شبط
شُبَاطٌ (AA, K) and شُبَاطُ, being perfectly and imperfectly decl., (AA, TA,) The name of a month in Greek; (AA, K;) i. q. سُبَاط, q. v. (AA, TA.) شَبُّوطٌ (S, K) and شُبُّوطٌ, (K,) the latter mentioned in the O on the authority of Lth, but in the L on the authority of Lh, and said by him to be a Greek word, (TA,) [a coll. gen. n.,] n. un. with ة, and sometimes that with fet-h is without teshdeed, (K,) i. e. شَبُوطَةٌ, mentioned by ISd, but with the expression of a doubt as to its correctness, (TA,) [now applied to A species of cyprinus, or carp: or, accord. to Golius, a fish resembling the alosa, or shad, but three times larger; wont to be brought from the Euphrates to Aleppo:] a species of fish, (Lth, S, K,) slender in the tail, wide in the middle part, soft to the feel, small in the head, resembling a بَرْبَط [or Persian lute]: (Lth, K:) the بربط when long, not broad, is likened to this fish; and this fish, to the بربط: the pl. is شَبَابِيطُ. (TA.) [See سُبُّوحٌ.]
