جِرْبَةٌ
Root: جرب
Full Definition
جِرْبَةٌ
A place of seed-produce; as also
جَرِيبٌ : and a tract of land such as is termed
قَرَاح [i. e. a field, or land, sown or for sowing, without any building or trees in it; or land cleared for sowing and planting; or a separate piece of land in which palm-trees &c. grow; &c.]: metaphorically applied by Imra-el-Keys to [a grove of] palm-trees, where he says
2 A skin, or a mat, which is placed upon the brink of a well, lest the water should be scattered into the well [app. in falling from the bucket into the channel of the tank or cistern &c.]: or that is placed in a rivulet or streamlet جَدْوَل [which is applied in the present day to an artificial streamlet for irrigation, in the form of a trench or gutter,]) that the water may flow down over it [app. from the well to the tank or cistern &c.].
[Like a grove of palm-trees, or like the plantation of Yethrib]: or land prepared for sowing or planting: or a piece of land differing in condition from the land adjoining it, [i. e. a patch of land,] producing good plants or herbage: the pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] is جِرْبٌ , like as تِبْنٌ is of تِبْنَةٌ, and سِدْرٌ of سِدْرَةٌ: or جِرْبٌ signifies a قَرَاح; and its pl. is جِرَبَةٌ.كَجِرْبَةِ نَخْلٍ أَوْ كَجَنَّةِ يَثْرِبَ
2 A skin, or a mat, which is placed upon the brink of a well, lest the water should be scattered into the well [app. in falling from the bucket into the channel of the tank or cistern &c.]: or that is placed in a rivulet or streamlet جَدْوَل [which is applied in the present day to an artificial streamlet for irrigation, in the form of a trench or gutter,]) that the water may flow down over it [app. from the well to the tank or cistern &c.].
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