كُرَابَةٌ
Root: كرب
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كُرَابَةٌ
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كَرَابَةٌ , but the former is the more approved word, Dates that are picked from among the roots of the branches after the racemes of fruit have been cut off: the scattered dates that remain at the roots of the branches: (AHn, TA voce خُلَالَةٌ, which signifies the same:) pl. أَكْرِبَةٌ, in the formation of which, the augmentative letter (meaning the fem. ة, TA,) seems to have been rejected [or disregarded]; for فُعَالَةٌ (this is the right reading; TA; but in some copies of the K we read فُعَالَى, and in others فُعَال;) does not form a pl. on the measure أَفْعِلَةٌ.
2 AHn says, that in this verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb,
2 AHn says, that in this verse of Aboo-Dhu-eyb,
اكربة signifies Mountain-tops, from which the water of the mountains flows down; and that its pl. is كَرْبَةٌ: but ISd remarks, that this assertion is not valid; because a sing. of such a measure does not form a pl. on the measure أَفْعِلَةٌ. He also says, in one place, that اكربة is [said to be] pl. of كرابة, which signifies “ dates that fall among the roots of the palm-branches; ” but [that] this is a mistake: upon which ISd remarks, In like manner, [this] his saying is in my opinion a mistake.كَأَنَّمَا مَضْمَضَتْ مِن مَّاءِ أَكْرِبَةٍ عَلَى سَيَابَةِ نَخلٍ دُونَهُ مَلَقُ
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