Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خَبَّاطُ

Root: خبط

Full Definition

خَبَّاطُ One who [frequently] goes in the night without a lamp, and so becomes confounded and perplexed, and unable to see his right course, and errs from the way, and perchance may fall into a well: occurring in a trad. of ' Alee.


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