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لِبَاسٌ ذ [Clothing; dress; apparel;] what is worn; as also ↓ لِبْسٌ , and ↓ مَلْبَسٌ (S, M, * Msb, K) and ↓ مِلْبَسٌ (K) and ↓ لَبُوسٌ ; (S, K;) or the last signifies garments, or pieces of cloth: (M:) the pl. of the first is لُبُسٌ, like as كُتُبٌ is pl. of كِتَابٌ: and that of مَلْبَسٌ is مَلَابِسُ. (Msb.) Hence, لَباسُ الكَعْبَةِ, and الهَوْدَجِ, (Msb,) or الكَعْبَةِ ↓ لِبْسُ , and الهَوْدَجِ, (S, M, A, K,) The clothing, (S, Msb, K,) or covering of pieces of cloth, (M,) of the Kaabeh, and of the [camel-litter called] هودج. (S, M, Msb, K.) And لِبَاسُ التَّقْوَى, in the Kur [vii. 25,] (TA,) [(assumed tropical:) The apparel of piety: or] (tropical:) thick, or coarse, and rough, and short, apparel: (S:) or (tropical:) the covering of that portion of the person which modesty forbids one to expose; (K;) at which the preceding words of the verse glance; indicating that this is the main purpose of clothing; the additional purpose being to beautify and adorn one's self, and to repel heat and cold: (TA:) or (tropical:) honest shame, or the shrinking of the soul from foul conduct, through fear of blame; syn. الحَيَآءُ: (S, M, A, K:) or (tropical:) righteous conduct: (TA:) or (tropical:) faith. (Es-Suddee, K.) And ↓ اللِّبْسُ , (K,) written by Sgh ↓ اللُّبْسُ , (TA,) or لِبْسُ العَظْمِ, (A, TA,) (tropical:) i. q. السِّمْحَاقُ [The pericranium]: (A, K:) to which is added, in some of the copies of the K, in the handwriting of the author, i. e., a thing pellicle that is between the skin and the flesh. (TA.) ― -b2- The covering of anything. (M.) [Hence,] لِبَاسُ النَّوْرِ The outer coverings, or calyxes, of flowers. (M.) It is said in the Kur [lxxviii. 10,] وَجَعَلْنَا ا@لْلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا (assumed tropical:) [And we have made the night to be a covering]: i. e., it covers, veils, or conceals, you by its darkness. (TA.) ― -b3- A man's wife; (S, M, * K; *) like إِِزَارٌ: (M:) and a woman's husband: (S, M, * K: *) occurring in the Kur ii. 183: (S, M:) or there meaning like a garment: (M, TA:) because each embraces the other: or because each goes to the other for rest, and consorts with (يُلَابِسُ) the other: (Zj, M, Bd, * TA:) from المُلَابَسَةُ, signifying “ the mixing one's self and congregating, ” or “ the being mixed and congregated: ” (Ibn-'Arafeh, TA:) or because each conceals the state of the other, and prevents the other from acting viciously. (Bd.) ― -b4- لِبَاسُ الجُوعِ (tropical:) The utmost degree of hunger; (K, TA;) when people are so hungry that they eat camels' fur with blood: (TA:) so termed because all-involving. (K.) It is said in the Kur [xvi. 113,] فَأَذَاقَهَا ا@للّٰهَ لِبَاسَ ا@لْجُوعِ وَا@لْخَوْفِ (tropical:) [So God made her to taste the utmost degree of hunger and of fear]. (K, * TA. [See also 4 in art. ذوق.])