Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَلْبٌ

Root: الب

Full Definition

أَلْبٌ and إِلْبٌ Persons, or people, collected together; an assembly; a collected body: or a collection of many people: and أَلْبٌ أَلُوبٌ a great assembly or congregation.
2 Also A people, or company of men, combining in hostility against a man. You say, هُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَلْبٌ وَاحِدٌ, and إِلْبٌ , They are [one body of men] assembled against him with injustice and enmity or hostility: like وَعْلٌ وَاحِدٌ and صَدْعٌ وَاحِدٌ and ضِلَعٌ وَاحِدٌ.


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