سَبَلَةٌ

Also (assumed tropical:) The شَارِب [or mustache]: (S:) or the دَايءِرَة [or small protuberance termed حِثْرِمَة, q. v.,] in the middle of the upper lip: or the hair that is upon [apparently meaning of] the شَارِب; (M, K;) whence the saying, طَالَتْ سَبَلَتُكَ فَقُصَّهَا [thy hair of the mustache has become long, therefore clip it]; and it is tropical: (TA:) or the extremity of that hair: (M, K:) or the two mustaches together: (M, K: *) or what is upon the chin, to the extremity of the beard: or the fore part of the beard: (M, K:) or what hangs down, of, or from, the fore part of the beard: (Zj, in his “ Khalk el-Insán: ”) or, according to Az, it signifies, with the Arabs, the fore part of the beard, and what hangs down thereof, or therefrom, upon the breast: or, according to IDrd, some of them apply it to the extremity of the beard; and some, to the hair of the mustache that hangs down on the beard: in a tradition, in which it is said that he [Mohammad] was full in the سَبَلَة, Az says that it means the hairs beneath the lower jaw: according to AZ, it is what appears, of the fore part of the beard, after [or exclusive of] the hair of the side of each cheek and the عُثْنُون [here apparently meaning the portion of the beard next the front of the throat], and what is concealed [thereof]: (TA:) or, according to Th, the beard altogether: (M:) the plural is سِبَالٌ, (S, K,) [to which ة is sometimes added, agreeably with a common license, as appears from an example in what follows,] and سَبَلَاتٌ, occurring in the saying, إِنَّهُ لَذُو سَبَلَاتٍ, mentioned by Lh, in which the term سَبَلَة is made to apply to every separate portion [so that the meaning is, Verily he has a سَبَلَة]. (M.) One says, of enemies, هُمْ صُهْبُ السِّبَالِ (assumed tropical:) [They are red, or reddish, in respect of the mustaches, &c.: see article صهب]. (TA.) And of a man who has come threatening, one says, جَاءَ فُلَانٌ وَ قَدْ نَشَرَ سَبَلَتَهُ (tropical:) [Such a one came having spread out his mustache, &c.]. (K, * TA.) And in a tradition respecting Dhu-th-Thudeiyeh, [see article ثدى,] it is said, عَلَيْهِ شُعَيْرَاتٌ مِثْلُ سِبَالَةِ السِّنَّوْرِ [apparently meaning (assumed tropical:) Having upon him small hairs like the whiskers of the cat]. TA.)

سَبَلَةُ البَعِيرِ means (assumed tropical:) The part of the camel, in which he is stabbed, or stuck, in the uppermost part of the breast; (T, M;) called also the تَرِيبَة: (T:) or the fur that flows down upon that part of the camel. (M, K. [In the CK, مَنْخَرِه is erroneously put for مَنْحَرِهِ.]) You say لَتَبَ فِى سَبَلَةِ النَّاقَةِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) He stabbed, or stuck, the she-camel in the part above mentioned: (M in article لتب: [in the K, in the present article, كَتَبَ is erroneously put, in this phrase, in the place of لَتَبَ:]) Az heard an Arab of the desert say لَتَمَ فِى سَبَلَةِ بَعِيرِهِ, [which means the same as لَتَبَ,] and he supposes the سَبَلَة to be hairs in the part above mentioned. (TA.) You say also, بَعِيرٌ حَسَنُ السَّبَلَةِ, meaning (assumed tropical:) [A camel goodly in respect of] the thinness of his skin (جِلْدِهِ): so in the O and K: but according to the T, of his cheek (خَدِّهِ); and this is probably the right explanation. (TA.)