حدب

حَدَبٌ حدب (tropical:) High, or elevated, ground; so in the Kur xxi. 96; (S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ حَدَبَةٌ; and so حَدَبٌ مِنَ الأَرْضِ: (A:) or rugged and high ground: (T, K:) pl. حِدَابٌ (S) [and app., accord. to the TA, أَحْدَابٌ also, a pl. of pauc.]. And حَدَبُ الرَّمْلِ (tropical:) Sand brought by the wind, [or blown together, ] and elevated. (A, TA.) And hence, as being likened to such sand, (IAar, TA,) حَدَبُ البُهْمَى (tropical:) What is scattered, and heaped up, of [ the species of barley-grass called ] بهمى. (IAar, K, TA.) And حَدَبُ المَاآءِ (assumed tropical:) The elevated waves of water: (T, TA:) or the rolling over of water, volume over volume: (K, TA:) or the rolling of water in waves. (TA.) And حَدَبُ الغَدِيرِ (assumed tropical:) The motion and waves of the pool of water left by a torrent. (IAar, TA.) And حَدَبُ السَّيْل (tropical:) The rise, or swell, and abundance, of the torrent. (A, TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A slope in a declivity; expl. by حَدُورٌ فِى صَبَبٍ, as in the correct copies of the K, and in the L; in some copies of the K حدوب; (TA;) [in the CK حُدُورٌ;] as the حَدَب of waves (in some copies of the K, of the wind, TA, [an evident mistranscription, الريح for الموج,]) and of sand. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A mark left upon the skin; (As, K;) such as the [ weal or] swelling and thickness produced by beating. (As, TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) The intenseness of the cold of winter. (A, K.) -A2- A certain plant: or the [ plant called ] نَصِىّ. (K.)