قَبِيحٌ
Root: قبح
Full Definition
قَبِيحٌ
Bad, evil, abominable, foul, unseemly, unsightly, ugly, or hideous; contr. of
حَسَنٌ; applied to a form, and to an action, and to anything: pl. قِبَاحٌ and قَبَاحَى and قَبْحَى: fem. قَبِيحَةٌ; pl. قَبَائِحُ and قِبَاحٌ.
2 نَاقَةٌ قَبِيحَةٌ الشُّخْبِ A she-camel having wide orifices to her teats.
3 القَبِيحُ [is said to signify] The extremity of the bone of the elbow; so in the T; and the إِبْرَة is another small bone, the head of which is large, and the rest of it small, [the former, i. e. the head.] compactly joined to the قَبِيح: or [it is more correctly expl. as] the extremity of the bone of the upper half of the arm, next the elbow; the extremity next the shoulderjoint being called الحَسَنُ, because of the abundance of the flesh that is upon it: or the lower part of the upper half of the arm; the upper part being called الحَسَنُ: or the قَبِيحَانِ are the two slender ends that are at the heads of the ذِرَاعَانِ [here meaning the two bones of the fore arm; or the قَبِيح is the place of junction [of the bones] of the shank and the thigh, which are termed قَبِيحَانِ; and it is also called القَبَاحُ : accord. to A'Obeyd, كِسْرُ قَبِيحٍ, which is composed of two syn. words, one prefixed to the other, governing it in the gen. case, signifies the bone of the سَاعِد [here meaning the upper half of the arm] from the part next the middle to the elbow. (L, TA; and thus it is expl. in the S and K in art. كسر.)
2 نَاقَةٌ قَبِيحَةٌ الشُّخْبِ A she-camel having wide orifices to her teats.
3 القَبِيحُ [is said to signify] The extremity of the bone of the elbow; so in the T; and the إِبْرَة is another small bone, the head of which is large, and the rest of it small, [the former, i. e. the head.] compactly joined to the قَبِيح: or [it is more correctly expl. as] the extremity of the bone of the upper half of the arm, next the elbow; the extremity next the shoulderjoint being called الحَسَنُ, because of the abundance of the flesh that is upon it: or the lower part of the upper half of the arm; the upper part being called الحَسَنُ: or the قَبِيحَانِ are the two slender ends that are at the heads of the ذِرَاعَانِ [here meaning the two bones of the fore arm; or the قَبِيح is the place of junction [of the bones] of the shank and the thigh, which are termed قَبِيحَانِ; and it is also called القَبَاحُ : accord. to A'Obeyd, كِسْرُ قَبِيحٍ, which is composed of two syn. words, one prefixed to the other, governing it in the gen. case, signifies the bone of the سَاعِد [here meaning the upper half of the arm] from the part next the middle to the elbow. (L, TA; and thus it is expl. in the S and K in art. كسر.)
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