Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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كِرْبَاسٌ

كِرْبَاسٌ A coarse garment or pieces of cloth: (Mṣb:) or coarse garments or pieces of cloth: (Ṣ: [but this explanation is omitted in some copies:]) or a garment or piece of cloth of white cotton: (Ḳ:) and so كِرْبَاسَةٌ: (TA:) or the latter is a more particular term: (Ṣ:) [i. e., the former is a coll. gen. n., and the latter is the n. un.:] a Persian word arabicized; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) originally with fet-ḥ, [كَرْبَاس,] altered because of the rareness of the measure فَعْلَالٌ, (Ḳ,) in the cases of words not reduplicative: (TA:) [or from כַרְפַס, (see Est. i. 6,) whence also كُرْفُسٌ, and κάρπασος, and carbasus:] pl. كَرَابِيسُ. (Ṣ, Mṣb.)


كَرَابِيسِىٌّ

كَرَابِيسِىٌّ A seller of كَرَابِيس: (Mṣb:) a rel. n., app. likened to أنْصَارِىٌّ; for otherwise, by rule, it should be كِرْبَاسِىٌّ. (Lth, Ḳ.)


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