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هَبْهَبِىٌّ

Root: هب

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هَبْهَبِىٌّ Quick, or swift: as also هَبْهَبٌ and هَبْهَابٌ .
2 A light, or active, camel: fem. with ة.
3 هَبْهَبِىٌّ One who serves well; a good servant.
4 Any one who does well a small thing: accord. to some, specially, a cook, and a roaster of meat.
5 A butcher; syn. قَصَّابٌ, [from هَبْهَبَ “ he slaughtered ”].
6 هَبْهَبِىٌّ One who signs well to camels, to urge, or excite, them.
7 هَبهَبِىٌّ A pastor: or a pastor of sheep or goats: or the he-goat of a flock.
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