خُرْبَةٌ
Root: خرب
Full Definition
2 Width of the hole, or perforation, of the ear; as also خَرْبٌ , or خُرْبٌ , and , this last being a subst. like أَفْكَلٌ.
3 The eye of a needle: [like خُرْتٌ and خُرْتَةٌ:] and the foramen of the anus: as also خُرْبٌ and خَرْبٌ and خَرَّابَةٌ and خُرَّابَةٌ and خُرَابَةٌ ; in both of these senses, though this is not clearly shown in the K: and likewise, of the vagina; the dual of خُرْبَةٌ occurring in a trad., as some relate it, applied to the foramen of the anus and that of the vagina together: and the last, خُرَابَةٌ , also signifies any perforation like the eye of a needle.
4 الخُرْبَةُ and and and The hole [or socket] of the hip, where the head of the thigh-bone is inserted; as also خُرْبَةُ الوَرِكِ and الورك and الورك and الورك [or, probably, ] and الورك and الورك: and the pl., أَخْرَابٌ, also signifies the lower extremities of the shoulder-blades.
5 And الخُرْبَةُ, or خُرْبَةُ المَزَادَة, and , and sometimes without tesh-deed, [and perhaps also, (see خُبْنٌ,)] The loop of the [leathern water-bag called] مَزَادَة; because of its round form: every مزادة having two loops [whereby it is suspended upon either side of the camel], each of which is thus called; and two kidney-shaped pieces of leather (كُلْيَتَانِ) [at the two upper corners]; and the two loops are sewed to these. (TA. [See also خُرْتَةٌ.])
def.2 A vice, or fault; as also خَرَبَةٌ : and corruption, or unsoundness, in religion; as also خَرَبَةٌ and خَرْبَةٌ [like حَرْبَةٌ] and خُرْبٌ and خَرْبٌ and خَرَبٌ : and a quality inducing suspicion, or evil opinion: [a meaning app. belonging to all of the foregoing words:] pl., of the first, خُرُبَاتٌ; and of the second, خَرَبَاتٌ: also, the first (i. e. خُرْبَةٌ), a crime: a bad, an evil, or a foul, word or saying: and a trial, or an affliction. You say, مَا فِيهِ خُرْبَةٌ There is not in him a vice, or fault. And مَا رَأَيْنَا مِنْ فُلَانٍ خُرْبَةً and , or , We have not seen in such a one unsoundness of religion nor anything disgraceful.
2 فَارٌّ بِخُرْبَةٍ, occurring in a trad., means One who flees with a thing desiring to appropriate it to himself and to take possession of it unlawfully.
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