خِصْبٌ
1.
Abundance of herbage [or of the produce of the earth], and of the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life; (A, K;) opposite of
جَدْبٌ; (JK, S, Msb;) [fruitfulness;] increase; plenty, or abundance; (Msb:) abundance of good, or of good things: (K:) [abundant herbage, and the like:] truffles are included in the term خِصْبٌ; and also locusts, when they come after the herbage has dried up and the people are secure from being injured by them. (AHn.)
2.
بَلَدٌ خِصْبٌ and أَخْصَابٌ, (S, K,) like بَلَدٌ سَبْسَبٌ and سَبَاسِبُ &c., the singular being used [in بلد اخصاب] as a plural, as though made to consist of parts, or portions, [each termed خِصْبٌ,] (S, TA,) A country, or region, abounding with herbage [or with the produce of the earth], or with the goods, conveniences, or comforts, of life; [fruitful; or plentiful;] (S, * K;) as also
مُخْصِبٌ (S, * A, Msb, * K) and
خَصِيبٌ (S, * A, K) and
خَصِبٌ. (A, Msb. *) And أَرْضٌ خَصِبٌ and
خَصِيبَةٌ, (AHn, TA,) and أَرْضُونَ خِصْبٌ [because خِصْبٌ is originally a verbal noun] and خِصْبَةٌ and
خَصْبَةٌ, which last word is either a verbal noun used as an epithet, or a contraction of
خَصِبَةٌ, (K,) A land, and lands, abounding with herbage &c. (K, TA.)