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هَلَّابٌ

Root: هلب

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هَلَّابٌ and هَلَّابَةٌ A cold wind, with rain.
2 يَوْمٌ هَلَّابٌ A day in which is wind and rain: a day of rain attended by thunder and lightning and terrors, and destructive to dwellings.
3 Also, A day of gentle, constant, innocuous rain.
4 Also, A day of dry cold; or dry by reason of cold. (Az, in the T, art. حلب.)
5 عَامٌ هَلَّابٌ, and أَهْلَبُ , A year of much rain.
6 عام أَهْلَبُ A plentiful, or fruitful, year; a year of abundant herbage, or vegetation: like أَزَبُّ.
7 هَلَّابٌ and مُهَلِّبٌ and هَلِيبٌ , or as in one copy of the K, that of Et-Tabláwee, the last is , and this is the more correct reading, [Three] very cold days, in Kánoon el-'Owwal [or January O. S.]: or in the severe, or intense, cold of winter: or in the severe, or intense, cold of the month [above mentioned], in the latter part of it.

def.2 هَلَّابٌ One who satirizes [and reviles] much: [who carps much and severely at others with his tongue: see 1].
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