Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَقْبَةٌ

Root: وقب

Full Definition

وَقْبَةٌ A large aperture, or hole, in a wall, in which is shade: pl. أَوْقَابٌ.
2 See وَقْبٌ.
3 وَقْبَةُ الثَّرِيدِ, and الدُّهْنِ, but the latter is a mistake, and the correct word is المُدْهُنِ, [a vase for ointment], i. q. أَنْقُوعَتُهُ, [i. e., its cavity or hollow]. Lth says, that وَقْبٌ signifies any cavity, hollow, or pit; as that in a [stone of the kind called] فِهْرٌ, and in a مُدْهُن, or مُدْهُنَة, q. v.


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