حبش

الحَبَشُ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K,) a coll. gen. n., (Msb,) and ↓ الحُبْشُ, (A, MF,) or this is a pl., and the former is also said to be an anomalous pl., (TA,) and ↓ الحَبَشَةُ, (S, A, Msb, K,) also said to be an anomalous pl., (TA,) and wrong with respect to rule, (T, M,) having no sing. of the measure فَاعِلٌ, (M,) for they did not use حَابِشٌ as a sing. thereof, like فَاسِقٌ as sing. of فَسَقَةٌ, (T,) but الحَبَشَةُ became used as a dial. var., (T, Msb,) commonly obtaining, for الحَبَشُ, (Msb,) and is allowable in poetry in cases of necessity, (T,) and ↓ الأَحْبُشُ, (IDrd, K,) also used as syn. with الحَبَشُ, (IDrd,) or it is pl. of الحُبْشُ, with damm, not a sing. as it seems to be from the mention of it in the K, (MF,) and ↓ الأُحْبُوشُ, (A, TA,) and الحُبْشَانُ, (A,) which is a pl. (IDrd, S, K) of الحَبَشُ, (IDrd,) like as حُمْلَانٌ is pl. of حَمَلٌ, (S,) and الحُبُوشُ, (A,) [also a pl.,] and ↓ الحَبِيشُ, which is also a pl., (TA,) [or rather a quasipl. n.,] and الأَحَابِشُ, which is likewise a pl., (K,) app. of أَحْبُشٌ, (TA,) and الأَحَابِيشُ, (A,) [which is pl. of أُحْبُوشٌ,] A certain race of the blacks; (S, A, Msb, K, &c.;) [namely, the Abyssinians; who, however, are not properly called “ blacks: ”] one of whom is called حَبَشِىٌّ. (A, Mgh, Msb.) The dim. of حَبَشٌ is حُبَيْشٌ. (Msb.)