قَهْبٌ
Root: قهب
Full Definition
قَهْبٌ
[and
أَقْهَبُ ] White overspread with duskiness: fem. [of the former] قَهْبَةٌ and [of the latter]
, [and]
قَهِبَةٌ is a fem. epithet having the same meaning: or white; and so
قُهَابٌ and
قُهَابِىٌّ ; or all signify thus in respect of skin, or hide: or قَهْبٌ signifies thus as an epithet applied to the young of goats and oxen, and the like thereof, and in respect of skin, or hide: and
أَقْهَبُ signifies dust-coloured with an inclining to blackness: or red with an intermixture of dust-colour: or a dusky white: or having a colour inclining to duskiness, with whiteness or blackness (مع البياض للسواد [which I suppose to be a mistake for مع البياض او السواد]).
def.2 Also [or app. جَبَلٌ قَهْبٌ] A great mountain; accord. to AA: or, accord. to him, a long mountain: pl. قِهَابٌ: or this [or جِبَالٌ قِهَابٌ?] signifies mountains of a black colour intermixed with redness.
2 And Advanced in age; applied to an elder; like قَحْبٌ and قَحْرٌ: and old in respect of origin; used in this sense by Ru-beh: or [جَمَلٌ قَهْبٌ signifies] a camel advanced in age beyond such as is termed بَازِلٌ: or a great camel.
def.2 Also [or app. جَبَلٌ قَهْبٌ] A great mountain; accord. to AA: or, accord. to him, a long mountain: pl. قِهَابٌ: or this [or جِبَالٌ قِهَابٌ?] signifies mountains of a black colour intermixed with redness.
2 And Advanced in age; applied to an elder; like قَحْبٌ and قَحْرٌ: and old in respect of origin; used in this sense by Ru-beh: or [جَمَلٌ قَهْبٌ signifies] a camel advanced in age beyond such as is termed بَازِلٌ: or a great camel.
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