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خَبِيبَةٌ

Root: خب

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خَبِيبَةٌ , and its pl. خَبَائِبُ: see خِبَّةٌ, in five places. It is also said to signify A fillet, or bandage.
2 Also A long strip, or slice, of flesh, or flesh-meat; and so خُبَّةٌ ; pl. of the former as above: or any compact and long portion of flesh: any such portion is also termed خَصِيلَةٌ: either in the arm or elsewhere: or a [portion such as is termed] خصيلة thereof, intermixed with [sinews, or tendons, such as are termed] عَقَب. And خَبَائِبُ المَتْنَيْنِ The flesh of the two corresponding portions extending along the two sides of the backbone. [Hence,] لَحْمُهُ خَبَائِبُ His flesh is dissundered, or cut in pieces.
3 See also خُبَّةٌ, in two places.
4 Also The wool of a ثَنِىّ [or sheep in its third year]; which is better than that termed عَقِيقَة, i. e. the wool of a جَذَع [or sheep in or before its second year], and cleaner, and more abundant: so accord. to most of the leading lexicologists; though said in the K to be a mistake of J, for جَنِيبَةٌ.


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