ه • ب • ث

, aor. هَبُثَ , inf. n. هَبْثٌ, He scattered, or squandered, his property. (L.)

A severe, difficult, or afflictive, affair: (S, K:) pl. هَنَابِثُ: the ن is an augmentative letter. (TA.) The pl. also signifies calamities: and confused affairs and news. (TA.) Also, Confusion in speech, or, in what is said: (S, K:) [probably an inf. n, of which the verb is هَنْبَثَ].