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خَبٌّ خب (JK, S, A, L, Msb, K) [said in the Msb to be originally an inf. n.] and ↓ خِبٌّ (S, L, K) [originally an inf. n. accord. to most authorities] and ↓ خُبٌّ , (MF,) applied to a man, (S, A, L, Msb,) fem. خَبَّةٌ, [which casts doubt upon the assertion that خَبٌّ is originally an inf. n., for were it so the masc. and fem. accord. to a general rule would be the same, as well as the sing. and pl.,] applied to a woman, (JK, A,) A great deceiver, or very deceitful; (JK, * S, A, L, Msb, * K;) wicked and deceitful; a mischief-maker; (S, * A, * L, K, * TA;) deceitful, guileful, artful, crafty, or cunning; syn. مَكَّارٌ. (Ham p. 537, in explanation of the first and second.) -A2- Also the first of these words, A long, elevated tract (حَبْل, in some copies of the K erroneously written جبل, TA) of sand, cleaving to the ground. (K, TA.) ― -b2- And A plain, or soft, tract, between two rugged tracts, in which (i. e. in the former of which) are truffles. (AA, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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