Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قِطَابٌ

Root: قطب

Full Definition

قِطَابٌ An admixture in what is drunk and what is not drunk.
2 And قِطَابُ الجَيْبِ, from القَطْبُ meaning “ the act of cutting, ” or from the same as meaning “ the act of bringing, or drawing, together ” two things, The opening that is cut out at the neck and bosom of a shirt or the like, for the head to enter into it: or the part where the two sides of that opening unite: or, as AAF says, the lower, or lowest, part of that opening.


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