عُبَابٌ

The main body of a torrent, or flow of water: and the height and abundance thereof: (O, K:) or the waves, billows, or surges, thereof: (K:) and the first portion (O, K) thereof (O) or of a thing: (K:) and the first and main portion of water: and the vehemence of running thereof. (TA.)

[Hence,] عَبَّ عُبَابُهُ: see 1, near the end.

It is said in a tradition, إِنَّا حَىٌّ مِنْ مَذْحِجٍ عُبَابُ شَرَفِهَا وَلُبَابُ سَلَفِهَا, meaning (assumed tropical:) [Verily we are a tribe sprung from Medh-hij, the chief of their nobility, or nobles, and the purest, or best, issue] of their ancestry, or [the purest, or best, inheritors] of their ancestral might and glory. (TA: only سَلَفِهَا in this saying being there explained.) And in a tradition of 'Alee, relating to Aboo-Bekr, طِرْتَ بِعُبَابِهَا وفُزْتَ بِحَبَابِهَا, explained voce حَبَابٌ. (TA.) And one says, جَاوءُوا بِعُبَابِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) They came [with their whole company, or] all together. (TA.)

-A2- Also A خُوصَة [or leaf of a palm-tree &c.]. (K.)