هَوْبٌ

Distance; remoteness. (S, K.)

تَرَكْتُهُ فِى هَوْبٍ دَابرٍ, and دَابِرٍ ↓ هُوبٍ, (S, K,) or, according to some, as stated in a marginal note in a copy of the S, in the handwriting of Aboo-Zekereeya, فى هوبِ دابرٍ, with هوب as a prefixed n., (TA,) I left him in such a place that it was not known where he was: (S, K:) هوب داير being the name of a land over which the Jinn, or genii, have obtained ascendancy: (TA:) or the correct reading is [هوت] with ت. (K.)

-A2- هَوْبٌ A stupid, or foolish, and loquacious, man: (A'Obeyd, S, K:) plural أَهْوَابٌ. (TA.)

-A3- هَوْبٌ The heat, or burning, of fire; (S, K;) and its flaming, or blazing; of the dialect of El-Yemen: also, the heat, or burning of the sun: also of the dialect of El-Yemen. (TA.)