كَبِدٌ

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كَبِدٌ , the most chaste and best known form of the word, and , a contraction of the former, and كَبْدٌ , also a contraction of the first, [The liver;] a certain black piece of flesh on the right of the lungs: fem., and sometimes masc.; or fem. only: pl. أَكْبَادٌ and كُبُودٌ; the latter seldom used.
2 Also, [the first,] The place of the liver, outside: the side. It is said in a trad., فَوَضَعَ يَدَهُ عَلَى كَبِدِى, meaning, And he put his hand upon my side externally; or, upon the external part of my side, next the liver.
3 The inside of an animal, altogether. Sometimes used in this sense.
4 The inside, meaning a cave, or ravine, of a mountain.
5 كَبِدُ الأَرْضِ The interior of the earth: or the minerals (مَعَادِن) of the earth: or the gold and silver and the like that are in the mines of the earth: pl. أَكْبَادٌ and كُبُودٌ. It is said in a trad. وَتَلْقِى الأَرْضُ أَفْلَاذَ كَبِدِهَا And the earth shall cast forth what is hidden in her belly, of treasures and minerals.
6 The middle of anything, and its main part.
7 The middle of the sea.
8 The middle of a butt for archers.
9 دَارُهُ كَبِدَ نَجْدٍ His house is in the middle of Nejd.
10 كَبِدٌ; in the K, كَبَدٌ ; but none [except F] says so; The middle of a tract of sand, and its main part.
11 كَبِدٌ; in the K, كَبَدٌ ; but none [except F] says so; and كَبْدٌ , and , and , as though they had formed the dim. كُبَيْدَةٌ from كَبِدٌ, and then formed the pl.; in the K, كُبَيْدَاةٌ; but this is wrong; and , dim. of كَبِدٌ, contr. to rule, like سُوَيْدَآءُ; [or dim. of كَبْدَآءُ;] The middle of the sky, and its main part: or [the meridian of the sky;] the middle of the sky, wherein is the sun at the time of its declining from the meridian: or the part of the middle of the sky which faces the spectator.
12 كَبِدٌ (Lh, L; in the K, كَبَدٌ;) The air; as also .
13 كَبِدٌ of a bow, The handle: or the part a little above the handle, against which the arrow goes: or the part between the two extremities of the handle, and that along which the arrow runs: or the part [midway] between the two extremities of its suspensory string or cord or the like: [see رِجْلٌ:] or the space of a cubit from its handle: or each part where the thong of its suspensory string or the like is tied: in the bow is its كَبِد, which is the part [midway] between the two extremities of its suspensory string or the like; then, next to this, the كُلْيَة; then, next to this, the أَبْهَر; then, next to this, the طَائِف; then, the سِئَة, which is the curved part of each extremity.
14 فُلَانٌ تُضْرَبٌ إِلَيْه أَكْبَادُ الإِبِلِ Such a one is a person to whom men journey seeking knowledge &c. [See an ex. in the first paragraph of art. ضرب.]
15 سُودٌ الأَكْبَادِ [Black-livered men;] a designation of enemies, similar to صُهْبُ السِّبَالِ [q. v.]: they are so called because the effects of rancour, or malevolence, have [as it were] burnt their livers so that they have become black; the liver being the source of enmity.

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