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حَبِىٌّ حب حبى حبي : see حَابٍ. ― -b2- Also A collection of clouds; syn. سَحَابٌ; because it creeps along; or from حَبَا meaning عَرَضَ, wherefore it is also called عَارِضٌ: (Mgh:) or applied to a collection of clouds as meaning that presents itself, or its breadth, or width, or its side, or extends sideways, (S, Ham p. 785, and EM p. 51,) heaped up, (EM,) in the tracts of the horizon, (Ham,) like a mountain, before it covers the sky; (S, EM;) as also ↓ حَبًا ; (S;) so called because near to the earth, (S, Ham,) as though creeping, or crawling, like a child; or from حَبَا; like as سَحَابٌ is from سَحَبَ, (Ham,) or from سَحَبَ أَهْدَابَهُ: (TA:) or, as also ↓ حُبِىٌّ , a collection of clouds overpeering (يُشْرِفُ, in [some of] the copies of the K, erroneously, يشرق, TA) from the horizon upon the earth: or heaped up, one part above another. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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