Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خَبَبٌ

Root: خب

Full Definition

خَبَبٌ : see خِبٌّ.

def.2 Also A kind of run, with wide steps, but falling short of that termed عَنَقٌ; i. e. a quick pace: or a certain pace which is not quick: or i. q. رَمَلٌ [q. v.]: or a pace of a horse, and of a camel, in which he remores both his right legs together and both his left legs together; i. e. an amble: or in which a horse rests on his right and left fore legs alternately, (يُرَاوِحُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ, S, K, TA,) and in like manner on his kind legs: quickness.


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