لَزْبَةٌ

Adversity; difficulty; distress; (S, K;) drought: (S:) plural لِزَبٌ (IJ, K: in the CK لَزْبٌ) and لَزْبَاتٌ: (S, K:) the latter with the ز quiescent, because it is [originally] an epithet. (S.) E. g. أَصَابَتْهُمْ لَزْبَةٌ Distress and drought befell them. (S.)

سَنَةٌ لَزْبَةٌ A severe year; a year of drought. (TA.)