خرعب

خَرْعَبٌ خرعب (K) and ↓ خَرْعَبَةٌ (TA) and ↓ خُرْعُوبٌ and ↓ خُرْعُوبَةٌ (K) A branch, or twig, until a year old; or of a year's growth: or fresh, or juicy, and tall: (K, TA:) or (TA) soft, or tender, and of recent growth, (K, TA,) that has not yet become hard: (TA:) or ↓ خُرْعُوبٌ [is an epithet, and] signifies a bending branch or twig. (S.) [Compare خَرِعٌ, and خِرْوَعٌ, and خَرِيعٌ.] ― -b2- Also, [i. e. all the words above,] (K,) or ↓ خَرْعَبَةٌ [only], (TA,) A young woman of goodly make, soft, or tender: (K:) or a young woman large in body, and of goodly make: or soft, or tender, and pliant: (TA:) or fair, tender, or pliant, fat, large in body, fleshy, with small, or delicate, bones: (K:) or fair: (TA:) or soft, or pliant, in the waist, and tall: (As, TA:) or large in the body, and fleshy: (TA:) or ↓ خُرْعُوبَةٌ and ↓ خَرْعَبَةٌ signify a girl slender in the bones, (S, TA,) having much flesh, (TA,) and soft, or tender: (S, TA:) or a young woman of goodly stature, resembling a twig (خُرْعُوبَةِ) of a year's growth. (Lth, TA.) And خَرْعَبٌ signifies A soft, or tender, body. (TA.) And A tall and fleshy man. (K.)