أَخْشَبُ
Root: خشب
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أَخْشَبُ
: see خَشِبٌ. Also A great mountain: or a rugged, or rough, and great mountain; and so
جَبَلٌ خَشِبٌ : or such as is not to be ascended: an elevated place, rugged, with rough stones: a tract of the kind termed
قُفّ, rugged and stony: pl. أَخَاشِبُ, because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it: and the fem. خَشْبَآءُ is also sometimes used in the same sense; or as syn. with غَيْضَةٌ [i. e. a thicket, &c.]; but the former meaning is better known: and this [likewise] is thought to be rather a subst. than an epithet, because of the pl., mentioned above: and
خُشْبَانٌ [also seems to be a pl. of أَخْشَبُ, or of خَشِبٌ; for it is said that it] signifies rugged, or rough, mountains, neither great nor small: and rugged ground. (TA in art. ذنب.) خَشْبَآءُ also signifies Hard land or ground; land, or ground, in which are stones and pebbles and earth or clay. And خَشَابٌ أَرْضٌ Hard land or ground, like خَشْبَآءُ, that flows with the least rain. And أَكَمَةٌ خَشْبَآءُ A hill of which the stones are scattered, but near together. And جَبْهَةٌ خَشْبَآءُ
A displeasing forehead; as also
: or a displeasing, rigid forehead; not even. And أَخْشَبُ
الجَبْهَةِ A man having a displeasing and rigid forehead.
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