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هَلُوبٌ

Root: هلب

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هَلُوبٌ A woman who draws near to her husband, or ingratiates herself with him; syn. مُتَقَرِّبَةٌ مِنْ زَوْجِهَا; and is loving, or affectionate, to him; and distant with respect to others.
2 Also, contr., A woman who is distant, or shy, with respect to her husband, or who alienates herself from him, or avoids or shuns him, and draws near to, or ingratiates herself with, her special friend.
3 From هَلَبَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ “ he carped at him severely with his tongue; ” because a wife carps either at her husband or at her friend: or, accord. to IAar, in the former sense, from يَوْمٌ هَلَّابٌ “ a day of gentle, constant, innocuous rain; ” and in the latter sense from the same phrase as signifying “ a day of rain attended by thunder and lightning and terrors, and destructive to dwellings. ”
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