Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

حَقِبَ, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) aor. ـَ {يَحْقَبُ}, (A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) inf. n. حَقَبٌ, (Mṣb, TA,) It (a camel's urine) became suppressed: and, elliptically, (Mṣb,) he (a camel) suffered suppression of his urine, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) or had difficulty in staling, (A, Ḳ,) in consequence of the pressure of his حَقَب [or hind girth] upon his sheath, (Ṣ, A, Ḳ,) which sometimes kills the beast; as alsoاحقب↓. (TA.) And حَقِبَتْ She (a camel) suffered suppression of her milk in consequence of the pressure of the حَقَب upon her udder. (A.)

[Hence,] said of rain, (IAạr, L, Mṣb, Ḳ,), &c., (Ḳ,) ‡ It was delayed; (L, Mṣb;) was withheld; (IAạr, L, Ḳ;) as alsoاحقب↓. (TA.) And of a year (عام), ‡ Its rain was withheld. (Ṣ, R, A.) And of a mine, ‡ [It ceased to yield; or] nothing was found in it; as alsoاحقب↓. (Ḳ, TA.) And of a gift, or benefit, ‡ It became little, or ceased. (TA.) And of an affair, ‡ It became perverted, marred, or disordered, and impeded. (L.)

See also 8.

احقب He girded a camel with a حَقَب. (Ṣ.)

He made a person to ride behind him on the same beast; (A, TA;) as alsoاستحقب↓, (A,) orاحتقب↓, q. v. (TA.)

See also 1, in three places.

احتقب He bound a حَقِيبَة behind [on his camel or horse]; (Az, TA;) as alsoاستحقب↓: (Ḥam p. 289:) he bound anything behind the [camel's saddle called] رَحْل or قَتَب: (Ḳ:) he put on, or conveyed, a حقيبة behind him on his horse [or camel]; as alsoحَقَبَ↓: (Mṣb:) he carried, or conveyed, a thing behind him [on his beast]; as alsoاستحقب↓: and he made a person to ride behind him on the حقيبة. (TA.) See also 4.

[Hence,] احتقب andاستحقب↓ (Ṣ, A, Ḳ) ‡ He bore, or took upon himself the burden of, (Ṣ, A,) a thing, (Ṣ,) good, or evil; (A;) syn. اِحْتَمَلَ: (Ṣ, A:) and laid it up for the future; (A, Ḳ;) namely, good, or evil: (A:) for a man [as it were] bears his actions, and lays them up for the future [to be rewarded or punished for them]. (TA.) And hence, احتقب الإِثْمَ (Ṣ, Mṣb) † [He bore, or took upon himself the burden of, the sin; or] he committed the sin: as though it were a thing perceived by the senses, which he bore or carried [behind him]: (Mṣb:) or as though he collected it into a mass, and conveyed it behind him [as a حقيبة]. (Ṣ.)

حُقْبٌ, (A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) orحُقُبٌ↓, (Ṣ,) or the latter also, (A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) i. q. دَهْرٌ; (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ, and Bḍ in xviii. 59;) [as meaning] A long time: (Bḍ ib.:) and the former, (Ṣ,) or both, (A, Mṣb,* Ḳ,) eighty years; (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ, and Bḍ ubi suprà;) as some say: (Mṣb and Bḍ:) or more: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) or, as some say, seventy;: (Bḍ:) and a year; (A, Ḳ;) as alsoحِقْبَةٌ↓: (Ṣ, A, Ḳ:) or years: (A, Ḳ:) pl. of the former حِقَابٌ [a pl. of mult.], (Ṣ, TA,) and of the latter, (Ṣ, TA,) or former, (Mṣb,) or of both, (TA,) أَحْقَابٌ (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ) and أَحْقُبٌ [both pls. of pauc.]. (Az, Ḳ.)

حَقَبٌ A camel's hind girth; the girth that is next to the flank: (A, Ḳ:) or a rope with which a camel's saddle is bound to his belly, (Ṣ, A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) next to the sheath of his penis, in order that the fore girth may not draw it forward (Ṣ, TA) nor hurt him, (TA,) or in order that the saddle may not shift forward to his withers: (Mṣb:) pl. أَحْقَابٌ. (Mṣb.)

And A cord with which the حَقِيبَة is bound. (ISh, TA.)

See also حِقَابٌ.

In excellent she-camels, Smallness, or slenderness, of the flanks, with tenseness, or firmness, of the skin of those parts: a quality approved. (Az, TA.)

حِقْبَةٌ A period of time, (A, Mṣb, Ḳ,) undefined: (A, Ḳ:) accord. to some, i. q. حُقْبٌ: (Mṣb:) see this latter: pl. جِقَبٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and حُقُوبٌ. (Ḳ.)

حِقَابٌ A thing to which a woman hangs ornaments, and which she binds upon her waist; as alsoحَقَبٌ↓: (Ḳ:) an ornamented thing which a woman binds upon her waist: (Ṣ:) accord. to Az, like the بَرِيم, except that the latter has different-coloured threads. (TA.)

A thread, or string, that is bound upon the waist of a child to avert the evil eye. (Az, Ḳ.)

The whiteness that appears at the root of the nail. (Ḳ.)

حَقِيبَةٌ A bag, or receptacle, (A, TA,) in which a man puts his travelling-provisions; (TA;) and any other thing that is conveyed behind a man [on his beast]: (A [accord. to which this is a proper signification]:) what the rider conveys behind him: (MF [accord. to whom this is a tropical significatiom, from the same word in the last of the senses mentioned below]:) what is borne, of goods or utensils or the like, upon the horse, behind the rider: (Mṣb [accord. to which, also, this is tropical]:) anything that is bound at the hinder part of the [camel's saddle called] رَحْل or of the [saddle called] قَتَب: (Ḳ:) what is put behind the رَحْل: they used to put the coats of mail behind their رِحَال, in the [receptacles called] عِيَاب, that they might put them on in case of war: (Ḥam p. 458:) a thing like a بَرْذَعَة, [a covering for a camel's back,] of two kinds; namely, that of the [cloth called] حِلْس, which is hollowed out, so as to admit the upper part of the camel's hump; and that of the [saddle called] قَتَب, which is behind: ISh says that it (the قَتَب) is placed upon the hinder part of the camel, beneath the two hinder curved pieces of wood of the قَتَب: (TA:) a رِفَادَة [or kind of pad, or stuffed thing,] placed at the hinder part of the قَتَب: (Ḳ:) pl. حَقَائِبُ. (Ṣ, A.) You say, مَلَأَ حَقِيبَتَهُ [He filled his حقيبة]. (A.) And أَرْدَفَهُ خَلْفَهُ عَلَى الحَقِيبَةِ He made him to ride behind him on the حقيبة. (TA.)

[Hence,] ‡ A thing [of an ideal kind] that one takes upon himself, or lays up for the future [to be rewarded or punished for it]. (A.) You say, اِحْتَمَلَ حَقِيبَةَ سُوْءٍ ‡ [He took upon himself a burden of evil: as though he bound it behind him: see 8]. (A, TA.) And البِرُّ خَيْرُ حَقِيبَةٍ ‡ [Piety is the best thing that one can take upon himself, and lay up for the future to profit thereby]. (A, TA.)

[Hence also, accord. to the A, which I follow in marking this signification as tropical, but accord. to the Mṣb and to MF it is the primary signification,] ‡ The hinder parts, or posteriors, (A, Mṣb, MF, TA,) of a woman, (A, Mṣb,) and of a man: (TA:) pl. as above. (Mṣb.) So in the phrase نُفُجُ الحَقِيبَةِ ‡ Large, (A,) or prominent, (TA,) in the posteriors. (A, TA.)

حَاقِبٌ A camel suffering suppression of his urine: (Mṣb:) andحَقِبٌ↓ [signifies the same; or] a camel having difficulty in staling, in consequence of the pressure of his حَقَب [or hind girth] upon his sheath, which sometimes kills him. (A, TA.) And the former, A man who is caused to hurry by the issuing of his urine: (Mṣb:) or who requires to go to the privy (Mṣb, TA) for the discharge of his urine, (Mṣb,) [or to evacuate his bowels,] and does it not until he suffers constipation: (Mṣb, TA:) or one suffering constipation. (Mṣb.) [See an ex. voce حَاقِنٌ.]

أَحْقَبُ A wild ass having a whiteness in the belly: (Ḳ:) or white in the part where the kind girth (حَقَب) would be placed: (A, Ḳ:) the former is the more approved meaning: (TA:) or a wild ass; so called because white in the flanks: (Ṣ:) fem. حَقْبَآءُ: (Ṣ, A:) pl. حُقْبٌ. (A.)

Also حَقْبَآءُ A قارة [or small isolated mountain], (Ṣ, Ḳ,) slender, (TA,) rising high into the sky, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) of which the flanks, or middle parts, (الحَقْوَانِ,) are enveloped by the mirage (السَّرَاب, so in the Ḳ accord. to the TA), or by dust (التُّرَاب, accord. to the CK and a MṢ. copy of the Ḳ): or حَقْبَآءُ, (Ḳ,) or قَارَةٌ حَقْبَآءُ, (TA,) signifies a قارة having, in its middle part, dust of a whitish hue (أَعْفَرُ), with بُرْقَة [app. meaning a mixture of blackness and whiteness] of the rest. (Ḳ, TA.)

مُحْقَبٌ Made to ride behind another on the same beast. (Ṣ.)

Bound upon the [حَقِيبَة or] حَقَائِب. (Ḥam p. 289.)

The fox: (Ḳ:) so called because of the whiteness of his belly. (TA.)

مُحْقِبٌ One who makes another to ride behind him on the same beast. (Ḳ.)

Hence, in a trad., المُحْقِبُ النَّاسَ دِيَنَهُ † He who makes his religion to follow that of others, without evidence, proof, or consideration. (TA.)