حقب

حُقْبٌ حقب , (A, Msb, K,) or ↓ حُقُبٌ, (S,) or the latter also, (A, Msb, K,) i. q. دَهْرٌ; (S, A, Msb, K, and Bd in xviii. 59;) [as meaning] A long time: (Bd ib.:) and the former, (S,) or both, (A, Msb, * K,) eighty years; (S, A, Msb, K, and Bd ubi suprà;) as some say: (Msb and Bd:) or more: (S, A, K:) or, as some say, seventy;: (Bd:) and a year; (A, K;) as also ↓ حِقْبَةٌ: (S, A, K:) or years: (A, K:) pl. of the former حِقَابٌ [a pl. of mult.], (S, TA,) and of the latter, (S, TA,) or former, (Msb,) or of both, (TA,) أَحْقَابٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and أَحْقُبٌ [both pls. of pauc.]. (Az, K.)