Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَصْبَةٌ

Root: حصب

Full Definition

حَصْبَةٌ [A single throwing of pebbles].
2 [Hence, app., because immediately following the day of the last throwing of pebbles in the Valley of Minè,] لَيْلَةُ الحَصْبَةِ The night [next] after the days called أَيَّامُ التَّشْرِيقِ [which are the 11th and 12th and 13th of Dhu-l-Hijjeh].
3 See also حَصَبٌ.

def.2 Also, and حَصِبَةٌ , and حَصَبَةٌ , [Measles, or spotted fever;] a certain cutaneous eruption: by some, [contr. to general authority,] said to be small-pox.


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