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إِِبْطٌ أبط إِبط ابط بط [The armpit;] the inner side of the shoulderjoint: (ISd, K:) or the part beneath the جَنَاح [which signifies the arm, upper arm, armpit, and wing, &c.]: (S, Msb:) also written ↓ إِِبِطٌ ; (Msb, K;) which is said to be a dial. var. by some of the moderns; but this is strange, on account of what is said respecting إِِبِلٌ; (Msb;) for Sb says that there are only two substs. of the measure فِعِلٌ, which are إِِبِلٌ and حِبِرٌ; and one epithet, namely بِلِزٌ: other instances have been mentioned, but their transmission from Sb is not established: (Msb. in art. ابل:) it is also said that there is no other word like إِِبِلٌ; but this means, in its original form, and does not deny that there are words like it by the insertion of a second vowel like the first, such as this and many other words: (TA:) [see also إِِبِدٌ:] it is fem.; (Mgh;) or masc. and fem.; (S, Msb;) sometimes the latter; (Lh, K;) but the making it mase. is more approved: (TA:) Fr cites, from certain of the Arabs, the phrase, (S,) فَرَفَعَ السَّوْطَ حَتَّى بَرَقَتْ إِِبْطُهُ [And he raised the whip so that his armpit shone]: (S, Msb:) the pl. is آبَاطٌ. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] ضَرَبَ آبَاطَ الأُمُورِ وَمَغَابِنَهَا (tropical:) [He hit the secret and occult particulars of the affairs]. (A, TA [followed by the words وَ ا@شْتَقَّ ضَمَائِرَهَا وَبَوَاطِنَهَا, a pleonastic addition, merely explaining what goes before.]) ― -b3- And ضَرَبَ آبَاطَ المَفَازَةِ (tropical:) [He traversed the recesses of the desert]. (TA.) ― -b4- And إِِبْطُ جَبَلٍ (assumed tropical:) The foot, or bottom, or lowest part, (سَفَحْ,) of a mountain. (TA.) ― -b5- And إِِبْطُ رَمْلٍ (assumed tropical:) The place where the main body of sand ends: (S:) or what is thin, of sand: (K:) or the lowest part of an oblong tract of sand collected together and elevated, where the main body thereof ends, and it becomes thin. (TA.) ― -b6- And إِِبعطُ الشِّمَالِ (assumed tropical:) Evil fortune; ill luck. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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