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شِبِثٌّ ذ [erroneously written in some copies of the K شِبْثٌ, and in the L شِبِثٌ,] A certain wellknown plant; (AHn, L, Msb;) a certain herb, or leguminous plant; (K;) [i. q. شِبِتٌّ and سِبِتٌّ, q. v.; i. e. anethum graveolens, or dill, of the common garden-species:] Sgh says that شبث is a foreign word of which سِبِتٌّ is an arabicized form; and it is made of the measure فِعِلٌّ because this measure has many examples; whereas the measure فِعِلٌّ, of which إِِبِلٌ is an instance, is extraordinary. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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