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هلب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

هَلَّابٌ ذ (K) and هَلَّابَةٌ (S, K) A cold wind, with rain. (S, ISd, K.) ― -b2- يَوْمٌ هَلَّابٌ A day in which is wind and rain: (S:) a day of rain attended by thunder and lightning and terrors, and destructive to dwellings. (IAar.) ― -b3- Also, A day of gentle, constant, innocuous rain. (IAar.) ― -b4- Also, A day of dry cold; or dry by reason of cold. (Az, in the T, art. حلب.) ― -b5- عَامٌ هَلَّابٌ, and ↓ أَهْلَبُ, A year of much rain. (K.) ― -b6- ↓ عام أَهْلَبُ (tropical:) A plentiful, or fruitful, year; a year of abundant herbage, or vegetation: like أَزَبُّ. (S.) ― -b7- هَلَّابٌ and ↓ مُهَلِّبٌ and ↓ هَلِيبٌ, (K,) or as in one copy of the K, that of Et-Tabláwee, the last is ↓ هُلَيْبٌ, (TA,) and this is the more correct reading, (MF,) [ Three ] very cold days, in Kánoon el-'Owwal [or January O. S. ]: or in the severe, or intense, cold of winter: (K:) or in the severe, or intense, cold of the month [ above mentioned ], in the latter part of it. (L.) -A2- هَلَّابٌ (tropical:) One who satirizes [ and reviles ] much: (ISh:) [ who carps much and severely at others with his tongue: see 1].

Derived headwords

هَلَّابٌ
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يَوْمٌ هَلَّابٌ
عَامٌ هَلَّابٌ