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قَلْبٌ

Root: قلب

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قَلْبٌ The heart; syn. فُؤَادٌ: or [accord. to some] it has a more special signification than the latter word: [for] some say that فؤاد signifies the “ appendages of the مَرِىْء [or œsophagus], consisting of the liver and lungs and قَلْب [or heart]: ” (K in art. فأد:) [and, agreeably with this assertion,] it is said that the قلب is a lump of flesh, pertaining to the فؤاد, suspended to the نِيَاط [q. v.]: Az says, I have observed that some of the Arabs call the whole flesh of the قلب, its fat, and its حِجَاب [or septum?], قَلْب and فُؤَاد; and I have not observed them to distinguish between the two [words]; but I do not deny that the [word] قلب may be [applied by some to] the black clot of blood in its interior: MF mentions that فؤاد is said to signify the “ receptacle, ” or “ covering, ” of the heart, (وِعَآءُ القَلْبِ, or غِشَاؤُهُ, [i. e. the pericardium,]) or, accord. to some, its “ interior: ” the قَلْب is said to be so called from its تَقَلُّب: [see 5:] the word is of the masc. gender: and the pl. is قُلُوبٌ. بَنَاتُ القَلْبِ means The several parts, or portions, [or, perhaps, appertenances,] of the heart. (TA in art. بنى.) [And قَلْبٌ is also used as meaning The stomach, which is often thus termed in the present day: so, for ex., in an explanation of طَنِخ, q. v.]
2 قَلْبُ العَقْرَبِ (also called simply, القَلْبُ, Kzw) is A certain bright star, [the star a in Scorpio,] between two other stars, which is one of the Mansions of the Moon, namely, the Eighteenth Mansion; so called because it is in the heart of Scorpio: [it rose aurorally, about the commencement of the era of the Flight, in Central Arabia, together with النَّسْرُ الوَقِعُ on the 25th of November, O. S.: (see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل:)] the commencement of the period when the cattle breed in the desert is at the time of its [auroral] rising and the [auroral] rising of النسر الواقع; these two stars rising together, in the cold season: the Arabs say, القَلبْ جَآءَ الشِّتَآءُ كَٱلْكَلْبْ [When the heart of the Scorpion rises, the winter comes like the dog]: and they regard its نَوْء [q. v.] as unlucky; and dislike journeying when the moon is in Scorpio: at its نَوْء [meaning auroral rising], the cold becomes vehement, cold winds blow, and the sap becomes stagnant in the trees: its رَقِيب is الدَّبَرَانُ [q. v.] There are also three similar appellations of other stars: these are قَلْبُ الأَسَدِ [Cor Leonis, or Regulus, the star a of Leo]: قَلْبُ الثَّوْرِ, an [improper] appellation of الدَّبَرَانُ: and قَلْبُ الحُوتِ, a name of الرِّشَآءُ [q. v.].
3 And القَلْبُ is syn. with الضَّمِيرُ [signifying The heart as meaning the mind or the secret thoughts]. (Msb in art. ضمر.)
4 And The soul.
5 And The mind, meaning the intellect, or intelligence. So in the Kur l. 36: or it means there endeavour to understand, and consideration. Accord. to Fr, you may say, مَا لَكَ قَلْبٌ Thou hast no intellect, or intelligence: and مَا قَلْبُكَ مَعَكَ Thine intellect is not present with thee: and أَيْنَ ذَهَبَ قَلْبُكَ Whither has thine intellect gone? [And hence, أَفْعَالُ القُلُوبِ The verbs significant of operations of the mind; as ظَنَّ, and the like.]
6 See also قُلْبٌ.
7 [قَلْبُ الجَيْشِ means The main body of the army; as distinguished from the van and the rear and the two wings: mentioned in the S and K in art. خمس; &c.]
8 And قَلْبٌ signifies also The pure, or choice, or best, part of anything. It is said in a trad. إِنَّ لِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ قَلْبًا وَقَلْبُ القُرْآنِ يٰسٓ [as though meaning, Verily to everything there is a choice, or best, part; and the choice, or best, part of the Kur-án is Yá-Seen ]: it is a saying of the Prophet; [and may be rendered, verily to everything there is a pith; and the pith &c.; from قَلْبٌ, as meaning, like قُلْبٌ, the “ pith ” of the palm-tree; but,] accord. to Lth, it is from what here immediately follows. One says, جِئْتُكَ بِهٰذَا الأَمْرِ قَلْبًا, meaning I have come to thee with this affair unmixed with any other thing.
9 Also A man genuine, or pure, in respect of origin, or lineage; holding a middle place among his people; and قُلْبٌ signifies the same: the former is used alike as masc. and fem. and sing. and dual and pl.; but it is allowable to form the fem. and dual and pl. from it: one says عَرَبِىٌّ قَلْبٌ and قُلْبٌ a genuine Arabian man, and اِمْرَأَةٌ قَلْبٌ and قَلْبَةٌ and قُلْبَةٌ a woman genuine, or pure, in respect of origin, or lineage: Sb says, they said هٰذَا عَرَبِىٌّ قَلْبٌ and قَلْبًا [This is an Arabian genuine, or pure, &c., and being genuine, or pure, &c.]; using the same word as an epithet and as an Verbal.Noun: and it is said in a trad., كَانَ عَلىٌّ قُرَشِيًّا قَلْبًا, meaning 'Alee was a Kurashee genuine, or pure, in respect of race: or, as some say, the meaning is, an intelligent manager of affairs; from قَلْبٌ as used in the Kur l. 36.
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