شِعْبٌ
Root: شعب
Full Definition
شِعْبٌ
A road: or a road in a mountain: primarily a road in a mountain and in valleys: afterwards applied to any road: [see also مَشْعَبٌ:] pl. شِعَابٌ. And A water-course, or place in which water flows, in [a low, or depressed, tract, such as is called] a
بَطْن
of land, having two elevated borders, and in width equal to the stature of a man lying down, and sometimes between the two faces, or acclivities, of two mountains. Or it signifies, or signifies also, A ravine, or gap, [or pass,] between two mountains.
2 Also [A reef of rocks in the sea: so in the present day: or] a زِرْبَة or زَرَبَة (accord. to different copies of the K in art. جهن [but neither of these two words do I find in their proper art. in any Lex.]) in the sea, such as is connected with the shore: if not connected with the shore, a bowshot distant, it is called جُهْنٌ. (K and TA in art. جهن.)
3 And A brand, or mark made with a hot iron, upon camels, peculiar to the Benoo-Minkar, in form resembling the [hooked stick called] مِحْجَن: or a brand upon the thigh, lengthwise, [consisting of] two lines meeting at the top and separated at the bottom: or a brand united [at the upper part and] at the lower part separated: or a brand upon the neck, like the مِحْجَن: in a marginal note in the copy of the L, it is said that شعب signifying a brand is with kesr to the ش and with fet-h [i. e. شِعْبٌ and شَعْبٌ ].
4 See also شَعْبٌ.
5 [And see the pl. شِعَابٌ below.]
2 Also [A reef of rocks in the sea: so in the present day: or] a زِرْبَة or زَرَبَة (accord. to different copies of the K in art. جهن [but neither of these two words do I find in their proper art. in any Lex.]) in the sea, such as is connected with the shore: if not connected with the shore, a bowshot distant, it is called جُهْنٌ. (K and TA in art. جهن.)
3 And A brand, or mark made with a hot iron, upon camels, peculiar to the Benoo-Minkar, in form resembling the [hooked stick called] مِحْجَن: or a brand upon the thigh, lengthwise, [consisting of] two lines meeting at the top and separated at the bottom: or a brand united [at the upper part and] at the lower part separated: or a brand upon the neck, like the مِحْجَن: in a marginal note in the copy of the L, it is said that شعب signifying a brand is with kesr to the ش and with fet-h [i. e. شِعْبٌ and شَعْبٌ ].
4 See also شَعْبٌ.
5 [And see the pl. شِعَابٌ below.]
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