حنّبهُ
Root: حنب
Form: 2
Full Definition
حنّبهُII
, Verbal.Noun تَحْنِيبٌ, It bent him down. [See its quasi-pass., 5.]
2 حنّب أَزَجًا He built firmly a structure of the kind called أَزَج, and made it curved.
3 تَحْنِيبٌ [as an Verbal.Noun of which the verb, if it have one in any of the following senses, is حُنِّبَ,] also signifies A bending, or curving, and tension [of the sinews] (تَوْتِيرٌ), of the backbone (صُلْب) and fore legs of a horse: or a convexity in the shank (وَظِيف) of each of the fore legs of a horse, not being a great curvature, and in the backbone (صُلْب): it is a quality indicative of strength: تَجْنِيبٌ (with ج) is [the same] in the hind legs: or it [i. e. تحنيب as indicated in the K and by an explanation of مُحَنَّبٌ, but the same explanation is also given to مُجَنَّبٌ,] is width in the space between the hind legs, without what is termed فَجَجٌ [i. e. straddling], or فَحَجٌ [i. e. the having the fore parts of the feet near together and the heels distant, or having the legs wide apart (like فَجَجٌ), or having the thighs or the middles of the legs wide apart]; which is a quality approved: or a curving in the سَاقَانِ [here app. meaning the hind legs, or rather the hind shanks; see مُحَنَّبٌ]: as also حَنَبٌ [an Verbal.Noun of which the verb, if it have one, is app. حَنِبَ ]: or a curving of the ribs. [See تَجْنِيبٌ: and see also مُحَنَّبٌ.]
2 حنّب أَزَجًا He built firmly a structure of the kind called أَزَج, and made it curved.
3 تَحْنِيبٌ [as an Verbal.Noun of which the verb, if it have one in any of the following senses, is حُنِّبَ,] also signifies A bending, or curving, and tension [of the sinews] (تَوْتِيرٌ), of the backbone (صُلْب) and fore legs of a horse: or a convexity in the shank (وَظِيف) of each of the fore legs of a horse, not being a great curvature, and in the backbone (صُلْب): it is a quality indicative of strength: تَجْنِيبٌ (with ج) is [the same] in the hind legs: or it [i. e. تحنيب as indicated in the K and by an explanation of مُحَنَّبٌ, but the same explanation is also given to مُجَنَّبٌ,] is width in the space between the hind legs, without what is termed فَجَجٌ [i. e. straddling], or فَحَجٌ [i. e. the having the fore parts of the feet near together and the heels distant, or having the legs wide apart (like فَجَجٌ), or having the thighs or the middles of the legs wide apart]; which is a quality approved: or a curving in the سَاقَانِ [here app. meaning the hind legs, or rather the hind shanks; see مُحَنَّبٌ]: as also حَنَبٌ [an Verbal.Noun of which the verb, if it have one, is app. حَنِبَ ]: or a curving of the ribs. [See تَجْنِيبٌ: and see also مُحَنَّبٌ.]
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