إِصْطَبْلٌ

A stable (K) for دَوَابّ [i. e. horses or mules or asses]: (S [in some copies of which it is omitted] and K:) the ا is radical, because an augmentative does not occur at the beginning of a word of four or five letters unless derived from a verb: (S:) [probably from the barbarous Greek σταβλίον:] AA says that it is not of the [genuine] language of the Arabs: (S:) IB says that it is a foreign word, used by the Arabs: (TA:) according to some, (TA,) it is of the dialect of Syria: (K, TA:) the plural is أَصَاطِبُ: and the diminutive أُصَيْطِبٌ. (TA.)