هدب

هُدْبَةٌ ذ (TA) and ↓ هُدَبَةٌ (Kr, K) A certain bird: (K:) or a small dust-coloured bird, resembling the هَامَة. accept in being smaller than this latter. (L.) El-Jáhidh says, The Arabs have not a name for that [kind of bird] which sees not in the night: it is that which is called شبكور [a Persian word, written شَبْكُورْ], more frequently than هدبة. (A.) -A2- N, un. of هُدْبٌ, q. v.