Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قَرْبَانُ

Root: قرب

Full Definition

قَرْبَانُ A vessel nearly full: fem. قُرْبَى: and pl. قِرَابٌ: you say قَدَحٌ قَرْبَانُ مَآءً i. e. [A drinking vessel] nearly full of water: and the ق in قربان is [said to be] sometimes changed into ك: so accord. to Yaakoob; but ISd denies this. (TA in art. كرب.)

def.2 See also the paragraph here following.


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