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تَحْدِيبٌ تحديب [inf. n. of حدّب ] The act of elevating, or raising high, the back. (KL.) ― -b2- [And, accord. to Golius, as on the authority of the KL, The making a thing gibbous, or convex: but this meaning which the word has in the present day, I do not find in my copy of the KL.]

احدبهُ احدبه احدبة أحدب أحدبه حدب He (God) rendered him humpbacked. (S.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He, or it, rendered him affectionate, favourable, or kind. (KL.)

تَحَدَّبَ see 1, in two places. ― -b2- تحدّب بِهِ He, or it, clung, or clave, to it. (K, TA.)

تَحَاْدَبَ see 1.

اـِنْحَدَبَ see 1.

اـِحْدَبَّ see 1.

اـِحْدَوْدَبَ see 1, in two places. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) It (sand) was, or became, curved, or winding; or curved, or winding, and long. (K.)

حَدَبٌ حدب (tropical:) High, or elevated, ground; so in the Kur xxi. 96; (S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ حَدَبَةٌ ; and so حَدَبٌ مِنَ الأَرْضِ : (A:) or rugged and high ground: (T, K:) pl. حِدَابٌ (S) [and app., accord. to the TA, أَحْدَابٌ also, a pl. of pauc.]. And حَدَبُ الرَّمْلِ (tropical:) Sand brought by the wind, [or blown together,] and elevated. (A, TA.) And hence, as being likened to such sand, (IAar, TA,) حَدَبُ البُهْمَى (tropical:) What is scattered, and heaped up, of [the species of barley-grass called] بهمى . (IAar, K, TA.) And حَدَبُ المَا=ءِ (assumed tropical:) The elevated waves of water: (T, TA:) or the rolling over of water, volume over volume: (K, TA:) or the rolling of water in waves. (TA.) And حَدَبُ الغَدِيرِ (assumed tropical:) The motion and waves of the pool of water left by a torrent. (IAar, TA.) And حَدَبُ السَّيْل (tropical:) The rise, or swell, and abundance, of the torrent. (A, TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A slope in a declivity; expl. by حَدُورٌ فِى صَبَبٍ , as in the correct copies of the K, and in the L; in some copies of the K حدوب ; (TA;) [in the CK حُدُورٌ ;] as the حَدَب of waves (in some copies of the K, of the wind, TA, [an evident mistranscription, الريح for الموج ,]) and of sand. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) A mark left upon the skin; (As, K;) such as the [weal or] swelling and thickness produced by beating. (As, TA.) ― -b4- (tropical:) The intenseness of the cold of winter. (A, K.) -A2- A certain plant: or the [plant called] نَصِىّ . (K.)

حَدِبٌ حدب : see أَحْدَبُ . ― -b2- Also (tropical:) Affectionate, favourable, or kind. (A, TA.) You say, هُوَ حَدِبٌ عَلَى أَخِيهِ (tropical:) He is affectionate, &c., to his brother. (A.) -A2- أَرْضٌ حَدِبَةٌ A land abounding with the plant called حَدَب . (K.)

حَذَبَةٌ A hump on the back. (Az, S, A, Mgh.) ― -b2- See also حَدَبٌ .

حَدَابِ حداب حدب , like قَطَامِ , (K,) indecl., (TA,) (assumed tropical:) A year of drought, barrenness, or dearth: (K:) or a year of severe drought. (TA.)

حُدَيْبَا=ءُ حديبا=ء : see what next follows.

أَحْدَبُ Humpbacked; (S, Mgh, Msb;) having a prominent, or protuberant, back, and a hollow, or receding, chest and belly; (K;) and ↓ حَدِبٌ signifies the same: (Sb, S, K:) fem. of the former حَدْبَا=ءُ : (Msb:) and pl. حُدْبٌ . (Msb, TA.) اِبْنَةٌ ↓ حُدَيْبَا=ءُ (dim. of حَدْبَا=ءُ ), meaning A little humpbacked daughter, occurs in a trad. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, ا=لَةٌ حَدْبَا=ءُ , (see a verse of Kaab Ibn-Zuheyr, voce ا=لَةٌ , in art. اول ,) (assumed tropical:) A gibbous bier: (A, * TA:) or (as used in that verse) it means a distressing state, or condition: or an elevated apparatus. (TA.) And رَمْلَةٌ حَدْبَا=ءُ (assumed tropical:) [A gibbous tract of sand]. (ISh, K in art. دبح , &c.) And نَاقَةٌ حَدْبَا=ءُ , (S, A,) or دَابَّةٌ حدبَا=ءُ , (K,) (tropical:) A she-camel, (S, A,) or a beast, (K,) the prominent parts of whose hips, (S, A, K,) and the bone of whose back, (TA,) appear, (S, A, K,) by reason of her leanness. (A, TA.) And حَدْبَا=ءُ حِدْبِيرٌ and حِدْبَارٌ are expressions used in the same sense: (L, TA:) pl. حُدْبٌ حَدَابِيرُ . (S, L, TA.) ― -b3- الأَحْدَبُ is the name of A vein ( عِرْق ) penetrating into, or lying within, the bone ( عَظْمَ [app. a mistranscription for عَظَمَة the upper portion]) of the fore-arm. (K.) ― -b4- أَمْرٌ أَحْدَبُ (A) and خُطَّةٌ حَدْبَا=ءُ (A, TA) (tropical:) A difficult affair: (A, TA:) and أُمُورٌ حُدْبٌ (A, TA) and حُدْبُ الأُمُورِ (K) (tropical:) difficult affairs; (A, K, TA;) sing. حَدْبَا=ءُ [for خُطَّةٌ حَدْبَا=ءُ or the like]. (K.) And سَنَةٌ حَدْبَا=ءُ (tropical:) A severe, cold year. (A, TA.) [Hence,] وَسِيقٌ أَحْدَبُ (assumed tropical:) A quick driving. (TA.) ― -b5- [Hence, also,] الأَحْدَبُ [used as a subst.] (assumed tropical:) Vehemence, severity, difficulty, or distress; syn. الشِّدَّةُ . (K.) -A2- [Also (assumed tropical:) More, and most, affectionate, favourable, or kind.] أَحْدَبُهُمْ عَلَى المُسْلِمِينَ , said of Aboo-Bekr, in a trad. of 'Alee, means (assumed tropical:) The most affectionate, favourable, or kind, of them, to the Muslims. (TA.)