عَنْبَسٌ
Root: عنبس
Full Definition
عَنْبَسٌ
The lion; as also
عُنَابِسٌ : (K: but in the O it is said, when you designate the lion, you say عَنْبَسٌ and عَنَابِسُ: [as though, by the latter, the pl. were meant: but it is probably a mistranscription for عُنَابِسٌ:]) or the lion from whom other lions flee: (TA in art. عبس:) when you particularize him by a [proper] name, you say
عَنْبَسَةُ , [i. e. The lion,] making it imperfectly decl.; like as you say أُسَامَةُ. It is mentioned by Lth and Az among quadriliteral-radical words: Hishám says, I know not whether it be a subst. or an epithet: and A'Obeyd says, it is from العُبُوسُ; and if so, it is of the measure فَنْعَلٌ: but 'Ikrimeh is related to have said that the lion is called
in the Abyssinian language. (TA voce قَسْوَرَةٌ.)
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