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خَصْبَةٌ خصب خصبه خصبة : see خِصْبٌ. ― -b2- Also, [app. as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant,] A palm-tree having much fruit: pl. خِصَابٌ (S, K) and ↓ خَصْبٌ : (K, TA:) or خَصْبٌ [is properly a coll. gen. n., and] signifies palm-trees [absolutely:] (K:) and خَصْبَةٌ signifies a palmtree of the kind called نَخْلَةُ الدَّقَلِ, in the dial. of the people of El-Bahreyn, (Az, TA,) or of Nejd; (TA;) and its pl. is خِصَابٌ. (Az, TA.) ― -b3- It is said that ↓ خَصْبٌ signifies also The spadix of the palm-tree: so in the K: and accord. to Lth, خَصْبَةٌ signifies a single spadix of a palm-tree: but [it is probably a mistranscription for خَضْبَةٌ, with the pointed ض:] Az says that he who assigns to it this meaning errs. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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