Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

هَرْدَبَ, inf. n. هَرْدَبَةٌ, (and هردب, TA, [a strange form: perhaps a mistake for هَرْدَابٌ or هِرْدَابٌ:]) He ran heavily. (IḲṭṭ, &c., and Ḳ.)

هِرْدَبَّةٌ (and هِرْدَبٌّ, TA) An old woman. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

Also, (as some say, TA,) Having a swollen belly, and cowardly: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or cowardly, bulky, of little sense, swollen in the belly, and having no heart. (TA.)

Accord. to Az, in the T, A large, long-bodied man is called هِرْدَبَّةٌ. (TA.)