رَبْلٌ
Root: ربل
Full Definition
رَبْلٌ
Fat, and soft, or supple: [perhaps, in this sense, a contraction, by poetic license, of رَبِلٌ:] an epithet applied to a man.
def.2 Also A sort of trees which, when the season has become cool to them, and the summer has retired, break forth with green leaves, without rain: or certain sorts of trees that break forth [with leaves] in the end of the hot season, after the drying up, by reason of the coolness of the night, without rain: accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, a plant, or herbage, that scarcely, or never, grows but after the ground has dried up; as also رَيِّحَةٌ and خِلْفَةٌ and رِبَّةٌ: [and] leaves that break forth in the end of the hot season, after the drying up, by reason of the coolness of the night, without rain: pl. رُبُولٌ.
def.2 Also A sort of trees which, when the season has become cool to them, and the summer has retired, break forth with green leaves, without rain: or certain sorts of trees that break forth [with leaves] in the end of the hot season, after the drying up, by reason of the coolness of the night, without rain: accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, a plant, or herbage, that scarcely, or never, grows but after the ground has dried up; as also رَيِّحَةٌ and خِلْفَةٌ and رِبَّةٌ: [and] leaves that break forth in the end of the hot season, after the drying up, by reason of the coolness of the night, without rain: pl. رُبُولٌ.
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