restraining, intervening ; (used substantively) a shelter, defence, protection. A.
حب
ḥubb,
f.
love, affection ; friendship. ḥubbu-l-waṭan, love of one's country. A.
حب
ḥabb,
f.
a pill ; a grain ; a berry. A.
حباب
ḥubāb,
m.
a bubble. ḥubāb uṭhnā, n. to bubble. ḥubābī, of or resembling a bubble ; full of bubbles. A.
حباریٰ
ḥubārā,
NA
a species of bustard. A.
حبذا
ḥabbaẕā,
NA
excellent ! Bravo ! A.
حبس
ḥabs,
m.
retention, imprisonment ; prison ; a prisoner ; a bank, mound, dam ; a tanḳ, pond, reservoir. ḥabsu-l-baul, m. a retention of urine ; a strangury. ḥabsu-n-nafas, suffocation. ḥabsi dam, m. retaining the breath, which some faḳīrs do as a religious act for a very long time (this is esteemed a means of prologing life, on the very philosophic principle, that every man has a predestined number of inspirations to make, and the more slowly theses are performed, the longer will be the period of his existence) ; an asthma. a.