عبث

`abas̤(inf. n. of عبث 'to play, sport'), s.m. Play, sport, trifling, frivolity, vanity, absurdity;—adj. & adv. Trifling, frivolous; vain, idle, absurd, nugatory, profitless, bootless;—in vain, uselessly, bootlessly, idly, absurdly:—`abas̤-kā, adj. (f. -kī), Trifling, frivolous, vain, absurd, etc.