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خَبْأَةٌ ذ A daughter; syn. بِنْتٌ. (K, TA. [In the CK, النَّبْتُ is put for البِنْتُ.]) Hence the prov., خَبْأَةٌ خَيْرٌ مِنْ يَفَعَةِ سَوْءٍ [A daughter is better than a grown-up boy of evil deeds]. (TA.) [In Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 438, the first word in this prov. is written خُبَأَة, and followed by صِدْقٍ.] Aboo-Zeyd Sa'eed Ibn-Ows El-Ansáree entitled one of his books كتاب خبأة because he commenced it by mentioning خبأة in the sense of بنت, quoting the foregoing prov. in confirmation thereof. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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