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حُبْلَةٌ حبل حبله حبلة The fruit, or produce, of the [kind of trees called] عِضَاهُ, (S, K,) in general: (K:) or the pod, or receptacle of the seeds, of the سَمُر and سَلَم; [so accord. to AZ; as appears from a comparison of passages in art. بل in the T and TA;] that of other [trees of the kind called] عضاه being termed سِنْفَةٌ: (TA:) or the fruit, or produce, of the سَمُر, resembling the [species of kidney-bean called] لُوبِيَآء; (IAar, TA;) or of the سَلَم and سَيَال and سَمُر, (M, K,) which is a curved thing, containing small black grains, resembling lentils: (M, TA:) or, accord. to AO, a species of tree; as is the سَمُر: (Az, TA:) pl. ↓ حُبْلٌ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the proper pl. is] حُبَلٌ. (K.) Hence, in a trad. of Saad, وَ مَا لَنَا طَعَامٌ إِِلَّا الحُبْلَةُ وَ وَرَقُ السَّمُرِ [We having no food except the حبلة and the leaves of the سمر]. (S, TA.) ― -b2- A kind of ornament worn by women, (S, K, TA,) fashioned in the form of the fruit thus called, (TA,) and put upon necklaces, (S, TA,) used in the Time of Ignorance. (As, TA.) ― -b3- A certain herb, (بَقْلَةٌ, ISd, K,) sweet, or pleasant, of the herbs termed ذُكُور: so says ISd: and in one place he says, a certain tree which [the lizards termed] ضِبَاب eat. (TA.) ― -b4- See also what next follows.

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