أمُّ حُبَيْنٍ
1.
A certain small beast or reptile, (S, K,) well known; (K;) the
عِظَايَة: (Mgh:) or a species of the [kind of lizards termed] عِظَاء; of stinking odour: (Msb:) so called because of the largeness of its belly; from أَحْبَنُ [q. v.]: also called
حُبَيْنَةُ; (S, Msb, K;) and sometimes the article ال is prefixed to it, (S, Msb, K,) so that it is called أُمُّ الحُبَيْنِ, (S, Msb,) by poetic license: (TA:) it is of the form of the
حِرْبَاء [or chameleon], broad in the breast, and large in the belly: (TA:) or, according to some, (TA,) it is the female of the
حِرْبَاء: (S and Msb and K in article حرب, and TA in the present article:) according to Az, it is a small reptile resembling the [kind of lizard called] ضَبّ: (Msb:) or, as some say, a certain reptile of the size of a man's hand: or, according to Ibn-Ziyád, a dust-coloured reptile, with four legs, and of the size of a frog that is not large; and when the children hunt it, they say to it,
[Umm-el-Hobeyn, spread forth thy two wings: verily the commander is looking at thee]: they hunt it until fatigue overcomes it, when it stops, standing upright upon its two kind legs, and spreads forth two wings that it has, of the same dust-colour; and when they hunt it further, it spreads forth wings that were beneath those two wings, than which nothing more beautiful in colour has been seen, yellow and red and green and white, in streaks, one above another, very many; and when it has done this, they leave it: no offspring of it is found; nor any genital organ: (TA:) the appellation أُمُّ حُبَيْنٍ is determinate, like اِبْنُ عِرْسٍ and اِبْنُ اوَى; (S, Msb;) and [so is حُبَيْنَةُ,] like أُسَامَةُ; (S;) but determinate as a generic appellation: (S, Msb:) the suppression of the article does not render it indeterminate; which is contr. to rule: (S, K:) the plural is أُمُّ حُبَيْنَاتٍ, [which is strange,] and أُمَّاتُ حُبَيْنٍ. (Msb.)انَّ الأَمِيرَ نَاظِرٌ إِلَيْكِأُمَّ الحُبَيْنِ اُنْشُرِى بُرْدَيْكِ
2.
The Arabs say, in one of their imprecations, صَبَّ اللّٰهُ عَلَيْكَ أُمَّ حُبَيْنٍ مَاخِضًا meaning (assumed tropical:) [May God pour upon thee] the night. (Ibn-Buzurj, TA in article مخص.)