Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

كَلِبَةٌ

Root: كلب

Full Definition

كَلِبَةٌ Land which has not sufficient watering, and of which the plants, in consequence, become dry: or rugged land, and such as is termed قُفّ, in which there are neither trees nor herbage, and which is not a mountain.
2 أَرْضٌ كَلِبَةُ الشَّجَرِ Land upon which the rain called الرَّبِيع does not fall: or rugged, dry, land, upon which that rain does not fall, and which does not become soft.
3 See كَلْبَةٌ.


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