قَرَبُوسٌ
Root: قربس
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قَرَبُوسٌ
, and قَرْبُوسٌ, but the latter is only used in poetry, by poetic license, because فَعْلُولٌ is not one of the measures of Arabic words, or, accord. to AZ, is a dial. form, and, as such, is said by MF, to be written قُرْبُوس, with damm to the ق and with the ر quiescent, but this is a mistake; [A thing] pertaining to the saddle of a horse; each of the two curved pieces of wood of the saddle of a horse, which form its fore part and its hinder part; [one answering to the pommel of our saddle, and the other being the troussequin;] together corresponding to the
شَرْخَانِ
of the [camel's saddle called] رَحْل: in the قربوس are the عَضُدَانِ, which are its two legs, that lie against, or upon, the دَفَّتَانِ, which are [the two boards that form] the inner sides of the عضدان: each قربوس has two legs (عضدان) and what are termed ذِئْبَتَانِ: then come the دفّتان, which are the two things against which comes the بَادّ of the horse; and in the دفّتان are the عِرَاقَانِ, which are the two edges of the دّفتان, at the fore part of the saddle and its hinder part: the pl. is قَرَابِيسُ. Some of the people of Syria pronounce the word with tesh-deed, [قَرَّبُوس,] which is wrong; and make its pl. قَرَبَابِيس, which is more wrong.
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