Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

زَقَبَهُ فِى جُحْرِهِ, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,*) and فِى الكُوَّةِ, (TA,) He made him (a field-rat, Ṣ, TA) to enter [into his hole, and into the aperture in a wall]. (Ṣ, Ḳ, TA.)

See also 7.

زقّب, (AZ, TA,) inf. n. تَزْقِيبٌ, (AZ, Ḳ, TA,) He (the bird called مُكَّآء) sent forth his voice, or cry. (AZ, Ḳ.)

انزقب He entered (T, Ṣ, Ḳ) into his hole, (JK, Ṣ, Ḳ,) said of a field-rat; (JK, Ṣ;) as alsoزَقَبَ↓; (Ḳ;) or into a thing; as also انزبق: (T, TA:) or he entered into it and concealed himself. (IḲṭṭ, TA in art. نمس.)

زَقَبٌ, (Ḳ,) and طَرِيقٌ زَقَبٌ, (Lḥ, Ṣ,) [in which the latter word may be either a substitute for the former or an epithet,] A narrow road or way: (Lḥ, Ṣ, Ḳ:) pl. زُقُبٌ: (TA:) and n. un. with ة {زَقَبَةٌ}; or this and the pl. are alike. (Ḳ, TA.) The phrase مَطَارِبٌ زَقَبٌ occurs in a verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb cited voce مَطْرَبٌ; [the former word being with tenween for the sake of the measure;] or, as some relate it, زُقُبٌ: (Ṣ, TA:) in this instance, زقب is a substitute for مطارب: or, accord. to AʼObeyd, مطارب signifies narrow roads or ways, and زقب signifies narrow: (TA:) or طَرِيقٌ زَقَبٌ signifies an obscure narrow road or way. (JK.)

One says also, رَمَيْتُهُ مِنْ زَقَبٍ, meaning I threw, or shot, at him, or it, from a near spot. (JK, Ḳ.)