هِنْدَبٌ

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هِنْدَبٌ and and and هِنْدِبَاءٌ and هِنْدِبًى; but the word which is used by most of the Arabs of the desert is the first: IKt only mentions the third form: also , or [هندبى and هندباء are coll. gen. ns., and] هِنَدَبَاةٌ is a n. un., as also هندباءة: A certain leguminous plant, well known, of the description termed أَحْرَار; [i. e., of a slender and soft nature, and eaten crude;) [lichorium, intybus and endivia; wild and garden-succory, and endive: also called in the present day شكُوريَة] a plant of middling temperament, (مُعْتَدِلَةٌ,) useful for the stomach and the liver and the spleen, when eaten: and for the sting of a scorpion, when applied externally, with its roots: he who cooks it errs more than he who washes it [and so uses it]. F mentions the names of this plant in aro. هندب, as though the ن were a radical letter, which noone asserts it to be: J [and others], in art. هدب.

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