حبق

حَبَقٌ حبق [The mentha pulegium of Linn., or pennyroyal; so generally called in the present day, in Egypt and other countries; accord. to Golius, applied by the Moors and Egyptians to ocimum (i. e. basil ), which, he says, the Easterns call حبق النبطى; but he should have said الحَبَقُ النَّبَطِىُّ, which see below;] a certain plant of sweet odour, (K,) of sharp flavour, the leaves whereof are like those of the خِلَاف [q. v.] ; of which one kind grows in the plains, and another on the mountains; not depastured; (TA;) called in Persian الفُوتَنْجُ, (K, in the CK الفُوتَنَجُ,) or الفُوذَنْجُ, (S,) or Pُودِينَهْ: (TA:) AHn says, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, that it is a cause of diminishing the seminal fluid; that the horse rolls upon it and it diminishes his seminal fluid; and it is put into the pillow which is placed beneath the head of a man and it diminishes his seminal fluid: (TA:) it resembles the sweet-smelling plant called the نَمَّام [q. v., in the CK, erroneously, ثُمام]; (K, * TA;) and grows abundantly by water: (TA:) [a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة: and] pl. حِبَاقٌ. (IKh, TA.) ― -b2- حَبَقُ المَاآءِ and حَبَقُ التِّمْسَاحِ [ Mentha aquatica, or water-mint, ] الفُوتَنْجُ النَّهْرِىُّ; (K;) so called because it grows upon the sides of rivers, and because the crocodile eats of it much. (TA.) ― -b3- حَبَقُ القَنَا, or حَبَقُ الفِيلِ, [ Marjoram, sweet marjoram, ] المَرْزَنْجُوشُ. (K.) ― -b4- حَبَقُ الرَّاعِى [ Common artemisia, or mugwort, ] البِرِنْجَاسَفُ [or البَرَنْجَاسَفُ]. (K, TA: in the CK البِرِنْجَاسَفُ.) ― -b5- حَبَقُ البَقَرِ [ Chamomile ] البَابُونَجُ. (K.) ― -b6- حَبَقُ الشُّيُوخِ [ Marum; so called in the present day;] المَرْوُ; (K;) also called رَيْحَانُ الشُّيُوخِ. (TA.) ― -b7- الحَبَقُ الصَّعْتَرِىُّ and الحَبَقُ الكَرْمَانِىُّ [ Basilroyal ] الشَّاهِسْفَرَمُ [from the Persian شَاهْ سِفَرَمْ or شَاهْ سِPَرَمْ &c.]; (K, TA; in the CK الشّاهَسْفَرَمُ;) which is the Sultán of the رَيَاحِين; also called الرَّيْحَانُ المُطْلَقُ; and which is sown in houses. (TA.) ― -b8- الحَبَقُ القَرَنْفُلِىُّ [ Common clinopodium, or wild basil, ] الفَرَنْجَمُشْكَ; (K, TA; in the CK الفَرَنْجَمُشْكَ;) [a word of Persian origin,] meaning the musk of the Franks. (TA.) ― -b9- الحَبَقُ النَّبَطِىُّ, i. e. رَيْحَانُ الحَمَاحِمُ [which is Garden-basil: الحَمَاحِمُ is said in the K, art. حم, to be الحَبَقُ البُسْتَانِىُّ, with wide leaves; also called الحَبَقُ النَّبَطِىُّ]. (TA.) ― -b10- حَبَقُ تُرُنْجَانٍ [ Melissa, citrago, balm-mint, or balm-gentle, ] الباذرنجبويه. (TA.) ― -b11- الحَبَقُ الرَّيْحَانِىُّ What is eaten of المُقْلُ المَكِّىُّ [see art. مقل]. (K.)