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وَقْبٌ

Root: وقب

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وَقْبٌ A small hollow, or cavity, (نُقْرَةٌ,) in which water collects, in a mountain: or in a rock: as also وَقْبَةٌ : or, accord. to some, وقب is a coll. gen. n., of which وقبة is the n. un.: pl. أَوْقَابٌ: or وَقْبٌ, accord. to the K, (but accord. to the TA وَقْبَةٌ ,) signifies what is like a well, in a tract of hard and large stones that produce no plants, a fathom, or two fathoms, in depth, in which the rain-water stagnates.
2 The cavity, or socket, of the eye: any cavity, or socket, in the body; as that of the eye, and that of the shoulder-blade: pl. وُقُوبٌ and وِقَابٌ.
3 The pit, or cavity, above the eye of a horse: pl. وُقُوبٌ and وِقَابٌ.
4 The hole into which enters the axle of a pulley.
5 See also وَقْبَةٌ.

def.2 Stupid; foolish; of little sense: like وَغْبٌ: an epithet of a man: pl. أَوْقَابٌ: fem. with ة.
2 So in the following trad. of El-Ahnaf: إِيَّاكُمْ وَحَمِيَّةَ الأَوْقَابِ [Beware of the care with which stupid people defend their rights: a proverb]. For الاوقاب, another relation substitutes الأَوغْاب, meaning the same, or weak persons. (TA, art. وغب, on the authority of AA.)
3 See أَوْقَابٌ
4 A despised, or contemptible, low, base, or ignoble, man.


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