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خب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

خَبَبٌ خبب : see خِبٌّ. -A2- Also A kind of run, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) with wide steps, but falling short of that termed عَنَقٌ; (Mgh, Msb;) i. e. a quick pace: (TA:) or a certain pace which is not quick: (Har p. 157:) or i. q. رَمَلٌ [q. v.]: or a pace of a horse, (K,) and of a camel, (TA,) in which he remores both his right legs together and both his left legs together; i. e. an amble: (K, TA:) or in which a horse rests on his right and left fore legs alternately, (يُرَاوِحُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ, S, K, TA,) and in like manner on his kind legs: (S, TA: [app., as thus explained in the S and TA, meaning the same as the explanation next before it:] and (accord. to some, TA) quickness. (K.)

Derived headwords

خَبَبٌ
  1. 1.
يُرَاوِحُ بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ