Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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كن كنب كنبت


1. ⇒ كنب

كَنَبَ, aor. ـُ {يَكْنُبُ}, inf. n. كُنُوبٌ; andاكنب↓; He, or it, was, or became, gross; thick, coarse; or rough: syn. غَلُظَ. (Ḳ.) See 4.

Root: كنب - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

كَنَبَ He was, or became, possessed of plenty, or riches: syn. اِسْتَغْنَى. (Ḳ.)

Root: كنب - Entry: 1. Signification: A3

كَنَبَهُ فِى جِرَابِهِ, aor. ـِ {يَكْنِبُ}, inf. n. كَنْبٌ, He stowed it, or deposited it, in his provision-bag. (Ḳ.)


4. ⇒ اكنب

أَكْنَبَتْ يَدُهُ; andكَنِبَتْ↓, aor. ـَ {يَكْنَبُ}, inf. n. كَنَبٌ; (Ḳ;) or the former verb only is used; not the latter; (Aṣ, Ṣ;) His hand was, or became, callous, or hard, (Ṣ,) or coarse, or rough, (Ḳ,) by reason of work. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) See 1.

Root: كنب - Entry: 4. Signification: A2

اكنب لِسَانُهُ His tongue was impeded, or tied up. (Ḳ.)

Root: كنب - Entry: 4. Signification: A3

اكنب عَلَيْهِ بَطْنُهُ His belly [meaning its contents] oppressed him, or gave him pain: syn. إِشْتَدَّ. (Ḳ.)


كَنَبٌ

كَنَبٌ Callousness, or hardness, of the hand, resulting from work: (Ṣ:) or coarseness, or roughness, of the foot, and of the hoof, and of the camel's foot, and of the hand: or of the hand only, resulting from work. (Ḳ.)

Root: كنب - Entry: كَنَبٌ Dissociation: B

كَنِبٌ

كَنِبٌ, of the same measure as كَتِفٌ, (Ḳ,) orكَنَبٌ↓, (as in the copies of the Ṣ in my hands) A certain plant: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a certain tree: (Lth:) AḤn says, It resembles the قَتَاد growing in our country, where, sometimes, sandals or shoes are sewed with its bark, and thereof are twisted ropes which endure moisture, day-dew, or rain: and in one place he says, I asked one of the Arabs of the desert respecting the كنب, and he shewed me a scattered, small, thorny plant, with white twigs or branches, abounding with thorns, having, at the extremities, بَرَاعِيم [or calyxes, or flowers, or flower-buds,] from each of which grew forth three thorns. (TA.)


كِنَابٌ

كِنَابٌ i. q. شِمْرَاخٌ [i. e. the fruit-stalk of the raceme of a palm tree]. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)


كَنِيبٌ

كَنِيبٌ What is dry, of trees: or having its thorns broken. (Ḳ.)


كُنْتُبٌ

كُنْتُبٌ and كُنَاتِبٌ Short: (Ḳ:) or thick, or coarse, and short: (TA:) or hard and strong: (see كُنْتثُبٌ:) but the ث is augmentative, (TA,) [and therefore the proper art. is كنب].


كَانِبٌ

كَانِبٌ Full to satiety; glutted with food. (Ḳ.)


مُكْنَبٌ / مِكْنَبٌ

مُكْنَبٌ and مِكْنَبٌ: see next paragraph.


مُكْنِبٌ

مُكْنِبٌ andمِكْنَبٌ↓ A coarse, or rough, hoof; (IAạr, Ḳ;) and the same words, andمُكْنَبٌ↓, the same as applied to a camel's foot. (IAạr)


مُكْنَئِبٌّ

مُكْنَئِبٌّ Thick, or coarse, and strong, and short. (Ḳ)


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