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’aib (inf. n. of عیب 'to be faulty, or unsound,' etc.), s.m. Faultiness, unsoundness, imperfection, something amiss, fault, defect, blemish, infirmity, vice, crime, sin; disgrace, infamy:—’aib-bīn, s.m. Fault-finder, etc. (=‘aib-jo, and ’aib-ćīn, qq.v.):—’aib-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, etc.):—’aib-poshī, s.f. Concealment of a fault; overlooking or conniving at a fault;—’aib-poshīkarnā(-se), To conceal, or to connive at, a fault:—’aib-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:—’aib-jo`o, s.f. Picking out faults, criticism, hypercriticism, censoriousness, cavilling;—detraction, slander:—’aib-ćīn, adj. & s.m. 'Culling errors or faults,' etc. (=‘aib-jo, q.v.):—’aib-ćīnī, s.f.=‘aib-jo`o, q.v.:—’aib-dār, adj. Having some fault or defect, unsound, faulty, defective, etc. (=‘aibī):—’aib-go, s.m. Evil-speaker, detractor, calumniator, slanderer:—’aib-go`o, s.f. Evil-speaking, aspersion, detraction, slander:—’aib-gīr, adj. & s.m. Seizing on faults,' etc. (=‘aib-jo, q.v.):—’aib-gīrī, s.f. = ’aib-jo`o, q.v.:—’aib lānā, v.n. A defect or vice to show itself (in a horse); to show vice, to be vicious (a horse):—’aib lagānā(-par, or -ko), To impute fault, etc. (to), to blame, to accuse (of); to defame, asperse, disparage, etc.;—to accuse of fornication or adultery:—’aib nikālnā(-meṅ), To pick holes (in), point out the defects or faults (of), to find fault (with):—be-’aib, adj. Without fault, or flaw, or blemish, etc.; sound, faultless.
Origin: Arabic