خب

خُبَّةٌ خب خبه خبة : see خِبَّةٌ and خَبِيبَةٌ. ― -b2- Also A place where water collects and remains or stagnates, (AA, K, TA,) and around which grow herbs, or leguminous plants: (TA:) a tract of land neither fruitful nor unfruitful, between two other tracts of land; pl. خُبَبٌ: (AHn:) a tract of land between that which abounds with herbage and that which is unproductive: (Ru-beh:) a narrow tract of soft land abounding with herbage, not rugged nor plain, but inclining to be plain; (ISh;) but ADk disapproves of this explanation: (TA:) or a tract producing herbage between two long and elevated tracts of sand; as also ↓ خَبِيبَةٌ: (Ibn-Nujeym:) and, accord. to AA, also pasture, or herbage. (TA.) Also, or ↓ مَخَبَّةٌ, (accord. to different copies of the K, or both, TA,) and ↓ خَبِيبَةٌ, The bottom (بَطْن) of a valley. (K.)