عُبَبٌ

Root: عب

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عُبَبٌ The berries (حَبّ) of the كَاكَنَج or كَاكَنْج [thus differently written, from the Pers. كَاكْنَجْ], which, accord. to more than one of the leading authorities, is a tree, but is expl. by the author of the K [in its proper art.] as meaning a gum: [what is here meant by it is the physalis alkekengi, or common wintercherry: accord. to Forskål the name عُبَب is applied to the physalis somnifera: and also to the croton lobatum and croton villosum:] or it is applied by the physicians to the [plant itself called] كاكنج: or i. q. عِنَبُ الثَّعْلَبِ; which is said by Ibn-Habeeb to be an incorrect appellation, being correctly عُبَب, but AM denies that the former is incorrect: or i. q. رَآءٌ; i. e. the tree called رَآء: or a tree, or plant, (شَجَرَةٌ,) of the [kind called] أَغْلَاث: AHn says, on the authority of Aboo-Ziyád, it is of the أَغْلَاث, and is a tree, or plant, (شَجَرَةٌ,) resembling the حَرْمَل [peganum harmala of Linn.], except that it is taller, coming forth in the form of strings, and having pods (سِنَفَة) like those of the حَرْمَل, and sometimes the goats nibble from its leaves and from its pods when they dry up; it has also berries, intensely red, like beads of carnelian, smaller than the نَبِق [or fruit of the lote tree], and larger than the grape; and people seek out the leaves thereof that have not been rendered foraminous, which leaves are then bruised, and used beneficially as a dressing for maladies attended with pain: the people assert that the jinn, or genii, perforate them in envy of mankind.

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