Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تَحْدِيبٌ

Root: حدب

Form: 2

Full Definition

تَحْدِيبٌII [Verbal.Noun of حدّب] The act of elevating, or raising high, the back.
2 [And, accord. to Golius, as on the authority of the KL, The making a thing gibbous, or convex: but this meaning which the word has in the present day, I do not find in my copy of the KL.]


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