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خُبَّةٌ

Root: خب

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خُبَّةٌ : see خِبَّةٌ and خَبِيبَةٌ.
2 Also A place where water collects and remains or stagnates, and around which grow herbs, or leguminous plants: a tract of land neither fruitful nor unfruitful, between two other tracts of land; pl. خُبَبٌ: a tract of land between that which abounds with herbage and that which is unproductive: a narrow tract of soft land abounding with herbage, not rugged nor plain, but inclining to be plain; but ADk disapproves of this explanation: or a tract producing herbage between two long and elevated tracts of sand; as also خَبِيبَةٌ : and, accord. to AA, also pasture, or herbage. Also, or مَخَبَّةٌ , and خَبِيبَةٌ , The bottom (بَطْن) of a valley.
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