هِنْدَبٌ

(S, K, a word of a rare measure, TA,) and ↓ هِنْدَبَاءٌ (K: [but it is not there said whether it be imperfectly or perfectly declinable: according to Ibn-Buzurj, as mentioned in the TA, it is feminine, and therefore imperfectly decl.: but from the ns. an. given below, it appears to be masculine, and perfectly decl.: probably, therefore, all the forms of the word ending with long or short alif may be correctly pronounced without, and with, tenween:]) and ↓ هِنْدَبَّى (ISk, S, Msb) and هِنْدِبَاءٌ and هِنْدِبًى; (Az, S, K, Msb;) but the word which is used by most of the Arabs of the desert is the first: (Az;) IKt only mentions the third form: (Msb:) also ↓ هَنْدَبَاةٌ, (S;) or [هندبى and هندباء are coll. gen. ns., and] هِنَدَبَاةٌ is a n. un., (AHn, K,) as also هندباءة: (AHn, TA:) A certain leguminous plant, (S, K,) well known, (K,) of the description termed أَحْرَار; [i. e., of a slender and soft nature, and eaten crude;) (TA;) [lichorium, intybus and endivia; wild and garden-succory, and endive: also called in the present day شكُوريَة] a plant of middling temperament, (مُعْتَدِلَةٌ,) useful for the stomach and the liver and the spleen, when eaten: and for the sting of a scorpion, when applied externally, with its roots: he who cooks it errs more than he who washes it [and so uses it]. (K.) F mentions the names of this plant in aro. هندب, as though the ن were a radical letter, which noone asserts it to be: J [and others], in article هدب. (TA.)