مِرْبَاعٌ

and مَرْبُوعٌ:

and رَبْعٌ.

Rain that comes in the beginning of the [season called] رَبِيع: [an epithet used in this sense as a subst.:] plural مَرَابِيعُ. (S, * K, * TA, * [in which only the plural is mentioned,] and EM p. 140.) Hence, مَرَابِيعُ النُّجُومِ, as used in a verse of Lebeed cited in the first paragraph of article رزق; by the نُجُوم being meant the أَنْوَاء; (S;) i. e. the Mansions of the Moon [which by their rising or setting at dawn were supposed to bring rain or wind or heat or cold]. (EM ubi suprà.)

Applied to a place, That produces herbage in the beginning of the [season called] رَبِيع. (K, TA.)

Applied to land (أَرْضٌ): see مُرْبِعٌ.

Applied to a she-camel: see مُرْبِعٌ.