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Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to negative qualities, specifically meanness, baseness, and ignobility. It is also associated with terms for individuals of unknown or questionable parentage.

Derived headwords

الهبلعnoun

1.
mean personclassical
A person characterized by meanness, baseness, or ignobility.

هبلعother

1.
unknown parentageclassical
Describing someone whose parents are unknown, or at least one of them is unknown.

الهلابعnoun

1.
mean personclassical
A person characterized by meanness, baseness, or ignobility.

الهبالعnoun

1.
mean personclassical
A person characterized by meanness, baseness, or ignobility.

Parallel reading

وقيل: إن هاء هبلع زائدة، وليس بقوي.

And it is said: the 'ha' in 'habla'' is superfluous, and this is not strong.

وزيادة هائه وهاء هجرع نقل عن الأخفش، كما ذكره ابن خالويه.

And the superfluousness of its 'ha' and the 'ha' of 'hajra'' is narrated from Al-Akhfash, as mentioned by Ibn Khālawayh.

الهبلع، كدرهم: اللئيم.

Al-habla', like 'dirham': the ignoble one.

وعبد هبلع: لا يعرف أبواه، أو لا يعرف أحدهما، قاله ابن الأعرابي.

And 'abd habl'a': his parents are unknown, or one of them is unknown, said Ibn Al-A'rābī.

وقال الليث: الهلابع والهبالع: اللئيم، وأنشد:

And Al-Layth said: Al-halābi' and Al-habāli': the ignoble one, and he recited:

وقلت لا آتي زريقا طائعا عبد بني عائشة الهلابعا

And I said, 'I will not come to Zurayq willingly, the slave of the children of Aisha, the ignoble one.'

وسيأتي في هلبع.

And it will come in 'halba''.