بَابَةٌ

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بَابَةٌ A mode, or manner; syn. وَجْهٌ: pl. بَابَاتٌ. [See also بَابٌ, which has a similar, and perhaps the same, signification.] Hence, هٰذَا مِنْ بَابَتِى means This is of the mode, or manner, that I desire; this is suitable to me: and هٰذَا شَىْءٌ مِنْ بَابَتِكَ, or هٰذَا بَابَتُكَ, this is a thing suitable to thee: and هٰذَا بَابَتُهُ this is suitable to him. Accord. to most of the critics, it is tropical. You say also, فُلَانٌ أَهْوَنُ بَابَاتِهِ الكَذِبُ Such a one, the lightest of the kinds (أَنْوَاع) of his wickedness is lying.
2 A habit: a property; a quality; nature; natural disposition: or a practice; or an action: syn. خَصْلَةٌ. [Hence, perhaps, the last of the exs. cited above from the A.]
3 A condition; syn. شَرْطٌ: as in the saying, هذَا بَابَةُ هٰذَا [This is the condition of this].
4 بَابَاتُ الكِتَابِ The lines of the book or writing: or it may mean its [i. e. chapters, or sections of chapters]: this has no sing.: [ISd says,] I have not heard any sing. of it.
5 See also بَابٌ; last signification.

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