مَنْكِبٌ

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مَنْكِبٌ The shoulder; i. e. the place of junction of the os humeri and the scapula, in a man &c; the place of junction of the os humeri and the scapula and the [tendon called] حَبْلُ العَاتِقِ, in a man and a bird and any other thing. [It seems to be regarded by some as originally signifying “ a place of deflection: ” but] Sb denies its being a noun of place, because, were it so, it would be مَنْكَبٌ: he does not allow it to be included in the class of مَطْلِعٌ, because this is extr. Pl. مَنَاكِبُ. رَجُلٌ شَدِيدُ المَنَاكِبِ, signifies A man having a strong shoulder: as though the sing. were applied to denote each part of the joint, and the pl. to denote the whole.
2 هَزُّوا مَنَاكِبَهُمْ [They shook their shoulderjoints;] i. e., they rejoiced, or were joyful, or happy.
3 خِياَرُكُمْ أَلَيْنُكُمْ مَنَاكِبَ فِى الصَّلَاةِ [The best of you are the most easy of you in the shoulder-joints in prayer:] meaning. those of you who keep [most] still therein: or, as some say, those who [most readily] give room to such as enter the rank in prayer.
4 مَنْكِبُ الفَرَسِ The star β in Pegasus.
5 مَنْكِبُ الجَوْزَاءِ The bright, and very great star, a, in the right shoulderjoint, of Orion.
6 مَنْكِبٌ The side of anything; or a lateral, or an adjacent, part, quarter, or tract, thereof: pl. مَنَاكِبُ: ex. سِرْنَا فِى منكبٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ We proceeded, or journeyed, along a side, or lateral part, of the land: and, in like manner, مِنَ الجَبَلِ of the mountain: so in the Kur, lxvii. 15, the pl. signifies the sides, &c., of the earth: or its roads, accord. to some: or its mountains: which last signification in this case is preferred by Az: or the sing. signifies an elevated place, or part, of the earth or land.
7 المَنَاكِبٌ The feathers next after the قَوَادِم; [which latter are the anterior, or primary, feathers of a bird's wing;] the feathers of the wing of a vulture or an eagle that are next after the قوادم, which are the strongest and most excellent of the feathers; four [feathers] in the wing of a bird, next after the قوادم [the four secondary feathers of the wing:] in the wing of a bird are twenty leathers: the first of them are those called القوادم; the next, المناكب; the next, الخَوَا فِى: the next, الأَباهِرُ; the next, الكُلَى. It is a word without a sing. ISd says, I know not a sing. to it; but by analogy it should be مَنْكِبٌ.
8 سَهْمَهُ بِمَنَاكِبَ راَشَ He feathered his arrow with feathers such as are described above.

def.2 مَنْكِبٌ عَرِيفٌ i. q. The intendant, superintendent, &c., of a people or an aider, helper, or assistant, of a people: or the assistant of an عريف: one below an عريف: or the chief of the عُرَفَاءُ [pl. of عريف]; there being over so many عرفاء a منكب. (Lth [see عَرِيفٌ.]) pl. مَنَاكِبُ.

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