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مَضَبَّةٌ ذ A piece of land abounding with [the lizards called] ضِبَاب [pl. of ضَبٌّ]: pl. مَضَابُّ: you say, وَقَعْنَا فِى مَضَابَّ [We found ourselves in pieces of land abounding with ضِبَاب]. (S, O.) And أَرْضٌ مَضَبَّةٌ, (K,) or ↓ مُضِبَّةٌ , (S, IAth, Mgh, Msb,) and ↓ ضَبِبَةٌ , (S, K,) the last being one of those [reduplicative] words that preserve the original form, (S,) A land abounding with ضِبَاب. (S, IAth, Mgh, Msb, K.) -A2- See also ضَبٌّ, [of which it is a quasi-pl. n.,] in the former half of the paragraph.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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