لوب

لُوبَةٌ ذ and ↓ لَابَةٌ A stony tract, of which the stones are black and worn: syn. حَرَّةٌ: (S, K:) لُوبَةٌ and نُوبَةٌ signify a tract of land covered, or strewed, with black stones; and hence a negro is called لُوبِىٌّ and نُوبِىٌّ, [and negroes collectively are called لُوبَةٌ and نُوبَةٌ: the former, however, are evidently the Lybians, the latter, the Nubians:] (A 'Obeyd, S or, as in the TA, A 'Obeydeh:) or a لوبة is a very black, rugged, lengthened tract of ground, only at, or by, [so فِى seems here to signify] the projecting part of a mountain, or the lower and thinner, or finer, part of a sand-hill, or the foot (عرض) of a mountain: (Az:) or it may be a difficult ascent, or acclivity, up a mountain, rising to the greatest height: (ISh:) pl. of لوبة and لُوبٌ لابة and لَابٌ (S, K) and لَابَاتٌ: (S:) or لُوبٌ is pl. of لابة: [not, as implied above, of لوبة:] (Sb:) for a number from three to ten, the pl. used is لابات; and more than then are termed لاب and لوب: (TA:) [or these last two words are coll. gen. ns., of which لابة and لوبة are the ns. un.] ― -b2- مَا بَيْنَ لَابَتَيْهَا مِثْلُ فُلَانٍ [ Between its two tracts of black stones, there is not the like of such a one: i. e., within its (the city's) limits, there is not, &c.]: only said with reference to El-Medeeneh and El-Koofeh: (RA:) or said originally with reference to El-Medeeneh, and fig. with reference to any other city. (A.) ― -b3- بَعِيدُ مَا بَيْنَ اللَّابَتَيْنِ, said by 'Áïsheh, describing her father, (tropical:) Freehearted; of ample endowments, app. as to wealth, or possessions, and as to mind, or disposition: syn. وَاسِعُ الصَّدْرِ وَاسِعُ العَطَنِ. (TA.) ― -b4- لُوبَةٌ A people that is with another people, but of which advice or counsel is not asked [ by the latter ] with respect to anything, (K,) whether good or evil. (TA.)