كَدْبٌ
Root: كدب
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كَدْبٌ
and كَدِبٌ and كَدَبٌ and كُدْبٌ [but the second seems to have been written, in MF's copy of the K, كِدْبٌ], coll. gen. ns., also with ذ for د, The whiteness [or white marks] on the nails of young persons: n. un. with ة: as also كُدَيْبَاءُ: but this last, says SM, I have not found in any other lexicon.
2 جَاؤُوا عَلَى قَمِيصِهِ بِدَمٍ كَدِبٍ, [Kur, xii. 18,] so accord. to the reading of Ibn-'Abbás, and 'Áïsheh, and El-Hasan El-Basree, They brought, upon his shirt, blood inclining in colour to white; as though it were blood that had made marks upon the shirt resembling embroidery or the like: or fresh blood: or, contr. dry blood: or blood of a dingy hue: or blood changed [in colour].
2 جَاؤُوا عَلَى قَمِيصِهِ بِدَمٍ كَدِبٍ, [Kur, xii. 18,] so accord. to the reading of Ibn-'Abbás, and 'Áïsheh, and El-Hasan El-Basree, They brought, upon his shirt, blood inclining in colour to white; as though it were blood that had made marks upon the shirt resembling embroidery or the like: or fresh blood: or, contr. dry blood: or blood of a dingy hue: or blood changed [in colour].
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