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هلب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَهْلَبُ ذ Having much hair [of the kind called هُلْب]; very hairy: (K:) fem. هَلْبَاءُ. (CK.) A horse having much hair of the kind called هلب: (S:) a coarse- haired man: (TA:) a man having coarse hair upon the part where are the two veins called الأَخْدَعَانِ, and upon his body: (TA:) having much hair upon the head and body. (TA.) ― -b2- أَهْلَبُ A tail cut off. (K.) ― -b3- Also, [accord. to the CK, or, ] Having no hair upon it: and, contr., Having much hair: (K:) [in each sense, as seems to be implied in the K, an epithet applied to a tail: but, app., accord. to the TA, applied to a horse]. ― -b4- هَلْبَاءُ, fem., A beast of carriage (TA) having much hair. (K, TA.) ― -b5- هَلْبَاءُ The podex; syn. اـِسْتٌ: (K:) used as a subst.; originally an epithet. (TA.) ― -b6- اـِيَّاكَ وَأَهْلَبَ العَضْرَطِ Beware of him who has a hairy podex. Originally said by a woman to her son, who was boasting that he found no one whom he did not overcome, and who was afterwards thrown down by a man answering to this description. A proverb used in cautioning the self-conceited. (Meyd, TA.) ― -b7- أَرْضٌ هَلْبَاءُ (tropical:) Land abounding with plants, or herbage. (TA.) ― -b8- Also, [contr.,] (tropical:) Land of which the herbage has been eaten. (TA.) ― -b9- هُلْبَةٌ هَلْبَاءُ (in the CK, هَلْبَةٌ هُلْبَاءُ) A severe calamity. (K.) ― -b10- See هَلَّابٌ.

Derived headwords

أَهْلَبُ
  1. 1.
وَأَهْلَبَ العَضْرَطِ
أَرْضٌ هَلْبَاءُ
هُلْبَةٌ هَلْبَاءُ
هَلْبَةٌ هُلْبَاءُ