ترعابة doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• تِرْعَابَةٌ

  تِرْعَابَةٌ ذ , (S, A, K,) in the Mj, and in [some of] the copies of the S, , without ة, (TA,) Very fearful: (S:) or most exceedingly fearful (A, K, TA) of everything. (TA.) You say, هُوَ فِى السِّلْمِ تَلْعَابَةٌ وَفِى …

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