ربك1 رَبَكَهُ, (S, K,) [like لَبَكَهُ,] aor. ـُ inf. n. رَبْكٌ, (S, TA,) He mixed, or mingled, it. (S, K.) b2: Also, (K,) aor.  as above, (TA,) and so the inf. n., (S, TA,) He made it good, or qualified it properly, namely, ثَرِيد [i. e. crumbled, or broken, bread, moistened with broth], (S, K, TA,) and mixed it with some other thing. (TA.) b3:  and رَبَكَ رَبِيكَةً, (K, TA,) [and رَبَكَ alone,] aor.  and inf. n. as above, (TA,) He made ربيكة [q. v.]. (K.) غَرْثَانُ فَارْبُكُوا لَهُ [He is hungry, therefore make ye ربيكة for him], (S, K,) or, as IDrd relates it, فِابْكُلُوا لَهُ [i. e., “therefore mix ye بَكَالَة (a certain food) for him ”], (TA,) is a prov.; (S, K;) the origin of which was this: (S:) a certain Arab of the desert, (S, K,) said in the O to be Ibn-Lisán-el-Hommarah, (TA,) came to his family, or wife, (S, K,) from a journey, (TA,) and was congratulated with the annunciation that a boy was born to him: whereupon he said, “ What shall I do with him? Shall I eat him or shall I drink him? ” so his wife said, غَرْثَانُ فَارْبُكُوا لَهُ: and when he was satiated, he said, “ How are the infant and his mother? ” (S, K:) the saying means, “he is hungry, therefore prepare ye for him food, that his hunger may be allayed, and then congratulate him with the annunciation of the birth of the child: ” and IDrd says that it is applied to the case of him whose anxiety has departed and who has become unoccupied so that he may attend to other things. (TA.) b4:  And رَبَكَ فُلَانًا, (Lth, K,) inf. n. as above, (Lth, TA,) He threw such a one into mire. (Lth, K.) A2:  رَبِكَ: see 8.8 ارتبك It was, or became, mixed, or mingled. (S, K.) b2:  He (a man) stuck fast in mire. (Lth, K, * TA.) And (tropical:)  He (an animal of the chase) struggled in the snare. (K, TA.) b3:  (tropical:)  He (a man, TA) was, or became, in the condition of one whose affair, or case, is confused to him; as also ↓ رَبِكَ, aor. ـَ (K, TA,) inf. n. رَبَكٌ. (TA.) And ارتبك فِى الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:)  He (a man) was, or became, entangled in the affair, and could hardly, or not at all, escape from it. (S.) And ارتبك فِى الهَلَكَاتِ (tropical:)  He fell into cases of perdition, and could hardly, or not at all, escape from them. (TA from a trad. of 'Alee.) b4:  ارتبك فِى كَلَامِهِ (tropical:)  He reiterated in his speech, by reason of an impediment, or inability to say what he would; syn. تَتَعْتَعَ. (K, TA.) 11 ارباكّ رَأْيُهُ عَلَيْهِ, (K, * TA,) inf. n. اِرْبِيكَاكٌ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:)  His opinion, or judgment, was, or became, confused to him. (Ibn-'Abbád, K, TA.) b2:  and ارباكّ عَنِ الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:)  He (a man) paused, or stopped, from the affair. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) رَبِكٌ (assumed tropical:)  A man (IDrd) weak in art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management of affairs: (IDrd, K:) a possessive epithet. (IDrd.) رُبَكٌ and ↓ رِبَكٌّ and ↓ رَبِيكٌ (assumed tropical:)  A man in a state of confusion in respect of his affair, or case: (K:) the last is a possessive epithet. (TA.) رِبَكُّ: see what next precedes.رَبُوكُ Dates kneaded with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, after which it is eaten. (Sgh, TA.) [See also رَبِيكَةُ.]رَبِيكٌ: see the next paragraph: b2:  and see also رُبَكٌ.رَبِيكَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ رَبِيكٌ (K) Dates with clarified butter and [the preparation of dried curd called] أَقِط, (S, K,) kneaded together, and then eaten; [like رَبُوكٌ, as explained above;] and, as ISk says, sometimes water is poured upon it, and it is drunk: or, he adds, accord. to Ghaneeyeh Umm-El-Homáris, أَقِط and dates and clarified butter, made soft, not like what is called حَيْس: (S:) or (accord. to Ed-Dubeyreeyeh, S) flour and أَقِط (S, K) ground, and then (S) mixed with clarified butter (S, K) and رُبّ [or inspissated juice]: (S:) or dates and أَقِط (K, TA) kneaded  without clarified butter: (TA:) or inspissated juice (رُبّ, K, TA) mixed (TA) with flour or سَوِيق [i. e. meal of parched barley]: (K, TA:) or a cooked compound of dates and wheat. (K.) b2:  Also the former word, A portion of fresh butter from which the milk will not separate, (Sgh, K,) so that it is mixed [therewith]. (Sgh.) b3:  And Water mixed with mud. (Sgh, K.) b4: [Hence,] رَمَاهُ بِالرَّبِيكَةِ i. e. (assumed tropical:)  [He accused him of] a thing that stuck fast upon him. (TA.)