سَبْسَبٌ
1.
A desert; or a desert in which is no water, or in which is neither water nor herbage; synonym مَفَازَةٌ (S, K) and قَفْرٌ: (TA:) or a tract of land level and far-extending: (M, K:) or a [desert such as is termed] قَفْر
that is far-extending, whether level or not level, rugged or not rugged, without water and without any one to cheer by his presence: (ISh, TA:) or a land affected with drought, barrenness, or dearth: (Aboo-Kheyreh, TA:) and بَسْبَسٌ signifies the same: (TA:) plural سَبَاسِبُ: (M, TA:) A 'Obeyd explains سَبَاسِبُ and بَسَابِسُ as synonym with
قِفَارٌ, [plural of قَفْرٌ]. (TA.) One says also بَلَدٌ سَبْسَبٌ, (S, (K,) [using the latter word as an epithet;] and بَلَدٌ سَبَاسِبُ, (Lh, S, M, K,) thus using the plural as though he termed every part of the بَلَد a سَبْسَب; (Lh, M;) or the plural is added to give intensiveness to the meaning: (IAth, TA voce بَلْقَعٌ, q. v.:) but some say
سُبَاسِبٌ, with damm; and this is more common, because it is a singular epithet. (MF, TA.)
2.
Also i. q.
سَاسَبٌ [or سَيْسَبٌ (q. v. in article سسب), if not a mistranscription for this last], i. e. A kind of tree, from which arrows, or, as in the book of AHn, camels' saddles (رِحَال), are made: Ru-beh says, [according to one reading, another being given in article سسب, q. v.,]
[She went, and he went, like the rod of the sebsáb, meaning, the arrow]; in which the last word is a dialect var. of السَّبْسَب, or the ا is inserted by poetic license. (TA.)