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احطب احطب أحطب حطب : see 1. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) It (a grape-vine) attained to the time for having its حَطَب [q. v.] cut off from it: (S:) or (tropical:) attained to the time of bearing grapes and for the cutting off of what required to be cut off; as also ↓ استحطب : (A:) or the latter, it required to have its upper, or uppermost, portions cut off, (K,) or somewhat of those portions. (TA.)

احتطب احتطب أحتطب ٱحتطب : see 1, in three places. ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) It (rain) tore up the roots, or stems, of the trees [as though it made firewood of them]. (K.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) He (a camel, TA) fed upon the small and dry parts of the branches. (K, TA.) This a camel does only by reason of soundness, and of surpassing strength. (TA.) ― -b4- احتطب عَلَيْهِ فِى الأَمْرِ i. q. احتقب [app. meaning (assumed tropical:) He took upon himself a burden, or a responsibility, in the affair; as though he bound it like a bundle of firewood upon his back]. (K.)

اـِسْتَحْطَبَ see 4.

حَطَبٌ حطب Firewood; the portions of trees that are prepared for fuel: (M, A, K:) pl. أَحْطَابٌ . (Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, because enmity is kindled with it like as fire is with حَطَب [properly so called], (Har p. 209,) (tropical:) Calumny, or slander; (A, Mgh, TA;) also termed الحَطَبُ الرَّطْبُ . (TA.) The former is said to have this meaning in the Kur cxi. 4: (Mgh, TA:) or to mean thorns, which the woman there spoken of is related to have been in the habit of throwing in the way of Mohammad. (TA.) You say, يَحْمِلُ الحَطَبَ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ , meaning (tropical:) He goes about with calumny, or slander, among, or between, the people. (A.) ― -b3- Also (tropical:) The prunings of a grape-vine; (S, * A;) and so ↓ حِطَابٌ : (A:) the dry portions of a grape-vine that are of no use but for fire: (Mgh:) ― -b4- the latter is explained by ISh as meaning the prunings that are cut off each year from the upper, or uppermost, portions of a grape-vine. (TA.)

حَطِبٌ حطب , applied to a man, (S,) [and app. to cattle, (see خَشَبٌ ,)] (assumed tropical:) Very lean or meagre; as also ↓ أَحْطَبُ : (S, K:) or the latter means unlucky, or unfortunate; syn. مَشْوءُومٌ ; (K;) in some copies of the K مَوْسُومٌ ; (TA;) and its fem. is حَطْبَا=ءُ . (K.)

حِطَابٌ حطاب [app. an inf. n., see 1,] (assumed tropical:) The pruning of a grape-vine until reaching the part in which the sap runs. (K.) ― -b2- See also حَطَبٌ , in two places.

حَطِيبٌ حطيب , (S, Msb, K,) fem. with ة , (K,) A place, (S, Msb, K,) or land, (K,) abounding with firewood. (S, * Msb, K.)

حَطُوبَةٌ حطوبه حطوبة A handful, or bundle, of firewood. (K, * TA.)

حَطَّابٌ حطاب : see حَاطِبٌ . ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A camel that feeds upon the small and dry parts of branches: (K, TA:) fem. with ة . (TA.) [See 8.]

حَاطِبٌ حاطب A collector of firewood: (Msb, TA:) and so ↓ حَطَّابٌ , (A, Msb,) but in an intensive sense: (Msb:) or the latter, one who collects and sells firewood: (TA:) and حَطَّابَةٌ a company of collectors of firewood: (S, Mgh:) and اـِمَا=ءٌ حَوَاطِبُ [pl. of حَاطِبَةٌ ] female slaves who collect firewood. (A, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ حَاطِبُ لَيْلٍ (tropical:) He is one who confuses in his speech, (A, K,) and in his affair: (TA:) or one who speaks what is bad and what is good: (S, TA:) like him who collects firewood by night; (TA;) for this person sees not what he collects in his rope, (S, TA,) so he collects bad and good. (TA.) Az says, one who acts unjustly towards himself is likened to a collector of wood by night, because the latter may chance to put his hand upon a viper, and be bitten by it: and so is one who does not restrain his tongue, but censures others; by doing which a man sometimes occasions his own death. (TA.) It is said in a prov., المِكْثَارُ حَاطِبُ لَيْلٍ (tropical:) The loquacious is [like] a collector of firewood by night. (A 'Obeyd, TA.)

أَحْطَبُ : see حَطِبٌ .

مِحْطَبٌ محطب (assumed tropical:) A pruning-knife. (K, TA.)

مُحَاطِبَةٌ محاطبه محاطبة (assumed tropical:) A she-camel that eats dry thorns. (S, K.)

مُحْتَطِبٌ محتطب (assumed tropical:) A small creeping thing that goes along upon the ground with pieces of wood, or stick, clinging to it. (Ham p. 207.)