Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَابَ, aor. يَكُوبُ; andاكتاب↓; He drank with a كُوب, the kind of mug or cup so called. (IAạr, Ḳ.)

كوّب, inf. n. يَكْوِيبٌ, He pounded, or brayed, a thing with a فِهْر [or كُوبَة, q. v.] (Ḳ.)

كُوبٌ A mug, or drinking-cup, (كُوزٌ,) without a handle: (Fr, Ṣ, Ḳ:) or one (with a round top, TA,) that has no spout: (Ḳ:) or a vessel, (Bḍ in lvi. 18,) or drinking-cup, (Jel. ibid.) having neither handle nor spout: (Bḍ, Jel. ibid.:) pl. أَكْوَابٌ. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

كَوَبٌ Slenderness of the neck with bigness of the head. (L, Ḳ.)

كَوْبَةٌ A sighing, or grief, or regret, for something that has past, or escaped one. (Ḳ.) Probably formed from the mahmooz word [كَأْبَةٌ]. (TA.) [Perhaps an inf. n.]

كُوبَةٌ, occurring in a trad., in which it is forbidden, (TA,) The game called نَرْد; (Ḳ;) an appellation given to that game by the people of El-Yemen: (AʼObeyd, on the authority of Moḥammad Ibn-Ketheer; and IAth) or that called شِطْرَنْج: (Ḳ:) or a small drum, slender in the middle: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) accord. to some, (TA,) the musical instrument called بَرْبَط; (Ḳ;) as occurring in a trad. of ʼAlee, in which a command is given to break the thing thus called. (TA.)

Also, i. q. فِهْرٌ; (Ḳ;) i. e., A small stone, such as fills the hand. (TA.)