Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

كَنَبَ, aor. ـُ {يَكْنُبُ}, inf. n. كُنُوبٌ; andاكنب↓; He, or it, was, or became, gross; thick, coarse; or rough: syn. غَلُظَ. (Ḳ.) See 4.

كَنَبَ He was, or became, possessed of plenty, or riches: syn. اِسْتَغْنَى. (Ḳ.)

كَنَبَهُ فِى جِرَابِهِ, aor. ـِ {يَكْنِبُ}, inf. n. كَنْبٌ, He stowed it, or deposited it, in his provision-bag. (Ḳ.)

أَكْنَبَتْ يَدُهُ; andكَنِبَتْ↓, aor. ـَ {يَكْنَبُ}, inf. n. كَنَبٌ; (Ḳ;) or the former verb only is used; not the latter; (Aṣ, Ṣ;) His hand was, or became, callous, or hard, (Ṣ,) or coarse, or rough, (Ḳ,) by reason of work. (Ṣ, Ḳ.) See 1.

اكنب لِسَانُهُ His tongue was impeded, or tied up. (Ḳ.)

اكنب عَلَيْهِ بَطْنُهُ His belly [meaning its contents] oppressed him, or gave him pain: syn. إِشْتَدَّ. (Ḳ.)

كَنَبٌ Callousness, or hardness, of the hand, resulting from work: (Ṣ:) or coarseness, or roughness, of the foot, and of the hoof, and of the camel's foot, and of the hand: or of the hand only, resulting from work. (Ḳ.)

See كَنِبٌ.

كَنِبٌ, of the same measure as كَتِفٌ, (Ḳ,) orكَنَبٌ↓, (as in the copies of the Ṣ in my hands) A certain plant: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a certain tree: (Lth:) AḤn says, It resembles the قَتَاد growing in our country, where, sometimes, sandals or shoes are sewed with its bark, and thereof are twisted ropes which endure moisture, day-dew, or rain: and in one place he says, I asked one of the Arabs of the desert respecting the كنب, and he shewed me a scattered, small, thorny plant, with white twigs or branches, abounding with thorns, having, at the extremities, بَرَاعِيم [or calyxes, or flowers, or flower-buds,] from each of which grew forth three thorns. (TA.)

كِنَابٌ i. q. شِمْرَاخٌ [i. e. the fruit-stalk of the raceme of a palm tree]. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

كَنِيبٌ What is dry, of trees: or having its thorns broken. (Ḳ.)

كُنْتُبٌ and كُنَاتِبٌ Short: (Ḳ:) or thick, or coarse, and short: (TA:) or hard and strong: (see كُنْتثُبٌ:) but the ث is augmentative, (TA,) [and therefore the proper art. is كنب].

كَانِبٌ Full to satiety; glutted with food. (Ḳ.)

مُكْنِبٌ andمِكْنَبٌ↓ A coarse, or rough, hoof; (IAạr, Ḳ;) and the same words, andمُكْنَبٌ↓, the same as applied to a camel's foot. (IAạr)

مُكْنَئِبٌّ Thick, or coarse, and strong, and short. (Ḳ)