عبل

عَبَالٌ ذ The mountain-rose (وَرْد جَبَلِىّ [one of the appellations now applied to the eglantine, or sweet brier, more commonly called the نِسْرِين]): (S, Msb, K:) AHn says, and Arab of the desert informed me that the عَبَال is the rose of the mountain (وَرْدُ الجَبَلِ), of which is the white, and the red, and the yellow; (O, TA;) having a goodly hip (دَلِيك [thus correctly written in the O, but afterwards altered to دِلِّيك,]) in size and redness like the full-grown, unripe date, which, when it becomes ripe, is sweet, and delicious, like the fresh ripe date, and is sent from one to another as a present: (O:) [n. un. with ة:] the عَبَالَة, he says, has short, curved thorns, its rose is sweet-scented, and it grows so as to compose thickets, (O, TA,) and is depastured, (O,) and it becomes thick, (K,) and staves (O, K) thick and good, (O,) or thick and strong, (TA,) are cut from it: (O, K, TA:) the staff of Moses is said to have been from it: (K, TA:) or, as AHn says, the people assert that the staff of Moses was an عَبَالَة. (O.)