لابة

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ل و ب (l w b) related to being black or parched.

Noun

لَابَة • (lāba) f (dual لَابَتَان (lābatān), plural لُوب (lūb) or لَاب (lāb) or لَابَات (lābāt))

  1. (uncountable) black volcanic rock, basalt
    • a. 815, Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī:
      عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللهُ عَنْهُ أَنَّهُ كَانَ يَقُولُ: لَوْ رَأَيْتُ الظِّبَاءَ بِالْمَدِينَةِ تَرْتَعُ مَا ذَعَرْتُهَا، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللهِ صَلَّى اللهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: "مَا بَيْنَ لَابَتَيْهَا حَرَامٌ".
      ʕan ʔabī hurayrata raḍiya llāhu ʕanhu ʔannahu kāna yaqūlu: law raʔaytu ẓ-ẓibāʔa bi-l-madīnati tartaʕu mā ḏaʕartuhā, qāla rasūlu llāhi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama: "mā bayna lābatayhā ḥarāmun".
      Narrated Abu Huraira: If I saw deer grazing in Medina, I would not chase them, for Allah's Apostle said, "(Medina) is a sanctuary between its two mountains."
  2. (uncountable) lava (ejected magma)

Declension

Declension of noun لَابَة (lāba)
singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
indefinite definite construct
informal لَابَة
lāba 		اللَّابَة
al-lāba 		لَابَة
lābat
nominative لَابَةٌ
lābatun 		اللَّابَةُ
al-lābatu 		لَابَةُ
lābatu
accusative لَابَةً
lābatan 		اللَّابَةَ
al-lābata 		لَابَةَ
lābata
genitive لَابَةٍ
lābatin 		اللَّابَةِ
al-lābati 		لَابَةِ
lābati
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