كلب

كَلَب

Canine madness or rabies-like disease, especially the madness associated with a dog that has eaten human flesh or with the bite of such a dog.

The disease is described as affecting dogs, people, and sometimes camels; associated symptoms include loss of reason, barking, refusal or fear of water, and death from thirst.

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كَلِب

A dog, person, or other animal afflicted with canine madness; a dog habituated to eating human flesh.

The adjective may describe either the diseased animal or a person affected after being bitten.

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كَلِبَ

To become angry.

A figurative development from resemblance to a dog afflicted with canine madness.

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كَلِبَ

To be light-witted, weak-minded, foolish, or deficient in intellect.

A figurative use associated with the loss of reason caused by canine madness.

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كَلِبَ

To thirst intensely.

The usage is explained through the characteristic thirst and fear of water associated with canine madness.

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كَلِبَ

To be avidly eager for or desirous of something; to rush eagerly upon it.

The expression may be used of a person or of people collectively.

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كَلِبَ

To eat voraciously without becoming satiated.

A figurative canine comparison; this is distinct from merely desiring something eagerly.

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كَلِبَ

To cry out or bark like a dog; to bark so that dogs will hear and respond.

The first use describes behavior associated with canine madness; the second is an intentional signal by a person in the desert.

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كَلِبَ

To act as a pimp.

A figurative idiom derived from the dog's role in inviting or drawing others onward.

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كَلِبَ

Of a tree: to become rough, thorny, and catching against the garments of passers-by.

The supplied explanations include both a tree retaining rough leaves for want of watering and one becoming stripped, rugged, and troublesome.

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كَلَبَ

To sew a skin by inserting a strap or thong between its edges, especially by using a doubled loop to draw through a short thong.

The term describes the sewing operation, not merely the leather implement used in it.

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كَلِبَ

To press severely upon someone or something; to become severe or intense.

Used of a strap pressing painfully, fortune or an enemy pressing upon a person, and winter or cold becoming severe.

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كَلِبَ

Of a rope: to fall between the cheek and wheel of a pulley.

A technical usage concerning the position of a rope in a pulley.

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كَلَبَهُ

To strike someone with a spur or hooked iron instrument.

The object is the implement called كُلَّاب.

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كَالَبَ

To act injuriously or contentiously toward someone; to oppose, distress, or treat someone with open hostility.

The construction evokes dogs set against one another and may express hostile contention or oppression.

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كَالَبَتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels: to feed on the thorns of trees or on dry, tough vegetation.

A specialized intransitive use concerning camels' pasture.

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أَكْلَبَ

Of camels: to become affected by canine madness or a similar disease.

The subject is a herd or the owner's camels.

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تَكَالَبَ

To rush or leap together upon something, especially in a hostile, injurious, or contentious manner.

The plural construction describes collective action; it is also equated with collective pouncing.

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اِكْتَلَبَ

To make use of a sewing thong or leather implement when sewing a skin.

A derived verbal use of the specialized sewing equipment called كُلْبَة.

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كَلْب

A wounding animal of prey, in usage that can extend beyond the ordinary barking dog.

The evidence records a lexical dispute: some authorities extend the word to predatory animals generally, while others restrict its proper signification to the dog.

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وَادِي الكَلْب

An expression for a person whom nobody cares for and who has no settled place or refuge.

An idiomatic phrase, literally referring to being in the valley of the dog.

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كِلاب

In an idiom, abusive or injurious attacks represented as dogs; to restrain such attacks is to stop reviling or annoying someone.

The phrase كَفَّ عَنْهُ كِلَابَهُ is idiomatic and does not refer literally to dogs.

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الكِلَابُ عَلَى البَقَر

A proverb about sending dogs against wild oxen, or setting one group against another without concern for the consequences.

The reported interpretation depends partly on the grammatical reading of the proverb; the lexical image is that of dogs being set upon cattle.

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كَلْب كَلِب

A fierce or furious dog.

A narrowly attested descriptive expression.

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كَلْبُ البَرّ

The wolf, literally the dog of the desert.

A fixed compound designation rather than the ordinary meaning of كَلْب alone.

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كَلْب

A lion, in a specialized classical usage.

A transferred animal name recorded separately from the ordinary dog sense.

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كَلْب

The first increase of water in a valley.

A specialized geographical or hydrological noun.

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كَلْب

A piece of iron at the head of the pivot or axis of a mill.

A technical implement term.

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كَلْب

A piece of wood used to prop or support a wall.

A technical noun for a supporting brace.

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كَلْب

A fish named for its dog-like form; in later usage, the shark.

Used in compounds such as كَلْبُ البَحْر.

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كَلْب

The extremity or projecting end of a small hill.

A specialized topographical noun.

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كَلْب

The nail in the hilt of a sword, associated with the cord or ligature attached there.

A technical term in sword construction.

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كَلْب

A strap or thong cut from an untanned hide, including one inserted between the edges of a skin when it is sewn.

The word can denote the leather strip itself, as distinct from the sewing operation performed with it.

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كَلْبُ الفَرَس

The line or streak running down the middle of a horse's back.

A fixed anatomical or descriptive expression.

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كَلْب

A bent or hooked iron attached to a camel saddle for hanging provisions and water vessels.

A travel and saddlery implement.

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كَلْب

Anything by which another thing is made firm, fast, or bound.

A generalized technical use based on the image of something holding fast.

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كَلْب

A small projecting or securing part associated with the handle of a knife or similar implement.

The supplied gloss identifies it with شَعِيرَة in this technical context.

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لِسَانُ الكَلْب

A plant called dog's tongue.

A plant name formed as a compound with كَلْب.

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كَفُّ الكَلْب

A spreading herb named dog's paw because of its appearance when dry.

The name is based on resemblance to a dog's paw.

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أُمُّ كَلْب

A small thorny tree with rough leaves and a foul smell.

The name is explained either by its thorns or by its dog-like odor when wetted by rain.

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كَلَب

Vehemence, severity, pressure, affliction, hardship, or drought.

The noun may describe severe cold or winter, pressure from a person or fortune, straitness of life, or distress caused by drought or government.

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أَرْض كَلِبَة

Dry, rugged land whose plants have withered for lack of sufficient rain.

The expression may also describe hard uncultivated ground that does not soften under seasonal rain.

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كَلِب

An importunate beggar.

A figurative characterization based on canine insistence.

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كَلِب

Of fortune: pressing severely and injuriously upon its subjects.

A figurative adjective applied to oppressive circumstances.

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كَلِب

Of a tree: rough and catching against the garments of passers-by.

This adjectival lexical item is kept distinct from the verb describing the tree's becoming rough.

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كَلْبَة

A thorny, branchless or rugged tree or plant.

The name is explained by the way its thorns catch at passing garments.

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كَلْبَتَان

The forceps used by a blacksmith to grasp hot iron.

The dual form refers to the two curved gripping parts of the implement.

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كُلْبَة

The shop of a vintner.

A specialized noun unrelated to the sewing-tool sense of the same written form.

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كُلْبَة

The hairs growing on either side of the front of a dog's or cat's nose and mouth.

The evidence distinguishes these hairs from an alternative explanation identifying them as a dog's nails.

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كُلْبَة

A doubled thong or strand of palm fibre used as a sewing implement for skins.

The thread, leather strip, or fibre is inserted through the loop to draw it through the sewing hole.

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أُمُّ كَلْبَة

Fever.

The name is explained by the fever's tenacious attachment to a person.

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الكَلْب

A star or constellation named for a dog, including Canis Major, Sirius, Canis Minor, and other stars called the shepherd's dog.

These are astronomical compounds and star names, not references to the animal.

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كِلَابُ الشِّتَاء

The stars or lunar asterisms associated with the beginning of winter.

A specialized astronomical plural expression.

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كَلَاب

The departure of reason caused by canine madness.

A verbal noun or disease-related abstract noun.

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كَلِيب

In a poetic expression, either a hostile combatant or the fierceness of war.

The supplied lexical discussion preserves both interpretations and identifies the hostile-combatant interpretation as stronger.

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كُلَّاب

A spur or iron instrument in a horseman's boot.

A hooked implement used to urge or break in a horse.

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كُلَّاب

A hooked iron flesh-hook used to remove or roast meat.

The plural كَلَالِيب is also used for such hooks.

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كَلَالِيب

The talons or hooked claws of a falcon.

A figurative plural designation based on the shape and gripping function of hooks.

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كَلَالِيب

The hooked thorns of a tree.

A figurative plural use based on their hooked shape.

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كَلْتَبَان

A pimp.

The lexical source relates the word to the pimping sense of كَلِبَ, while also noting uncertainty about its morphological analysis.

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تِكِلَّابَة

A clamorous, very noisy, very talkative woman of bad disposition.

A specialized descriptive noun.

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مُكَلَّب

A dog trained and accustomed to hunting.

This passive participle is distinct in vocalization and lexical identity from the Quranic active participle مُكَلِّب.

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مُكَلَّب

A captive or prisoner whose feet are shackled or bound.

A specialized passive-participial usage, sometimes explained as a transposed form of مُكَبَّل.

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مُتَكَالِب

A deputy or agent who acts injuriously or contentiously toward those under his authority.

A regional Yemeni appellation with a figurative hostile sense.

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أَرْض مَكْلَبَة

Land abounding in dogs.

A classical nominal formation recorded in the Quran-focused lexical discussion.

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الكَلْبَانِ

According to one reported authority, a name for two stars in Taurus.

A specialized astronomical designation reported by Freytag; Lane notes that a conflicting manuscript instead calls the close pair on Taurus's ears الكُلْيَتَانِ.

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