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خُبْنَةٌ خاب خبنه خبنة The doubled upper border of the trousers, (IAth, TA,) next the back, in which one hides, or conceals, [or carries,] a thing; (IAar, TA;) the ثُبْنَة being [similar to it, but] in the waistwrapper, (IAth, TA,) next the belly: (IAar, TA:) or the raised skirt, or lower part, of the garment, in which one carries a thing: pl. خُبَنٌ. (Har p. 427.) And What one carries in the حِضْن [or part between the armpit and the flank, &c.]: (S, K:) or what one carries beneath the armpit, (JK, Msb,) and in the sleeve: (JK:) or what is put, of food, and carried under the armpit or in the sleeve. (Har p. 427.) It is said in a trad. of 'Omar, إِِذَا مَرَّ أَحَدُكُمْ بِحَائِطٍ فَا@لْيَأْكُلْ مِنْهُ وَلَا يَتَّخِذْ خُبْنَةٌ [When any one of you passes by a garden of palm-trees, let him eat thereof, but not make, or take for himself, a خبنة]. (S, * TA. [See another reading voce ثِبَانٌ.])

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