حَبَقٌ

[The mentha pulegium of Linn., or pennyroyal; so generally called in the present day, in Egypt and other countries; according to Golius, applied by the Moors and Egyptians to ocimum (i. e. basil), which, he says, the Easterns call حبق النبطى; but he should have said الحَبَقُ النَّبَطِىُّ, which see below;] a certain plant of sweet odour, (K,) of sharp flavour, the leaves whereof are like those of the خِلَاف [q. v.] ; of which one kind grows in the plains, and another on the mountains; not depastured; (TA;) called in Persian الفُوتَنْجُ, (K, in the CK الفُوتَنَجُ,) or الفُوذَنْجُ, (S,) or Pُودِينَهْ: (TA:) AHn says, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, that it is a cause of diminishing the seminal fluid; that the horse rolls upon it and it diminishes his seminal fluid; and it is put into the pillow which is placed beneath the head of a man and it diminishes his seminal fluid: (TA:) it resembles the sweet-smelling plant called the نَمَّام [q. v., in the CK, erroneously, ثُمام]; (K, * TA;) and grows abundantly by water: (TA:) [a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة: and] plural حِبَاقٌ. (IKh, TA.)

حَبَقُ المَاءِ and حَبَقُ التِّمْسَاحِ [Mentha aquatica, or water-mint,] الفُوتَنْجُ النَّهْرِىُّ; (K;) so called because it grows upon the sides of rivers, and because the crocodile eats of it much. (TA.)

حَبَقُ القَنَا, or حَبَقُ الفِيلِ, [Marjoram, sweet marjoram,] المَرْزَنْجُوشُ. (K.)

حَبَقُ الرَّاعِى [Common artemisia, or mugwort,] البِرِنْجَاسَفُ [or البَرَنْجَاسَفُ]. (K, TA: in the CK البِرِنْجَاسَفُ.)

حَبَقُ البَقَرِ [Chamomile] البَابُونَجُ. (K.)

حَبَقُ الشُّيُوخِ [Marum; so called in the present day;] المَرْوُ; (K;) also called رَيْحَانُ الشُّيُوخِ. (TA.)

الحَبَقُ الصَّعْتَرِىُّ and الحَبَقُ الكَرْمَانِىُّ [Basilroyal] الشَّاهِسْفَرَمُ [from the Persian شَاهْ سِفَرَمْ or شَاهْ سِPَرَمْ &c.]; (K, TA; in the CK الشّاهَسْفَرَمُ;) which is the Sultán of the رَيَاحِين; also called الرَّيْحَانُ المُطْلَقُ; and which is sown in houses. (TA.)

الحَبَقُ القَرَنْفُلِىُّ [Common clinopodium, or wild basil,] الفَرَنْجَمُشْكَ; (K, TA; in the CK الفَرَنْجَمُشْكَ;) [a word of Persian origin,] meaning the musk of the Franks. (TA.)

الحَبَقُ النَّبَطِىُّ, i. e. رَيْحَانُ الحَمَاحِمُ [which is Garden-basil: الحَمَاحِمُ is said in the K, article حم, to be الحَبَقُ البُسْتَانِىُّ, with wide leaves; also called الحَبَقُ النَّبَطِىُّ]. (TA.)

حَبَقُ تُرُنْجَانٍ [Melissa, citrago, balm-mint, or balm-gentle,] الباذرنجبويه. (TA.)

الحَبَقُ الرَّيْحَانِىُّ What is eaten of المُقْلُ المَكِّىُّ [see article مقل]. (K.)