خَرِبٌ
Root: خرب
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خَرِبٌ
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خَرَابٌ In a state of ruin, waste, uninhabited, depopulated, deserted, desolate, uncultivated, or in a state the contrary of flourishing; applied to a place, or a country, or a dwelling, or place of abode. You say دَارٌ خَرِبَةٌ
A house which its owner has reduced to ruin, or rendered uninhabited, &c. [In the phrase, هٰذَا جُحْرُ
ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ, meaning This is a deserted hole of a lizard of the kind called dabb, the word خرب is put in the gen. case عَلَى الجِوَارِ, i. e. because of its proximity to a preceding word in that case, not being so properly.]
2 [Hence,] هُوَ خَرِبُ العَظْمِ
3 See also خَرَابٌ.
def.2 And see خَرَبٌ.
2 [Hence,] هُوَ خَرِبُ العَظْمِ
3 See also خَرَابٌ.
def.2 And see خَرَبٌ.
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