جَبُوبٌ
Root: جب
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جَبُوبٌ
The earth, in general; sometimes written جَبُوبُ, as a proper name, without the article, and imperfectly decl., like شَعُوبُ: so called because it is cut, i. e. dug; or because it cuts, i. e. dissunders, the bodies of those buried in it: and hence
جَبَّانٌ and
جَبَّانَةٌ , signifying a burial-ground; from الجَبُّ and الجَبُوبُ; accord. to Kh; but others derive these two words from جبن: or rugged land: or hard or rugged land, composed of rock, not of soil: or earth, or dust: or the surface of the earth; whether plain or rugged or mountainous: a word without a pl.: also coarse, or big, lumps or clods of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud; plucked from the surface of the ground: or crumbled clods of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud: and with ة, a lump, or clod, of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud.
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