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خُبٌّ

Root: خب

Full Definition

خُبٌّ : see خَبٌّ.

def.2 See also خِبَّةٌ. Hence ثَوْبٌ أَخْبَابٌ: see, again, خِبَّةٌ.
2 أَخْبَابُ الفَحِثِ The حَوَايَا [or winding guts, or intestines into which the food passes from the stomach]: thus used in the pl. form, as though pl. of خُبٌّ.

def.3 Also The bark (لِحَآء) of a tree.

def.4 And Low, or depressed, land: pl. [of pauc.] أَخْبَابٌ and [of mult.] خُبُوبٌ.
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