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صُبٌّ ذ : see صُبَّةٌ. ― -b2- Accord. to AO, it may also be pl. of ↓ صَبُوبٌ or of ↓ صَابٌّ : but Az says that, accord. to others, it is not pl. of either of these two words; their pl. being صُبُبٌ: (L, TA:) it is said in a trad., (S, L, TA,) respecting conflicts and factions, or seditions, (L, TA,) لَتَعُودُنَّ فِيهَا أَسَاوِدَ صُبًّا يَضْرِبُ بَعْضُكُمْ رِقَابَ بَعْضٍ: (S, L, TA:) here by أَسَاوِد are meant “ [great and noxious] serpents: ” (L, TA:) and صُبًّا, accord. to Ez-Zuhree, is from الصَّبُّ [“ the act of pouring out or forth ”]; for the serpent, he says, when it desires to bite, raises itself, and then darts down (lit. pours down) upon him that is bitten: (S, L, TA:) [as though the meaning were, Ye will be, therein, like great and noxious serpents, one portion of you smiting the necks of another portion:] Ez-Zuhree says that صُبًّا is pl. of ↓ صَبُوبٌ , and originally صُبُبًا; like as رَجُلٌ صَبٌّ is originally صَبِبٌ; and so says IAmb: but IAar is related to have said that أَسَاوِد means companies, pl. of سَوَادٌ; and صُبًّا, pouring, one upon another, with slaughter: and some say that it is صُبَّى, in measure like حُبْلَى; and it is said to be from صَبَا, [for صَبَا إِِلَى الدُّنْيَا,] aor. يَصْبُو, meaning “ he inclined to the things of the present world; ” and thus to be like غُزَّى, pl. of غَازٍ: [see صَابٍ, in art. صبو:] IAar used also to say that it is originally صُبَّأً, with ', [pl. of صَابِئٌ,] from صَبَأً عَلَيْهِ “ he came, or came forth, upon him unexpectedly. ” (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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