يَلَبٌ
Root: يلب
Full Definition
[Upon us helmets, and leathern coats of defence of the fabric of El-Yemen, and swords that are straight (so accord. to the above reading, of يَقُمْنَ, which I find in an excellent copy of the S: but some read يُقَمْنَ, which, I think, affords not so good a sense:) and that curve]: or helmets made of camel's hides: [see also أَلَبٌ and أَلَبَةٌ:] or [head-coverings made of] plaited thongs of leather (نُسُوعٌ) woven together, which are put on the head in lieu of the helmet: or skins which are sewed together, and worn on the head, specially: or skins which are worn beneath the [kind of coat called] دِرْع, or [beneath that of] دِيبَاج; one of which is called يَلَبَةٌ: or skins which are worn like the coats of defence called دروع: or skins of which such coats are made: or any defensive coverings, or armour, of skins; not of iron; and hence, shields (دَرَقٌ) [of skins] are thus called: a poet says,عَلَيْنَا البَيْضُ وَاليَلَبُ اليَمَانِى وَأَسْيَافٌ يَقُمْنَ وَيَنْحَنِينَا
[Upon them all ample coats of mail, smooth and glistening; and inعَلَيْهِمْ كُلُّ سَابِغَةٍِ دِلَاصٍ وَفِى أَيْدِهِمِ اليَلَبُ المُدَارُ
[My coat of mail is smooth and glistening: its cleaving is an admirable cleaving: and its shield, of good dimensions, is of strips of skin: so accord. to explanations in the S, in arts. شك and قتر: but I incline to think that جوبها here is the same as جَيْبُهَا; and that a word is understood, which makes the meaning to be its opening at the neck and bosom, of good dimensions, is bordered with an edge of thongs]: or simply skin, or hide.دِرْعِى دِلَاصٌ شَكُّهَا شَكٌّ عَجَبْ وَجَوْبُهَا القَاتِرُ مِنْ سَيْرِ الْيَلَبْ
2 Also defensive coverings, or armour, of pieces of felt (لُبُود), with a stuffing of honey (عَسَل) and sand.
3 Also, Steel; pure iron: n. un. يَلَبَةٌ. Of this signification, the following hemistich is cited as an ex.,
[And a pulley-axis clearer than the lustre of pure iron, or steel]: but ISk says that it is by an Arab of the desert, who, hearing the verse of 'Amr Ibn-Kulthoom quoted above, erroneously supposed يلب to signify the most excellent kind of iron; and IDrd also asserts that the meaning assigned to it in this hemistich is founded upon a mistake. See also أَلَبَةٌ.وَمِحْوَرٌ أَخْلَصُ مَن مَّاءِ اليَلَبَ
4 Also, Anything great, big, or large in size.
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