حَبِىٌّ
Root: حبو
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حَبِىٌّ
: see حَابٍ.
2 Also A collection of clouds; syn. سَحَابٌ; because it creeps along; or from حَبَا meaning عَرَضَ, wherefore it is also called عَارِضٌ: or applied to a collection of clouds as meaning that presents itself, or its breadth, or width, or its side, or extends sideways, heaped up, in the tracts of the horizon, like a mountain, before it covers the sky; as also حَبًا ; so called because near to the earth, as though creeping, or crawling, like a child; or from حَبَا; like as سَحَابٌ is from سَحَبَ, or from سَحَبَ أَهْدَابَهُ: or, as also حُبِىٌّ , a collection of clouds overpeering (يُشْرِفُ, in [some of] the copies of the K, erroneously, يشرق, TA) from the horizon upon the earth: or heaped up, one part above another.
2 Also A collection of clouds; syn. سَحَابٌ; because it creeps along; or from حَبَا meaning عَرَضَ, wherefore it is also called عَارِضٌ: or applied to a collection of clouds as meaning that presents itself, or its breadth, or width, or its side, or extends sideways, heaped up, in the tracts of the horizon, like a mountain, before it covers the sky; as also حَبًا ; so called because near to the earth, as though creeping, or crawling, like a child; or from حَبَا; like as سَحَابٌ is from سَحَبَ, or from سَحَبَ أَهْدَابَهُ: or, as also حُبِىٌّ , a collection of clouds overpeering (يُشْرِفُ, in [some of] the copies of the K, erroneously, يشرق, TA) from the horizon upon the earth: or heaped up, one part above another.
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