كبب

كَبَّ

To invert or turn an object over, especially a vessel so that its contents pour out.

Used of turning a vessel, bowl, or other object onto its opening or face.

• Lane · entry 27734

كَبَّ

To cut or wound a camel in the legs.

• Lane · entry 27734

كَبَّ

To wind or convolve thread, hair, or similar material into a ball or compact mass.

A tropical or extended usage; the resulting ball is كُبَّةٌ.

• Lane · entry 27734

كَبَّ

To be weighty or heavy.

• Lane · entry 27734

كَبَّ

To kindle or set fire to the plant called كُبّ.

• Lane · entry 27734

كَبَّبَ

To make كباب: small pieces of meat cut up and roasted or broiled.

A tropical Form II usage; the food is commonly meat roasted over coals or on skewers.

• Lane · entry 27735

أَكَبَّ

To bend or incline oneself downward toward a thing.

Commonly construed with عَلَى or with a directional complement.

• Lane · entry 27736

أَكَبَّ

To fall, especially after stumbling, or to fall prostrate or prone.

The lexical evidence places the stumbling usage alongside the prostrate or face-down usage.

• Lane · entry 27736

أَكَبَّ

To set oneself to a task and persist or adhere to it.

Used with عَلَى and an affair, work, or activity.

• Lane · entry 27736

تَكَبَّبَتِ الإِبِلُ

For camels to become prostrated by disease or emaciation.

The subject is conventionally camels in the cited expression.

• Lane · entry 27737

تَكَبَّبَ

To become contracted and compact, especially through moisture.

Used of sand or similar material becoming a compact mass.

• Lane · entry 27737

تَكَبَّبَ

To wrap oneself up in a garment.

A tropical usage describing someone bundled or enveloped in clothing.

• Lane · entry 27737

تَكَابُّوا

To press or crowd together upon something.

A reciprocal Form VI construction with عَلَى.

• Lane · entry 27738

اِنْكَبَّ

To become inverted or turned down so as to pour out contents.

Used of a jug or similar vessel.

• Lane · entry 27739

كَبْكَبَ

To turn or throw something over, one part upon another, or to throw it from a height.

The reduplicated Form I expresses repeated or successive overturning.

• Lane · entry 27740

كَبْكَبَ

To throw into a deep place or hollow, with the object tumbling, turning over, or piling upon others.

This meaning is attested in the Quranic expression فَكُبْكِبُوا فِيهَا; no modern verse location is assigned here because the supplied QAC locations do not include that form.

• Lane · entry 27740

كَبْكَبَ

To collect scattered property or animals by bringing its dispersed parts together.

Used of gathering camels or other wealth by driving them together.

• Lane · entry 27740

تَكَبْكَبُوا

To collect themselves together.

A collective or reflexive reduplicated construction.

• Lane · entry 27741

كُبّ

A plant or tree of the ḥamḍ vegetation, useful for kindling.

The entry also records a possible identification with a kind of wild grass.

• Lane · entry 27742

كَبَّةٌ

A forceful charge, onset, impetus, or assault, and the vehemence of such an action.

Used of fighting, a collision or charge between troops or horses, the release of horses to charge or race, the vehemence of winter, and a dash of hellfire.

• Lane · entry 27743

كَبَّةٌ

A throwing into a deep place or hollow.

• Lane · entry 27743

كُبَّةٌ

A collected or piled-together mass of dust, earth, or other material.

• Lane · entry 27744

كُبَّةٌ

A ball or compact convolution of spun thread or hair.

The plural is كُبَبٌ.

• Lane · entry 27744

كُبَّةٌ

A congregated company, troop, or main body, especially of horses or men.

Can denote the greater number or principal body of a troop.

• Lane · entry 27744

كُبَّةٌ

A herd of large camels.

• Lane · entry 27744

كُبَّةٌ

A family or household dependent upon someone.

Used in the expression عَلَيْهِ كُبَّةٌ.

• Lane · entry 27744

كُبَّةٌ

Pressing or crowding together.

• Lane · entry 27744

كُبَّةٌ

Weight or bulk imposed upon someone.

Used figuratively in the expression أَلْقَى عَلَيْهِ كُبَّتَهُ, ‘he threw his weight upon him.’

• Lane · entry 27744

كَبَابٌ

Small pieces of meat roasted or broiled over burning coals.

The lexical evidence notes that the word may be Persian in origin.

• Lane · entry 27745

كُبَابٌ

A great number of camels, sheep, or goats packed so closely that they mount one another.

Also used adjectivally of an exceptionally numerous herd.

• Lane · entry 27746

كُبَابٌ

Dust, earth, adhesive mud, clay, or moist sand compacted into a mass.

The material is especially described as moist, cleaving, or compact through moisture.

• Lane · entry 27746

كَبَابَةٌ

A medicinal substance from China, identified with cubeb.

• Lane · entry 27747

كِبْكِبٌ

A particular traditional Arab game.

• Lane · entry 27748

كُبْكُبٌ

A man of compact and strong build.

• Lane · entry 27749

كَبْكَابٌ

An excellent variety of thick dates.

• Lane · entry 27752

كُبْكُوبٌ

A closely congregated body of men.

• Lane · entry 27753

كَبْكَابَةٌ

A fat or corpulent woman.

The lexical entry explicitly uses the feminine human noun.

• Lane · entry 27754

أَكَبُّ

A person who is constantly stumbling.

Used in the expression رَجُلٌ أَكَبُّ.

• Lane · entry 27755

مِكَبٌّ

One who looks frequently toward the ground.

• Lane · entry 27756

مُكَبَّبَةٌ

A dust-coloured wheat with thick ears and thick straw.

The cited variety is described as fodder whose eaters do not become brisk or sprightly.

• Lane · entry 27757

كَوْكَبٌ

A prominent gathered mass or shining body; specifically the main body of water, a visible star, or a gleaming mass or flash.

The lexical discussion also applies it to a boy nearing adolescence because his bodily form is becoming gathered or developed, and to the gleam of a military troop.

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• Mufradāt · row 1229