صُبَّةٌ

A quantity of wheat or food, &c., that is poured out or forth (M, K) together, or collectedly; (M;) also (M, K) sometimes (M) termed ↓ صُبٌّ. (M, K.) See also 1, near the beginning.

And A سُفْرَة [or piece of skin in which the traveller puts his food; or the thing upon which one eats]; (M, K;) so called because the food is poured into it, or upon it: (M:) or a thing like the سُفْرَة: (M, K:) and صُنَّةٌ, with ن, signifies the same. (M.)

See also صُبَابَةٌ, with which it is synonym

Also A company of men: (M, Msb, K:) [apparently tropical; but it is said that] this is the primary meaning, and it is used in relation to camels, and sheep or goats, and the like, tropically. (TA.)

(tropical:) A detached number of horses, (S, M, A, Msb, K,) and of camels, (A, K,) and of sheep or goats, (A, Msb, K,) and of dirhems, or pieces of money: (A:) or from ten to forty: (A, K:) or from twenty to thirty and forty of camels and of sheep or goats: or less than a hundred (M, A, K) of camels: (M, K:) or of camels i. q. صِرْمَةٌ: (S:) and from ten to forty of goats: (AZ, S:) or a flock of sheep or a herd of goats, as being likened to a company of men: (TA:) or from twenty to forty of sheep and of goats; or peculiarly of goats: or about fifty: or from sixty to seventy: and of camels about five or six: (IAth, TA:) and a collection of dirhems, or pieces of money, and of wheat, or food, &c.: and a piece of a thing: (Msb:) [or] a small quantity or portion of wealth or property. (M, K.)

And (assumed tropical:) A part, or portion, of the night: so in the saying, مَضَتْ صُبَّةٌ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ (assumed tropical:) [A part, or portion, of the night passed]. (S.)