ضب

ضَبَابٌ ذ [ Mist; i. e.] moisture (نَدًى), (A, Mgh, Msb, K,) like clouds, (A, K,) or like dust, covering the earth in the early mornings: (Mgh, Msb, TA:) or thin clouds, like smoke: (A, K:) or thin clouds; so called because they cover the horizon: n. un. with ة: (TA:) or pl. of ضَبَابَةٌ, [but it is rather a coll. gen. n., and ضَبَابَةٌ is its n. of un.,] (S, Mgh, O,) and this latter signifies a cloud that covers the earth, resembling smoke: (S, O:) or a vapour rising from the earth in a rainy, or cloudy, day, like a canopy, preventing vision by its darkness. (TA.)