Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طِبَّةٌ ذ An oblong piece, or portion, of a garment, or of a piece of cloth, (S, A, TA,) as also ↓ طَبِيبَةٌ ; (A;) and likewise of skin: or a square piece of the latter: and a round piece in a مَزَادَة and a سُفْرَة and the like: (TA:) pl. طِبَبٌ: (S:) and, as also ↓ طِبَابَةٌ , (As, S, TA,) (assumed tropical:) a streak in sand and clouds, (As, TA,) or a streak of sand or clouds: (S:) or طِبَّةٌ and ↓ طِبَابَةٌ and ↓ طَبِيبَةٌ signify an oblong piece, or portion, of a garment or piece of cloth, and of skin, and (assumed tropical:) of land or ground, and (assumed tropical:) of clouds: (K:) or, all three words, a long strip of a garment or piece of cloth, and of skin, and (assumed tropical:) of sand, and (assumed tropical:) of clouds: (TA:) and (assumed tropical:) a long and narrow tract of land abounding with plants or herbage: (AHn, TA; and A in explanation of the first word:) pl. [of the first] طِبَبٌ and [of the same, or of the third, or a coll. gen. n. of which the second word is the n. un.,] ↓ طِبَابٌ . (K.) And sometimes طِبَّةٌ is applied to The piece that is sewed upon the edge of the leathern bucket and upon that of the سُفْرَة: and the pl. is طِبَبٌ and ↓ طِبَابٌ . (M, TA.) طِبَبُ شُعَاعِ الشَّمْسِ (As, S, TA) and ↓ الطِّبَابُ , (As, TA,) or طِبَبُ الشَّمْسِ and ↓ طِبَابُهَا , (A, TA,) signify (tropical:) The streaks that are seen in the rays, or beams, of the sun when it rises. (As, S, A, * TA.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [i. e. A side; or a region, quarter, or tract; &c.]: (so in a copy of the A:) or i. q. نَاصِيَةٌ [i. e. a forelock; &c.]. (So in the TA.) [One of these two explanations is app. a mistranscription for the other.] ― -b3- And one says, إِِنَّكَ لَتَلْقَى فُلَانًا عَلَى طِبَبٍ مُخْتَلِفَةٍ, meaning, عَلَى أَلْوَانٍ (tropical:) [i. e. Verily thou wilt find such a one to be of various moods, dispositions, or characters]. (A, TA.)