غوص

1 غَاصَ فِى المَآءِ, aor. ـُ (S, A, Msb,) inf. n. غَوْصٌ (S, A, K) and مَغَاصٌ and غِيَاصَةٌ and غِيَاصٌ, (K,) He dived in, or descended beneath, the water; (S, A, K;) or entered into the water; (TA;) to fetch out what was in it. (Msb [in my copy of which, the particle فى is omitted, app. by a slip of the transcriber].) b2: غِيَاصَةٌ [also] signifies The diving in the sea for pearls; (S;) and غَوْصٌ signifies [the same: or both signify] the fetching out pearls from beneath the water. (Mgh.) b3: [Hence,] you say also, غَاصَ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, (K,) inf. n. غَوْصٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) [He dived for the thing, or affair, so as to elicit it; or] he knew the thing, or affair. (K, TA.) And غَاصَ عَلَى المَعَانِى حَتَّى

بَلَغَ أَقْصَاهَا وَاسْتَخْرَجَ مَا بَعُدَ مِنْهَا وَدَقَّ فَهْمُهُ (tropical:) [He dived for the meanings so that he reached the uttermost of them, and elicited what was remote of them, and the understanding whereof was subtile]. (Msb.) And فُلَانٌ يَغُوصُ عَلَى حَقَائِقِ العِلْمِ (tropical:) [Such a one dives for the verities of science]. (A, TA.) And مَا أَحْسَنَ غَوْصَهُ عَلَيْهَا (tropical:) [How good is his diving for them!]. (A, TA.) And مَا غَاصَ غَوْصَةً إِلَّا أَخْرَجَ دُرَّةً (tropical:) [He did not dive a single diving but he fetched out what was like a pearl, or a large pearl]. (A, TA.) b4: You say also, غَاصَ عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, aor. ـُ inf. n. غَوْصٌ, He pounced, or came suddenly, or at unawares, upon the thing. (Msb.) 2 غوّصهُ فِى المَآءِ He made him to dive in, or descend beneath, the water; (A;) he immersed, immerged, dipped, plunged, or sunk, him therein. (TA.) غَوْصٌ [originally an inf. n.]: see مَغَاصٌ, in two places.

غَوْصَةٌ [A single diving in, or descent beneath, water: see 1, last sentence but one]. (A.) غَوَّاصٌ: see the next paragraph, in four places.

غَائِصٌ One who dives in, or descends beneath, or enters into, water; as also ↓ غَوَّاصٌ [which, however, has an intensive signification, or implies the habit of so doing]: (TA:) and ↓ the latter, (S, A, K,) or both, (Az, TA,) particularly one who dives in the sea for pearls, (S, A, K,) or for pearl-shells, and fetches them out: (Az, TA:) pl. غُوَّاصٌ, (A, TA,) of the former, (TA,) and غَاصَةٌ, (A, TA,) [also of the former,] and [of the latter]

غَوَّاصُونَ. (TA.) b2: [Hence the saying,] هَوَ مِنْ صَاغَةِ الفِقَرِ وَغَاصَةِ الدُّرَرِ (tropical:) [He is of the moulders of فِقَر, lit., as thus used, ornaments fashioned in the form of the vertebræ of the back, but here meaning choice phrases or sentences; and of the divers for, and producers of, (expressions like) pearls, or large pearls]. (A, TA.) b3: [Hence likewise,] ↓ غَوَّاصٌ also signifies (tropical:) One who exercises art, craft, cunning, or skill, in ordering the means of obtaining subsistence. (TA.) b4: And غَائِصٌ also signifies One who pounces, or comes suddenly, or at unawares, upon a thing; (JK, S, Msb;) as also, (JK, Msb,) but in an intensive sense, (Msb,) ↓ غَوَّاصٌ: (JK, Msb:) pl. of the former غَاصَةٌ. (Msb.) مَغَاصٌ A place where one dives in, or descends beneath, water; (Lth, A, K;) as also ↓ غَوْصٌ: (Lth, Mgh:) or ↓ the latter signifies particularly a place [where one dives and] whence pearls are fetched out. (JK, Mgh. *) You say also, هٰذَا مَغَاصُ اللُّؤْلُؤِ This is the diving-place for pearls. (A.) b2: Also The upper part of the سَاق [or shank, &c.]. (JK, Sgh, K.)

زب

1 زَبَّ, (K,) aor. ـِ accord. to the K, but correctly يَزَبُّ, the verb being like فَرِحَ, [so that the sec. Pers\. is زَبِبْتَ,] and the inf. n. being زَبَبٌ, (MF, TA,) [He, or it, was, or became, downy: and he (a man) had abundant and long hair; was hairy: or had abundance of hair in the ears and eyebrows: or had abundance of hair on the fore arms and the eyebrows and eyes: and he (a camel) had abundance of hair on the face and under the lower jaw: or in the ears and on the eyes:] the verb of زَبَبٌ expl. below. (K, TA.) b2: Hence, (TA,) زَبَّتِ الشَّمْسُ, (K,) inf. n. زَبٌّ [perhaps a mistranscription for زَبَبٌ], (TA,) (tropical:) The sun was near to setting; (K, TA;) because it becomes concealed as the colour of a limb does by the hair upon it; (TA;) as also ↓ ازبّت, (S, K,) and ↓ زبّبت. (K.) A2: زَبَّ, aor. ـُ (K,) inf. n. زَبٌّ, (TA,) He filled a water-skin (K, TA) to its head. (TA.) b2: Also, and ↓ ازدبّ, like زَأَبَ [and ازدأب], He carried, or took up and carried, a load, or burden. (TA.) 2 زبّب, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَزْبِيبٌ, (S,) He converted grapes into زَبِيب [or raisins]; (S, Mgh, Msb;) he dried grapes, (K,) and likewise figs; (AHn, K;) as also ↓ ازبّ. (K.) A2: Also, (K,) and زبّب شِدْقَاهُ, (S, K,) Spittle collected in the two sides of his mouth: (K:) or froth, or foam, came forth upon the two sides of his mouth: (S:) and زبّب فَمُهُ (K, TA) [signifies the same; or] dry spittle appeared at the angles of his lips, next the tongue: (TA:) and ↓ تزبّب (K) and شِدْقَاهُ ↓ تزبّب (TA) froth, or foam, appeared in the two sides of his mouth. (K.) You say, تَكَلَّمَ فُلَانٌ حَتَّى زبّب شِدْقَاهُ Such a one spoke, or talked, until froth, or foam, came forth upon the two sides of his mouth. (S.) [And in like manner you say, زَبَّدَ شِدْقُهُ and تَزَبَّدَ شِدْقُهُ: and تَزَبَّدَ alone.]

A3: See also 1.4 أَزْبَ3َ see 1: A2: and see also 2.5 تزبّب العِنَبُ The grapes became converted into زَبِيب [or raisins]. (Mgh, Msb.) b2: [Hence,] تَزَبَّبَ قَبْلَ أَنْ يَتَحَصْرَمَ (tropical:) [expl. in art. حصرم]. (TA.) A2: See also 2, in two places. b2: [Hence,] تزبّب also signifies He (a man) became filled with rage, or wrath. (TA.) 8 إِزْتَبَ3َ see 1, last sentence.

A2: ازدبّت القِرْبَةُ The water-skin became full (K, TA) to its head. (TA.) R. Q. 1 زَبْزَبَ He was angry: or he was put to flight in war. (K.) زُبٌّ The penis; the male organ of generation; (S, A, Msb, K;) in the dial. of El-Yemen: i. e. absolutely: (TA:) or peculiarly of a human being: (IDrd, A, K:) or of a boy, in the dial. of El-Yemen: (T, TA:) or of a gazelle, or an antelope: (Eth-Tha'álibee, TA:) said by IDrd to be a genuine Arabic word: (TA:) dim. ↓ زُبَيْبٌ; and sometimes ↓ زُبَيْبَةٌ, with the fem. ة, as being a piece (قِطْعَةٌ) of the body: (Msb:) pl. [of pauc.]

أَزْبَابٌ (Msb, K) and أَزُبٌّ and [of mult.] زَبَبَةٌ, (K,) the last extr. [with respect to rule]. (TA.) b2: And The beard; (S, K;) in the dial. of ElYemen: (S:) or the fore part thereof; (K;) in the dial. of some of the people of El-Yemen. (TA.) b3: And The nose; (Sh, K;) as some say; in the dial. of El-Yemen. (Sh, TA.) b4: and A sort of dates of El-Basrah; mentioned by Meyd; as also زُبُّ رُبَّاحٍ or رُبَاحٍ. (TA.) b5: زُبُّ القَاضِى, which is one of the faults of a thing that is sold, is explained by the lawyers as [The condition of] that whereof the fruit quickly falls (MF.) A2: Also pl. of أَزَبُّ. (A.) زَبَبٌ Down; syn. زَغَبٌ: (A, K:) and, in a man, (K, A, *) abundance of hair, (S, A, K,) and length thereof: (S:) or, in a man, abundance of hair in the ears and eyebrows: and abundance of hair on the fore arms and the eyebrows and eyes: (TA:) and in a camel, abundance of hair on the face and under the lower jaw: (K:) or in the ears and on the eyes. (TA.) زَبَابٌ A species of rat which is large and deaf: or which has red hair: (K:) or which has red and beautiful hair: (TA:) or which is without hair: (K:) or a species of field-rat, of large size: one thereof is called زَبَابَةٌ: (TA:) or this signifies a deaf rat: (S:) or a deaf rat of the desert: (A:) and its pl. is زَبَابٌ, [or rather this is a coll. gen. n. of which it is the n. un.,] (S, TA,) and [its pl. is] زَبَابَاتٌ. (TA.) The Arabs make it the subject of a prov.: (S:) they say, أَسْرَقُ مِنْ زَبابَةِ [More thievish than a zebábeh]. (S, A, TA. [Another reading is mentioned in the TA in art. زنب; namely, رَنَابَة; which is there said, on the authority of Ibn-'Abd-Rabbih in the عِقْد, to signify a rat, or mouse.]) And they also liken to it an ignorant person. (S, TA.) It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, أَنَا وَاللّٰهِ إِذًا مِثْلُ الَّتِى أُحِيطَ بِهَا فَقِيلَ زَباَبْ زَبَابْ حَتَّى دَخَلَتْ جُحْرَهَا ثُمَّ احْتُفِرَ عَنْهَا فَاجْتُرَّ بِرِجْلِهَا فَذُبِحَتْ, i. e. [I, by Allah, in that case, were] like that animal, namely, the she-hyena, which has been surrounded, and to which it has been said Zebáb! Zebáb! [until it has entered its hole, and then the earth has been dug away from it, and it has been dragged by its hind leg, and slaughtered:] meaning, I will not be like the she-hyena that is decoyed to its death: for that animal probably eats the زباب, as it does the field-rat. (TA.) A2: Also i. q. سَاعٍ [A messenger, or a messenger on a beast of the post: and a collector of the poor-rates: &c.]. (CK: but omitted in the TA, and in my MS. copy of the K.) زَبِيبٌ Dried grapes; or raisins: and also dried figs: (K:) said by AHn to have been used in this latter sense by an Arab of the desert: (TA:) a coll. gen. n.; masc. and fem.: (Msb:) n. un. with ة. (S, Msb.) A2: Also The froth, or foam, of water: (K, TA:) and of a camel's mouth: (L in art. لقح:) and the poison in the mouth of a serpent. (K.) زَبِيبَةٌ [is the n. un., and] signifies (tropical:) A collection of froth, or foam, in the mouth of a person speaking, or talking, much: (A, * K:) [or the dual] زَبِيبَتَانِ signifies two collections of froth, or foam, (S,) or of spittle, (K,) or of dry spittle, (TA,) in the sides of the mouth, (S, K,) where the lips meet, next the tongue. (TA.) You say, غَضِبَ فَثَارَ لَهُ زَبِيبَتَانِ (tropical:) He was angry, and there appeared two collections of froth, or foam, in the two sides of his mouth. (A, TA.) زَبِيبَتَانِ, in a serpent, signifies (assumed tropical:) Two black small spots above the eyes: (S, K, and Mgh in art. شجع:) or two small spots next the mouth thereof: (TA:) or two collections of froth, or foam, in the two sides of the mouth thereof (TA, and Mgh ubi suprà) when it is angry. (Mgh.) And in a dog, Two black small spots above the eyes: (K:) or two things above the eyes, resembling the زَنَمَتَانِ [see رَنَمَةٌ] of a camel: or two pieces of flesh in the head, resembling two horns: or two fangs projecting from the mouth: and other explanations are given by the interpreters of strange words [occurring in the traditions]. (TA.) زُبَيْبٌ a dim. of زُبٌّ, q. v. (Msb.) b2: Also a shortened dim. of أَزَبُّ, q. v. (Ham p. 140.) زَبِيبَةٌ n. un. of زَبِيبٌ. (S, Msb) [See the latter throughout.] b2: Also (tropical:) A small purulent swelling or pustule, that comes forth upon the hand, (S, A, K, TA,) like what is termed عَرْفَةٌ. (TA.) زُبَيْبَةٌ a dim. of زُبٌّ, q. v. (Msb.) زَبِيبِىٌّ [now vulgarly called زَبِيب] A beverage made from زَبِيب [or raisins] (Mgh, K) by steeping them in water. (K.) b2: See also what next follows.

زَبَّابٌ A seller of زَبِيب [or raisins]; as also ↓ زَبِيبِىٌّ. (K.) زَبْزَبٌ A sort of ship or boat: (S, K:) a small ship or boat: pl. زَبَازِبُ. (Msb.) A2: Also A certain beast, resembling the cat: (K:) it is an animal black and white, short in the fore and hind legs. (Dmr, TA.) أَزَبُّ Downy: (K:) and, applied to a man, having much hair: (A, K:) or having much and long hair: (S, TA: [but accord. to the former, it seems to be applied in this sense to a camel:]) or, applied to a man, having much hair in the ears and eyebrows: and having much hair on the fore arms and the eyebrows and eyes: (TA:) or, thus applied, having much hair on the chest: (Msb:) and, applied to a camel, having much fur: or having much fur on the face: (A:) or having much hair on the face and under the lower jaw: (K:) or, in the ears and on the eyes: (TA:) or having much hair on the face and body: and ↓ زُبَيْبٌ is a shortened dim. thereof: (Ham p. 140:) fem. زَبَّآءُ, applied to a woman as meaning having much hair in the eyebrows and on the fore arms and the hands: (A:) and to an ear as meaning having much hair: (TA:) pl. زُبٌّ. (A.) It is said in a prov., كُلُّ أَزَبَّ نَفُورٌ [Every one, of camels, that has much hair on the face &c. is wont to take fright, and run away at random]: for the camel thinks what he sees upon his eyes to be a person seeking him, and consequently takes fright, and runs away at random: (A:) the camel to which this epithet applies is seldom, or never, other than نفور; because there grow upon his eyebrow small hairs, and when the wind strikes them he takes fright, and runs away at random. (S, TA.) b2: الأَزَبُّ is a name of One of the devils: (K, TA:) mention is made in a trad. of a certain devil named أَزَبُّ العَقَبَةِ: (K, TA:) but in the L, and in the Seeret El-Halabee, it is written إِزْبُ العَقَبَةِ: and it is said to be a serpent. (TA in art. ازب.) b3: الزَّبَّآءُ The اِسْت [i. e. podex, or anus], (K, TA,) with its hair. (TA.) b4: عَامٌ أَزَبُّ (tropical:) A year abundant in herbage. (S, A, Msb, K.) b5: يَوْمٌ أَزَبُّ: see أَحَصُّ, in two places. b6: جَيْشٌ

أَزَبُّ (assumed tropical:) An army having many spears. (Ham p. 259.) b7: مَسْأَلَةٌ زَبَّآءُ ذَاتُ وَبَرٍ (tropical:) A dubious and difficult question: likened to the she-camel that [has much hair and fur upon the face &c., and consequently] is wont to take fright, and run away at random. (TA.) b8: And دَاهِيَةٌ زَبَّآءُ (tropical:) A calamity, or misfortune, hard to be borne, severe, (A, K, TA,) and abominable; like شَعْرَآءُ (TA) and وَبْرَآءُ. (S and A and TA in art. شعر.) Hence the prov., جَآءَبِالشَّعْرَآءِ الزَّبَّآءِ [He brought to pass that which was a calamity hard to be borne, &c.] (TA.) مُزِبٌّ: see what follows.

مُزَبِّبٌ and ↓ مُزِبٌّ Possessing much wealth. (K.)

صخر

2 تَصْخِيرٌ [inf. n. of صَخَّرَ] i, q. تَسْخِيرٌ. (K.) صَخْرٌ (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ صَخَرٌ, (S, Msb, K,) the latter on the authority of Yaakoob, (S,) thus sometimes pronounced, (Msb,) Rocks; or great masses of stone: (S:) or great masses of hard stone: (A, K:) and صَخْرَةٌ (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and صَخَرَةٌ (S, Msb, K) [are the ns. un., signifying] one thereof, (S, A, K,) or these have a more special signification [as meaning a rock and a mass of rock]: (Msb:) pl. صُخُورٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and صُخُورَةٌ (A, Sgh, L) and [of صَخْرَةٌ and صَخَرَةٌ] صَخَرَاتٌ. (Msb, K. [In the latter, صَخْرٌ and صَخَرٌ, as well as صُخُورٌ and صَخَرَاتٌ, are improperly termed pls. of صخرة.]) By صَخْرَة in the Kur xxxi. 15 is meant a صخرة that is beneath the ground. (Zj, TA.) And by the صَخْرَة mentioned in a trad. as being of, or from, Paradise is meant the صخرة [or rock] of Jerusalem [in the centre of the building now called “ the Dome of the Rock ”]. (TA.) صَخَرٌ; n. un. صَخَرَةٌ: see صَخْرٌ.

صَخِرٌ A place abounding in rocks, or great masses of hard stone; as also ↓ مُصْخِرٌ. (K.) صَخِيرٌ A certain plant. (K.) [Golius explains this as meaning Great, applied to a rock, or mass of stone; and so مَصْخَرٌ; on the authority of J: but neither of these do I find in the S.]

صَخِيرَةٌ: see صَحِيرَةٌ.

صَاخِرٌ The sound of iron [striking] upon iron. (K.) صَاخِرَةٌ A kind of earthen vessel, (S, A, K,) out of which one drinks. (A.) أَصْخَرُ الوَجْهِ (tropical:) A hard-faced man; one having little shame. (A.) مُصْخِرٌ; see صَخِرٌ.

هبط

1 هَبَطَ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـِ and هَبُطَ, (Msb, K,) but the latter is of rare occurrence, (Msb,) inf. n. هُبُوطٌ, (S, K,) of that whereof the aor. is هَبِطَ, and of that whereof the aor. is هَبُطَ; (TA;) or of the latter only, that of the former being هَبْطٌ; (Msb;) He, or it, (said of water &c., Msb,) descended: (S, Msb, K:) and ↓ تهبّط he descended, or went down, or went down a declivity; and it sloped down; syn. إِنْحَدَرَ; (TA;) and ↓ انهبط signifies the same as this last; or (assumed tropical:) he became lowered, or degraded; syn. إِنْحَطَّ; (K;) being quasi-pass. of ↓ أَهْبَطَهُ, (S, TA,) and it may be also of هَبَطَهُ, as is said in the M. (TA.) You say, هَبَطْنَا فِى

حَدُورٍ صَعْبَةٍ [We descended a difficult declivity]. (A, in art. حدر.) And هَبَطَ الوَادِىَ, (Bd, ii. 58, and Msb,) [as though it were trans., for فِى

الوَادِى,] inf. n. هُبُوطٌ, (Msb,) We descended into the valley. (Bd, Msb.) And هَبَطَ مِنْهُ He came forth from it. (Bd, ubi supra.) It is said in the Kur, ii. 58, إِهْبِطُوا مِصْرًا Descend ye into Misr: (Bd:) accord. to one reading, أُهْبُطُوا. (Bd, TA.) You say also هَبَطَ بَلَدَ كَذَا He entered such a town or country. (K.) and هَبَطْتُ مِنْ مَوْضِعٍ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ I removed him from a place to a place. (Msb.) b2: هَبْطٌ also signifies (tropical:) The falling into evil: (K, TA:) and (tropical:) the being, or becoming, low, abject, mean, or vile: (TA:) and (tropical:) the suffering loss, or diminution. (K, TA.) You say, هَبَطَ مِنْ مَنْزِلَتِهِ (tropical:) He fell from his honourable station. (TA.) [See also 7, mentioned above.] And هَبَطَ فُلَانٌ (tropical:) Such a one became low, abject, mean, or vile. (TA.) and هَبَطَ مِنَ الخَشْيَةِ (tropical:) He became mean, or abject, and lowly, or submissive, from fear (TA.) [See Kur, ii. 69.] And هَبَطَ القَوْمُ, aor. ـِ (tropical:) The people, or company of men, became in a state of abasement and diminution. (TA.) Whence the trad., (TA,) أَللّٰهُمَّ غَبْطًا لَا هَبْطًا, (S, TA,) i. e. نَسْأَلُكَ الغِبْطَةَ وَنَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ أَنْ نَهْبِطَ عَنْ حَالِنَا ((tropical:) O God, we ask of Thee a good state, or condition, and we put our trust in Thee for preservation that we may not become brought down from our state]: (S.) mentioned [and explained] before, in art. غبط, q. v. (TA.) [But in this instance, هَبْطًا may be regarded as the inf. n. of the trans. v. to be mentioned below.] You say also, هَبَطَتْ إِبِلِى

وَغَنَمِى, aor. ـ, inf. n. هُنُوطٌ, (assumed tropical:) My camels, and my sheep, or goats, suffered loss, or diminution: and in the same sense هَبَطَ is said of flesh, and of fat, and of fatness. (TA.) And هَبَطَ ثَمَنُ السِّلْعَةِ (tropical:) The price of the commodity, or article of merchandise, became diminished, or lessened, (S, Msb, K, TA.) below its former full rate; (Msb;) became lowered, or abated. (TA.) And هَبَطَ العِدْلُ (assumed tropical:) The counterpoising portion of the load became adjusted or arranged, made even, or made easy, upon the camel. (TA.) A2: هَبَطَهُ, (S, Msb. K.) aor. ـُ (K,) inf. n. هَبْطٌ, (S,) He made him, or it, (namely water. &c., Msb,) to descend: (S, Msb, K;) [he sent, or east, him, or it, down;] as also ↓ اهبطهُ. (K.) You say, السَّنَةُ إِلَى ↓ أَهْبَطَتْهُمُ الأَمْصَارِ [The year of dearth, or drought, caused them to go down to the cities, or great towns]. (A, in art. حسر.) And هَبَطَهُ بَلَدَ كَذَا He, or it, caused him to enter such a town or country. (K.) [And هَبَطَ بِهِ عَلَى مَكَانٍ He, or it, made him to alight upon a place: see an ex. voce زَحَّ.] b2: (tropical:) He lowered him, or degraded him, from his state, or condition; (Fr;) as also ↓ اهبطهُ; (Fr, S;) i. e., God did so; (Fr;) or a man: (S:) it (time, or fortune,) caused his wealth, and his goodness or beneficence, to go away, after he had abounded therein. (TA.) b3: هَبَطَ المَرَضُ لَحْمَهُ (tropical:) The disease rendered him lean; emaciated him: (S, K:) or diminished his flesh. (TA.) b4: هَبَطَ ثَمَنَ السِّلْعَةِ, (S, K.) inf. n. هَبْطٌ, (K,) (tropical:) He (God, K, or a man, S) diminished, or lessened, the price of the commodity, or article of merchandise; (S, K;) he lowered, or abated, it; (TA;) as also ↓ اهبطهُ, said of a man: (A 'Obeyd, S, M:) or هَبَطَ مِنَ الثَّمَنِ (assumed tropical:) he diminished somewhat from the price; and sometimes ↓ اهبطهُ is used in this sense. (Msb.) b5: هَبَطَ العِدْلَ (assumed tropical:) He adjusted or arranged, made even, or made easy, the counterpoising portion of the load upon the camel (TA.) b6: هَبَطَ فُلَانًا He beat, or struck, such a one. (K.) 4 أَهْبَطَ see هَبَطَهُ, in five places.5 تَهَبَّطَ see هَبَطَ, first sentence.7 إِنْهَبَطَ see هَبَطَ, first sentence.

هَبْطَةٌ A low, or depressed, piece of land or ground; (Mgh, K;) contr. of صَعْدَةٌ. (Mgh.) هَبُوطٌ A declivity, or declinal place, a place of descent, or by which one descends, (S, Msb, K;) a place which brings one down from a higher to a lower place. (Az, TA.) هَبيطٌ (tropical:) Lean, or emaciated, by reason of disease; as also ↓ مَهْبُوطٌ: (K:) both are applied to a camel, signifying whose fatness has become diminished; as also ↓ هَابِطٌ: (TA:) and the first, to a she-camel, signifying lean, and lank in the belly; (AO, S;) or to a wild bull, to which a she-camel is likened in respect of her swiftness, and her briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness (IB:) and ↓ the second signifies rendered lean. or emaciated, by disease, so that his flesh quivers. (TA.) هَابِطٌ [act. part. n. of 1, both intrans. and trans.] The rájiz says, مَا رَاعَِنى إِلَّا جَنَاحٌ هَابِطَا عَلَى البُيُوت قَوْطَهُ العُلَابِطَا [Nothing surprised me but the wolf sending down upon the tents his flock of sheep, or goats, fifty or more in number]: he means مُهْبِطًا قَوْطَهُ: so says ISd: or he may mean هَابِطًا عَلَى قَوْطِهِ [descending upon his flock, &c.]; making هابطا trans by ellipsis: (TA:) جناح, in this verse, is the name of a wolf. (TA, in art. جنح.) b2: See also هَبِيطٌ.

مَهْبِطُ الوَحْىِ [The place of descent of revelation;] a name of Mekkah. (Msb, TA) مَهْبُوطٌ (tropical:) A man whose state, or condition has become unsound. (TA.) b2: See also هَبيطٌ, in two places.