Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أُسْبُوبَةٌ

Root: سب

Full Definition

أُسْبُوبَةٌ [like أُهْجُوَّةٌ, contr. of أُمْدُوحَةٌ,] A thing [meaning reviling speech] with which persons revile one another: pl. أَسَابِيبُ. Using it in this sense, one says, بَيْنَهُمْ أُسْبُوبَةٌ يَتَسَابُّونَ بِهَا [Between them is reviling speech] with which they revile one another.


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