جوب

جَوْبَةٌ جوب جوبه جوبة A depressed place amid the houses of a people, into which the rain-water flows: (TA:) a pit, an excavation, or a hollow, (T, K, TA,) round and wide: (T, TA:) a gap, or an opening, in the clouds; and in mountains: and a clear space (↓ مَوْضِعٌ يَنْجَابُ) in a [stony tract such as is called ] حَرَّة: (S:) a place (AHn, K) that is clear, (AHn,) plain and smooth, (AHn, K,) such as is termed دَارَةٌ, with few trees, like a round غَائط [or wide and depressed tract ], (AHn,) in a tract that is hard, or hard and level, or level but rough, (AHn, K,) and such as is of large extent, not in sands nor in a mountain; so called because [for the most part] clear of trees: (AHn:) and an intervening space between houses; (K;) as also ↓ جَوْبٌ: (TA:) and a wide, or spacious, and smooth tract, between two lands: (K:) any wide gap, or opening: any gap, or opening, without buildings: (TA:) pl. جُوَبٌ (S, K) and جَوْبَاتٌ (TA.) ― -b2- The former of these pls. also signifies The pudenda of women; syn. فُرُوجٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- See also جَوْبٌ