جب

جُبٌّ جب A well: (A, K:) or a well not cased with stone or the like: (S, A, Msb, K:) or a well containing much water: or a deep well: (A, K:) or of some other description: (A:) or a well in a good situation with respect to pasture: or one that people have found; not one that they have dug: (K:) or a well that is not deep: (Lth, TA:) or a well that is wide, or ample: (ElKilábeeyeh, TA:) or a well that is cut through rock, or smooth rock, or stones, or smooth stones, or hard and smooth and large stones: (Aboo- Habeeb, TA:) of the masc. gender; (Msb, TA;) [not fem. like بِئْرٌ;] or masc. and fem.: (Fr, Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَجْبَابٌ (Msb, K.) and [of mult.] جِبَابٌ and جِبَبَةٌ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- A well that is dug wherein a grape — vine is planted; like as one is dug for the shoot of a palm — tree: pl. جِبَابٌ. (ISh, TA.) ― -b3- The inside of a well, from its bottom to its top, whether cased with stone or the like or not. (Sh, TA.) ― -b4- The جُرْن of a well [app. meaning A hollowed stone, or stone basin, for water, placed at the mouth of a well: or, perhaps, a hollowed stone placed over the mouth; for many a well has such a stone, forming a kind of parapet]. (Zeyd Ibn-Kuthweh, TA.) -A2- [ A kind of leathern bag; ] a مَزَادَة of which one part is sewed to another, (K, TA,) wherein they used to prepare the beverage termed نَبِيذ, until, by use, it acquired strength for that purpose; mentioned in a trad., forbidding the use of it; and also called ↓ مَجْبُوبَةٌ. (TA.) -A3- The spathe, or envelope, of the spadix, or flowers, of the palmtree; also called جُفٌّ: the former word was unknown to A'Obeyd: both occur, accord. to different readings, in a trad., where it is said that a charm contrived to bewitch Mohammad was put into the جُبّ, or جُفّ, of a طَلْعَة: accord. to Sh, (TA,) it means the inside of a طَلْعَة [which latter here app. signifies, as it does in some other instances, the spathe, not the spadix, of a palmtree]; (K, TA;) in like manner as the inside of a well, from its bottom to its top, is called جُبّ: the pl. is جِبَابٌ. (TA.) Hence the well-known prov., جِبَابٌ فَلَا تَعَنَّ أَبْرًا [They are merely envelopes of the flowers of palm-trees; therefore weary not thyself to effect fecundation ]; applied to a man in whom is little or no good; meaning he is like the spathes of the palm-tree in which are no flowers; therefore weary not thyself by attempting to make him good; لَا تَعَنَّ being for لَا تَتَعَنَّ. (MF.)