آب āb
P آب āb [Old P. āw, Pehl. āp, Zend ap, S. -अप्] s.m. Water; water or lustre (in gems); temper (of steel, &c.); edge or sharpness (of a sword, &c.); sparkle, lustre; splendour; elegance; dignity, honour, character, reputation.—āb-āb honā, To be drenched with perspiration; to be thoroughly ashamed or abashed; to blush.—īb-utarnā, To lose lustre or polish, become dull; to rade; to lose honour, be disgraced.—āb-bigaṛnā = āb utarnā.—āb-i-bārān, s.m. Rain-water.—āb-bāzī, s.f. Play or sport in water; swimming.—āb-i-basta, s.m. Ice; glass.—āb-pāshī, s.f. Sprinkling water; watering fields, &c.; irrigation.—āb-tāb (and āb o tāb), s.f. Brightness, brilliance, lustre, splendour; dignity, grandeur, majesty, glory, pomp:—āb o tāb denā (-ko), To impart lustre (to); to glorify, praise, honour.—āb-tāba, s.m. An ewer with a spout, a jug.—āb-i-jārī, s.m. Running water, stream, rivulet; tears running down the cheeks.—āb jānā = āb utarnā, q.v.—āb-i-ioë, s.m. Water of a rivulet.—āb-jo, s.f. Rivulet, steamlet.—āb-josh, s.m. Juice of cooked meat, broth, soup, gravy.—āb ćaṛhānā (-par), To cause lustre to come (upon), to give brightness (to), to make bright, burnish, polish; to temper (steel, &c.); to whet, sharpen (a sword, &c.).—āb-i-ćashm, s.m. Water of the eyes, tears.—āb-ćashī, s.f. Giving an infant water to drink for the first time (generally when about six months old) preparatory to weaning.—āb-i-haram, s.m. Unclean or forbiddea water; wine; hypocritical tears.—āb-i-ḥasrat, s.m. Water of desire; wish, louging, appetite.—āb-i-ḥayāt, s.m. Water of life; immortality; fountain of life; a fabulous fountain (said to be veiled in obscurity); inspired knowledge (=āb-i-ḵẖiẓr); clear, cold, sweet water; drinking water used by a king.—āb-i-ḥaiwān, s.m.=āb-i-haiyāt, q.v.—āb-ḵẖāna, s.m. Place where drinking water is kept, repository of water; reservoir.—āb-ḵẖāst, s.m. Melon, cucumber.—āb-i-ḵẖiẓr, s.m. Water of life, &c.; inspired knowledge (see āb-i-haiyāt, and also ḵẖiẓr).—āb-ḵẖur and āb-ḵẖurd, s.m. Drinking; meat and drink (=āb-dāna and dānā-pānī), victuals; place of drinking water; fortune, lot, destiny.—āb-ḵẖora, s.m. A narrow-mouthed earthen or metal vessel for holding water (syn. kūza); goblet; cup of water:—āb-ḵẖora bharnā, To offer a libation of cups of sherbet or milk.—āb-dār, s.m. The servant who has charge of the drinking water;—adj. Polished, bright; of a good water (as gems); well-tempered (as steel, &c.); sharp (as a sword. &c.); pure, clean, white:—āb-dār-ḵẖāna, s.m. The place where drinking water is kept.—āb-dārī, s.f. The office of āb-dār; brilliancy (of gems); lustre, polish; sharpness (of a sword, &c.); purity, clearness, whiteness.—āb-dāna (and āo o dāna), s.m. Water and grain; meat and drink (=dānā-pīnī), food, victuals; means of subsistence, livelihood, employment; lot, fortune, destiny.—āb-dast, s.m. Purificatory washing (such as washing the hands, &c. preparatory to prayer, or before eating, or after an unclean act); ablution; washing oneself after easing nature (this is the common signification of the word in India); a skilful
workman (one whose hands turn out clean and polished work,—a rare signification);—adj. Having clean hands, pure, spotless (rare):—āb-dast karnā, To wash or purify (the hands, &c.); to wash oneself after easing nature:—āb-dast lenā, Idem.—āb-i-dandān, s.m. Sharpness and polish of the teeth; weakness, baseness (rare):—āb-dandān, s.m. Watering of the mouth; a species of pear; a species of pomegranate; a kind of delicious sweetmeat;—adj. Weak, vile, (rare).—āb-i-dahān, s.m. Water of the mouth, saliva.—āb-i-dīda, s.m. Water of the eyes, tears:—āb-dīda, adj. & adv. Having tears in the eyes, in tears:—āb-dīda honā, To have tears in the eyes, to shed tears.—āb-rū, s.f. Lit. 'brightness of face'; honour, character, reputation, rank, dignity; grandeur; pride, credit, ornament, show, appearance:—āb-rū utārnā (-kī), To drag down the character or reputation (of), to disgrace, dishonour; to abuse, vilify; to violate the chastity (of), to debauch; to commit an indecent assault (upon):—āb-rū bar-bād denā (-kī), To give one's honour or character to the winds, to sacrifice one's reputation; to destroy the reputation or character (of):—āb-rū bigāṛnā = āb-rū utārnā, q.v.—āb-rū pānā, To obtain rank, dignity, or renown:—āb-rū paidā karnā, Idem:—āb-rū ḥāsil karnā, Idem:—āb-rū ḵẖāk meṅ milānā (-kī), To lay one's honour in the dust; to destroy the character or reputation (of):—āb-rū denī, To pay or do honour (to); to confer rank or dignity (on), to dignify, ennoble, exalt; to sacrifice or lose one's own honour or character:—āb-rū rakhnā, To preserve one's honour or reputation:—āb-rū-rez, s.m. A vilifier, calumniator:—āb-rū-rezī, s.f. Slander, calumny:—āb-rū-kā lāgū honā, To be bent on ruining one's honour, character, or reputation:—āb-rū karnā (-kī), To pay or do honour (to), to treat with respect:—āb-rū ke pīćhe paṛnā (-kī) = āb-rū-kā lāgū honā, q.v.—āb-rū lenā (kī) = āb-rū utārnā, q.v.:—āb-rū meṅ baṭṭā lagnā, To be stained in character or reputation:—āb-rū-meṅ farq ānā or ā-jānā, Idem.—āb-i-ravān, s.m. Lit. 'Running water'; a very fine kind of muslin.—āb-rez, s.m. 'Pouring or sprinkling water'; a watering-pot; a shower-bath.—āb-i-zar, s.m. Water of gold; white wine.—āb-i-zulāl, s.m. Pure, clear, cool water; an infusion.—āb-shār, s.m.f. Water-fall, cascade.—āb-shinās, s.m. One who takes soundings in a ship, lead-man, pilot.—āb-i-shor, s.m. Salt water; sea-water; the sea.—āb-shora, s.m. Water cooled with saltpetre; a sherbet made of lime-juice and sugar (generally cooled), lemonade.—āb-i-ʻashrat, s.m. Wine; semen genitale.—āb-kār, s.m. A water-carrier; sprinkling (rare); a distiller or seller of spirituous liquors; a drinker of spirituous liquors.—āb-kārī, s.f. The business of a distiller; distillery; liquor-shop, tavern; duty on the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors, excise.—āb-kash, s.m. A drawer of water:—āb-kashī, s.f. The act of drawing or carrying water.—āb-i-kaus̤ar, s.m. The water of the river Kausar, fabled to flow in Paradise with milk and nectar; nectar.—āb-guẕār, s.m. Passage of a river, ford, ferry; an expeditious messenger, courier; an express.—āb-guẕar, s.m. Water-course, channel for water, canal.—āb-i-gosht, s.m.=āb-josh, q.v.—āb-i-gohar, s.m. Lit. 'Water of pearls'; pure, limpid water.—āb-gīr, s.m. Receptacle for water, reservoir, pond, ditch; a weaver's brush.—āb-gīna, s.m. Lit. 'Possessed of lustre or clearness'; mirror, looking-glass; drinking-glass; bottle;—wine; diamond.—āb-i-manī, s.m. Sperma genitale (=manī).—āb-i-nuqra, s.m. Silver reduced to a liquid state; quicksilver.—āb-nai or āb-naë, s.f. The perpendicular tube of a huqqa on which the ćilam is fixed; (in Geography) a strait.—āb-noshī, s.m. Drinking water, (e.g. ćāh-i-āb-noshī).—āb o tāb = āb-tāb, q.v.—āb o dāna=āb-dāna, q.v.—āb o rang, s.m. Lit. 'Water and colour'; beauty; splendour; polish, gloss; joy, pleasure, bliss.—āb o namak, s.m. Lit. 'Water and salt'; sufficiency of water and salt (in a dish); seasoning, condiments; ingredients; savouriness, relish, flavour, taste;—maintenance, support. āb o hawā, s.f. Lit. 'Water and air' (of a place); air, climate.—āb-yār, s.m. Waterer, sprinkler:—āb-yārī, s.f. Watering, sprinkling;—a kind of thin linen cloth; a species of dove.—āb-i-yaḵẖnī, s.m. Water in which meat has been boiled down, broth; gravy (=āb-i-gosht).
عيب ʻaib inf. n. of عيب 'to be faulty, or unsound,' c.
A عيب ʻaib (inf. n. of عيب 'to be faulty, or unsound,' &c.), s.m. Faultiness, unsoundness, imperfection, something amiss, fault, defect, blemish, infirmity, vice, crime, sin; disgrace, infamy:—ʻaib-bīn, s.m. Fault-finder, &c. (=ʻaib-jo, and ʻaib-ćīn, qq.v.):—ʻaib-posh, s.m. A concealer of faults or defects, one who screens, or who connives at, the faults (of another);—an upper garment (which hides one of inferior material, &c.):—ʻaib-poshī, s.f. Concealment of a fault; overlooking or conniving at a fault;—ʻaib-poshī karnā (-se), To conceal, or to connive at, a fault:—ʻaib-jo, adj. & s.m.Censorious, captious, carping (at), hypercritical;—malicious, malevolent, malignant;—one who seeks for faults, a carper, caviller, hypercritic;—a detractor, calumniator, slanderer:—ʻaib-joʼī, s.f. Picking out faults, criticism, hypercriticism, censoriousness, cavilling;—detraction, slander:—ʻaib-ćīn, adj. & s.m. 'Culling errors or faults,' &c. (=ʻaib-jo, q.v.):—ʻaib-ćīnī, s.f.=ʻaib-joʼī, q.v.:—ʻaib-dār, adj. Having some fault or defect, unsound, faulty, defective, &c. (=ʻaibī):—ʻaib-go, s.m. Evil-speaker, detractor, calumniator, slanderer:—ʻaib-goʼī, s.f. Evil-speaking, aspersion, detraction, slander:—ʻaib-gīr, adj. & s.m. Seizing on faults,' &c. (=ʻaib-jo, q.v.):—ʻaib-gīrī, s.f. = ʻaib-joʼī, q.v.:—ʻaib lānā, v.n. A defect or vice to show itself (in a horse); to show vice, to be vicious (a horse):—ʻaib lagānā (-par, or -ko), To impute fault, &c. (to), to blame, to accuse (of); to defame, asperse, disparage, &c.;—to accuse of fornication or adultery:—ʻaib nikālnā (-meṅ), To pick holes (in), point out the defects or faults (of), to find fault (with):—be-ʻaib, adj. Without fault, or flaw, or blemish, &c.; sound, faultless.
