أَهْلَبُ
Root: هلب
Full Definition
أَهْلَبُ
Having much hair [of the kind called هُلْب]; very hairy: fem. هَلْبَاءُ. A horse having much hair of the kind called
هلب: a coarse-haired man: a man having coarse hair upon the part where are the two veins called
الأَخْدَعَانِ, and upon his body: having much hair upon the head and body.
2 أَهْلَبُ A tail cut off.
3 Also, [accord. to the CK, or,] Having no hair upon it: and, contr., Having much hair: [in each sense, as seems to be implied in the K, an epithet applied to a tail: but, app., accord. to the TA, applied to a horse].
4 هَلْبَاءُ, fem., A beast of carriage having much hair.
5 هَلْبَاءُ The podex; syn. إِسْتٌ: used as a subst.; originally an epithet.
6 إِيَّاكَ وَأَهْلَبَ العَضْرَطِ Beware of him who has a hairy podex. Originally said by a woman to her son, who was boasting that he found no one whom he did not overcome, and who was afterwards thrown down by a man answering to this description. A proverb used in cautioning the self-conceited.
7 أَرْضٌ هَلْبَاءُ
8 Also, [contr.,]
9 هُلْبَةٌ هَلْبَاءُ (in the CK, هَلْبَةٌ هُلْبَاءُ) A severe calamity.
10 See هَلَّابٌ.
2 أَهْلَبُ A tail cut off.
3 Also, [accord. to the CK, or,] Having no hair upon it: and, contr., Having much hair: [in each sense, as seems to be implied in the K, an epithet applied to a tail: but, app., accord. to the TA, applied to a horse].
4 هَلْبَاءُ, fem., A beast of carriage having much hair.
5 هَلْبَاءُ The podex; syn. إِسْتٌ: used as a subst.; originally an epithet.
6 إِيَّاكَ وَأَهْلَبَ العَضْرَطِ Beware of him who has a hairy podex. Originally said by a woman to her son, who was boasting that he found no one whom he did not overcome, and who was afterwards thrown down by a man answering to this description. A proverb used in cautioning the self-conceited.
7 أَرْضٌ هَلْبَاءُ
8 Also, [contr.,]
9 هُلْبَةٌ هَلْبَاءُ (in the CK, هَلْبَةٌ هُلْبَاءُ) A severe calamity.
10 See هَلَّابٌ.
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