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Arabic dictionary

Dictionary Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary (1889)

Entry عبث

عَبَثَ(n. ac. عَبْث) a. [acc. & Bi], Mixed with. عَبِثَ(n. ac. عَبَث) a. Played, trifled, toyed. b. [Bi], Sneered at, made sport of, bantered. تَعَبَّثَa. see (عَبِثَ) (b). عَبَثa. Play, sport; trifling; foolishness, foolery. عَاْبِثa. see 30 عَبِيْثَة (pl. عَبَاْئِثُ) a. Preparation of dried curds. عِبِّيْثa. Banterer. عَبَثًا a. Idly, uselessly. عَبِيْثَة النَّاس a. Rag-tag, bobtail, rabble.

Habib Anthony Salmoné was a British-educated scholar from Syria. The text for this dictionary was sourced from the Alpheos Project and originally provided by Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.