كبش

كَبْشَةٌ ذ [ A handful: a heap: so applied in the the present day. ― -b2- And hence, (assumed tropical:) A gang, or crew: thus, also, applied in the present day. Whence the sayings,] بَنُو فُلَانٍ كَبْشَةُ رُذَلَاآءَ (assumed tropical:) [ The sons of such a one are a gang of vile persons ]: and كَبْشَةُ دُنَسَاآءَ (assumed tropical:) [ a gang of dirty, or filthy, persons ]: thus they use this word to intimate dispraise: but [SM adds,] I know not how this is. (TA.) [Perhaps SM means that he doubts whether the word thus used be classical or not: for as to its signification, it is well known.]