زرب

زَرْبٌ ذ A place of entrance. (AA, S, A, K.) ― -b2- And hence, accord. to AA, (S,) the same word, (S, A, K,) and ↓ زِرْبٌ, (ISk, S, K,) as some pronounce it, (ISk, S,) and ↓ زَرِيبَةٌ, (S, A, K,) (assumed tropical:) The place of sheep or goats; (A, K, TA;) [i. e.] an enclosure of wood for sheep or goats: (S:) [said in the TA to be tropical; but not so accord. to the A:] pl. of the first (A, K) and second (K) زُرُوبٌ, (A, K,) and of the last زَرَائِبُ. (A.) ― -b3- And, as being likened thereto, (A,) زَرْبٌ and ↓ زَرِيبَةٌ signify also (tropical:) The lurking-place (قُتْرَة) of a hunter, or sportsman, (S, A, K,) or of an archer, or a shooter: (TA in explanation of the former word:) both signify a well [or pit ] which the hunter, or sportsman, digs for himself that he may lie in wait therein for the game. (TA.) ― -b4- See also the next paragraph.