جَأْبٌ
1.
Thick, gross, big, or bulky: (S, K:) or strong: (A:) applied to an ass, (A, K,) or to a wild ass: (S, K:) as also جَابٌ, without ء: (S:) plural جُوءُوبٌ. (TA.) Accord. to the K [and the A], it signifies also Whatever is rude, or coarse; thick, gross, big, or bulky: (كُلُّ جَافٍ غَلِيظٍ:) but in the L, we find كَاهِلٌ جَأْبٌ غَلِيظٌ [meaning that جَأْبٌ applied to the part of the back termed كاهل signifies thick, or big]: and خَلْقٌ جَأْبٌ as meaning a thick, gross, big, or bulky, make. (TA.)
3.
And جَأْبَةُ المِدْرَى, (S, A, K,) or, according to AO (S) and the Mj (TA) and Sh, (TA in article جوب q. v.,) without ء, (S, TA,) A doe-gazelle having her horn just come forth; because the horn when it first comes forth is thick, and afterwards becomes slender; (S, K;) thus showing her to be young: (S:) or a doe-gazelle, and a cow, strong in the horn. (A.) [See also article جوب.]
4.
You say also, فُلَانٌ شَخْتُ الالِ جَأْبُ
الصَّبْرِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is slender in body, or person, [but] great in patience. (S.)
5.
The navel. (K.)