from her kiss, // which may revive the ancestors, if it hit the earth.

2. (intransitive, transitive, obsolete) to descend, to rain

صَاب • (ṣāb) m

1. (obsolete) squirting cucumber

   Synonyms: فَقُّوس الْحِمَار (faqqūs al-ḥimār), قِثَّاء الحِمَار (qiṯṯāʔ al-ḥimār), (al-Andalus) عَلْقَم (ʕalqam)

   • a. 1050, مروان بن جناح [Marwān ibn Janāḥ], edited by Gerrit Bos, Fabian Käs, كتاب التلخيص [kitāb at-talḵīṣ] [On the Nomenclature of Medicinal Drugs], Leiden: Brill, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, 802 (fol. 68r,1–5), page 938:

     الصاب هو العلقم، وقال أبو حنيفة: الصاب شجر إذا اعتصر خرج منه كهيئة اللبن، فربّما نزتْ منه نزية، أي قطرة، فتقع في العين فكأنّها شهاب نار، وربّما أضعفت البصر.

     Aṣ-ṣāb is the squirting cucumber. Abū Ḥanīfa said: Aṣ-ṣāb is a shrub from which one brings out a milkish sap on squeeze. If a squirt, that is to say a single drop of it, touches the eye, it is afterwards [hurting] like fire-brand. It potentially weakens the eyesight.

From Arabic أَصَابَ (ʔaṣāba).

• IPA^(key): /sˤaːb/

صاب • (ṣāb) I (non-past يصيب (yṣīb))

1. to find

   Synonyms: لقى (lqa), جبر (jbar)