conc▪ vn. of taʕaṣṣaba, vb. V, in the meaning of ʻto take sides, side (with s.o., against s.o./s.th.); to form a league, clique, group, team, gang, or coalition, gang up, team up; to cling obdurately or fanatically (to s.th./s.o.); to be fanatic, bigoted, be a fanatic, a zealot; to plot, conspire, collude, connive (against s.o.)’, extension of the more original sense of ʻto wind the turban round one’s head, put on the turban; hence also: to apply a bandage, bandage o.s.’; Dt-stem, self-reflexive/self-referential, either from the vb. I, ʕaṣaba ʻto wind, tie, bind, bandage; to fold (s.th.); to wrap (the head) with a brow band, sash, or turban’, or directly from a n. akin to it (e.g., ʕaṣabaẗ, ʕuṣbaẗ, ʕiṣāb, or ʕiṣābaẗ).
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