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اهب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

اـِهَابٌ أهاب اـهاب اهاب هاب A skin, or hide, (A, Msb, K,) in an absolute sense, (A,) of a bull or cow, sheep or goat, or wild animal: (TA:) or a skin, or hide, not yet tanned: (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K:) and sometimes applied to the skin of a man: (Msb:) pl. (of pauc., TA) اآهِبَةٌ (IAar, K) and (of mult., TA) أُهُبٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, Msb, K,) with two dammehs, (Mgh, Msb,) and ↓ أهَبٌ, (S, Msb, K,) contr. to rule, (S, Msb,) or, accord. to Sb, (L,) this last is a quasi-pl. n.: (Mgh, L:) in one copy of the K, it is written اآهُب. (TA.) You say, جَاعُوا حَتَّى أَكَلُوا الأُهُبَ [ They hungered so that they ate the skins, or hides ]. (A.) And كَادَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ اـِهَابِهِ فِى عَدْوِهِ (assumed tropical:) [ He almost issued from his skin in his running ]. (A.) And حَقَنَ الدِّمَاآءَ فِى أُهُبِهَا (assumed tropical:) [ He spared the people's blood in their bodies ]. (TA, from a trad.)

Derived headwords

اـِهَابٌ
  1. 1.
جَاعُوا حَتَّى
أَكَلُوا الأُهُبَ
كَادَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ اـِهَابِهِ
فِى عَدْوِهِ
حَقَنَ الدِّمَاآءَ فِى أُهُبِهَا