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جَبُوبٌ جبوب The earth, (Lh, K,) in general; (Lh;) sometimes written جَبُوبُ, as a proper name, without the article, and imperfectly decl., like شَعُوبُ: (TA:) so called because it is cut, i. e. dug; or because it cuts, i. e. dissunders, the bodies of those buried in it: (Suh, TA:) and hence ↓ جَبَّانٌ and ↓ جَبَّانَةٌ , signifying a burial-ground; from الجَبُّ and الجَبُوبُ; accord. to Kh; but others derive these two words from جبن: (TA:) or rugged land: (As, S, K:) or hard or rugged land, composed of rock, not of soil: (IAar, TA:) or earth, or dust: (Lh, K:) or the surface of the earth; (ISh, S, K;) whether plain or rugged or mountainous: (ISh:) a word without a pl.: (S:) also coarse, or big, lumps or clods of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud; plucked from the surface of the ground: (TA:) or crumbled clods of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud: (IAar, TA:) and with ة, a lump, or clod, of clay or mud; or of dry, or tough, or cohesive, clay or mud. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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