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خِبَآءٌ خبآء A well-known kind of structure; (K;) [i. e.] a kind of tent, (Mgh, TA,) made of wool, (Mgh, Msb,) or of camels' fur, or sometimes of [goats'] hair, sometimes upon two poles, or three; what is above this kind being termed بَيْتٌ: (Msb:) or a tent having one pole; that which has more than one pole being termed بيت: (AZ, TA in art. ربع:) [or] also applied to a بيت [or tent] of any kind: (Towsheeh, TA voce بَيْتٌ, q. v.:) pl. أَخْبِئَةٌ, (TA,) or أَخْبِيَةٌ: (Msb:) it is from خَبَأَهُ “ he hid it, ” or “ concealed it: ” (Mgh:) or it belongs to art. خبى: (K:) most of the lexicologists hold that its radical letters are خبى: some, that they are خبو: IDrd asserts that they are خبأ. (TA:) [See also art. خبى.] -A2- A mark made with a hot iron upon some secret part of an excellent she-camel: pl. أَخْبِئَةٌ. (Lth, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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