لِهْبٌ
Root: لهب
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لِهْبٌ
A gap, or space, between two mountains: or a cleft, or fissure, in a mountain: or a small gap, or ravine, such as is termed
شِعْبٌ, in a mountain: or a cleft in a mountain, afterwards widening like a road: a لِصْب and a شَقّ are smaller than a لهب; like a small road: or a face of a mountain, resembling a wall, that cannot be ascended: and similar to this is the لهب of the sky at the horizon: or, as some say, a subterranean excavation, or habitation: syn. سَرَبٌ فِى الأَرْضِ: pl. أَلْهَابٌ and لُهُوبٌ and لِهَابٌ and لِهَابَةٌ. See an ex. voce كَرَبَة.
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