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جُلْبَةٌ جلب جلبه جلبة The small piece of skin, (S,) or the crust, or scab, (A, K,) that forms over a wound (S, A, K) when it heals: (S, K:) pl. جُلَبٌ. (A.) ― -b2- A piece of skin that is put upon the [kind of camel's saddle called] قَتَب. (S, K.) [See 4.] ― -b3- [A piece of skin in which an amulet is enclosed: see 4.] ― -b4- An amulet upon which is sewed a piece of skin: (K:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b5- A detached portion of cloud: (K:) [or] a cloud covering the sky. (IAar, TA.) [See also جِلْبٌ.] ― -b6- A piece of land differing from that which adjoins it; a patch of ground; syn. بُقْعَةٌ. (K.) One says, إِِنَّهُ لَفِى جُلْبَةِ صِدْقٍ i. e. فى بُقْعَةِ صِدْقٍ [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) Verily he is in a good station or position: see art. بقع]. (TA.) ― -b7- A detached portion of herbage or pasture. (K, * TA.) -A2- Also Severity, or pressure, of time or fortune; (S, K;) like كُلْبَةٌ: (S:) and hunger: (so in some copies of the K:) or vehemence of hunger: (so in other copies of the K:) or severity; adversity; difficulty; trouble: (TA:) and a hard, distressful, or calamitous, year. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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