Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قِطِبَّى

Root: قطب

Full Definition

قِطِبَّى A certain plant, of which is made rope of twisted strands, or well-twisted rope, resembling that of the cocoa-nut, the price of which mounts to a hundred deenárs of ready money, and which is better than that made of the fibres of the cocoa-nut.


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