عَلْبٌ

A mark, an impression, or a scar, (S, O, K, TA,) of beating, and of burning with a hot iron, &c.; (TA;) or such as is mangled and bleeding: (K in article حبط:) [a verbal noun used as a subst. properly so termed:] plural عُلُوبٌ. (S, O.) Tufeyl El-Ghanawee has used لَعْب for عَلْب in this sense. (IAar, TA.)

And A rugged place; (S, O, K, TA;) as also ↓ عِلْبٌ: (K, TA:) and ↓ the latter, (O,) or each, (K, TA,) a place, (K,) or a rugged (O, TA) and hard (TA) place of the earth, (O, TA,) which, if rained upon for a long time, will not give growth (O, K, TA) to any green thing: (O, TA:) and ↓ the latter signifies also any rough and hard place of the earth. (O.)

And A hard thing; as also ↓ عَلِبٌ; (K;) each applied in this sense to flesh, or flesh-meat; the former being a verbal noun used as an epithet. (O.)