سب

سَبْسَبٌ ذ A desert; or a desert in which is no water, or in which is neither water nor herbage; syn. مَفَازَةٌ (S, K) and قَفْرٌ: (TA:) or a tract of land level and far-extending: (M, K:) or a [ desert such as is termed ] قَفْر that is far-extending, whether level or not level, rugged or not rugged, without water and without any one to cheer by his presence: (ISh, TA:) or a land affected with drought, barrenness, or dearth: (Aboo-Kheyreh, TA:) and بَسْبَسٌ signifies the same: (TA:) pl. سَبَاسِبُ: (M, TA:) A 'Obeyd explains سَبَاسِبُ and بَسَابِسُ as syn. with قِفَارٌ, [pl. of قَفْرٌ]. (TA.) One says also بَلَدٌ سَبْسَبٌ, (S, (K,) [using the latter word as an epithet;] and بَلَدٌ سَبَاسِبُ, (Lh, S, M, K,) thus using the pl. as though he termed every part of the بَلَد a سَبْسَب; (Lh, M;) or the pl. is added to give intensiveness to the meaning: (IAth, TA voce بَلْقَعٌ, q. v.:) but some say ↓ سُبَاسِبٌ, with damm; and this is more common, because it is a sing. epithet. (MF, TA.) -A2- Also i. q. سَاسَبٌ [or سَيْسَبٌ (q. v. in art. سسب), if not a mistranscription for this last], i. e. A kind of tree, from which arrows, or, as in the book of AHn, camels' saddles (رِحَال), are made: Ru-beh says, [accord. to one reading, another being given in art. سسب, q. v.,] ↓ رَاحَتْ وَرَاحَ كَعَصَا السَّبْسَابِ [ She went, and he went, like the rod of the sebsáb, meaning, the arrow]; in which the last word is a dial. var. of السَّبْسَب, or the ا is inserted by poetic license. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, perhaps,] السَّبَاسِبُ, (M, K,) or يَوْمُ السَّبَاسِبِ, (S, TA,) A certain festival of the Christians; (S, * TA;) i. q. أَيَّامُ, السَّعَانِينِ, (Abu-l-'Alà, M, K,) or يَوْمُ السَّعَانِينِ [ Palm-Sunday; now commonly called أَحَدٌ الشَّعَانِين or عِيدُ الشَّعَانِين, with ش]. (TA.)