Full Definition
إِبْرَةٌ
A needle; an iron
مِسَلَّة: pl. إِبَرٌ and إِبَارٌ.
2 The sting, or extremity of the tail, of a scorpion; as also
مِئْبَرٌ ; of which latter the pl. is مَآبِرُ: and of a bee.
3 The extremity of a horn.
4 The [privy] member of a man.
5 إِبْرَةٌ الذِّرَاعِ The extremity of the elbow; the extremity of the
ذِرَاع [here meaning the ulna] of the arm, from which the measurer by the cubit measures; [this being always done from the extremity of the elbow;] the extremity of the bone from which the measurer by the cubit measures: the extremity of the os humeri which is next to the elbow is called the قَبِيح; and the زُجّ of the elbow is between the قبيح and the ابرة الذراع: or a small bone, the head of which is large, and the rest slender, compactly joined to the
قبيح: (TA voce قبيح:) or the slender part of the
ذراع: or small bone, which latter is the right reading, even with the extremity of the
زَنْد [which is applied to the ulna and to the radius] of, or from, (من,) the
ذراع [or fore arm] to the extremity of the finger.
6 الإبْرَةُ also signifies The bone of what is termed
وَتَرَةُ [i. e. of the heel-tendon of a man, or of the hock of a beast], which is a small bone adhering to the
كَعْب [i. e. to the ankle or to the hock]: and [app. more correctly “or”] the slender part of the
عرقوب [or hock] of the horse: in the عرقوبان [or two hocks] are [what are termed] إِبْرَتَانِ, which are the external extremity of each hock.
7 See also مِئْبَرَةٌ.
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