قب

قُبَّةٌ ذ A certain kind of structure, (S, M, A, O, Msb, TA,) well known; (M, A, Msb, TA;) and applied to a round بَيْت [i. e. tent, or pavilion ], well known among the Turkumán and the Akrád; (Msb;) it is what is called a خَرْقَاهَة [an Arabicized word from the Pers. خَرْكَاه]; (Mgh, Msb;) and signifies any round structure: (Mgh:) it is said to be a structure of skins, or tanned hides, peculiarly; (M, TA;) derived from قَبَّ الشَّىْءَ and قَبَّبَهُ meaning “ he collected, or gathered together, the extremities of the thing: ” (M:) accord. to IAth, it is a small round tent of the kind called خِبَاآء; of the tents of the Arabs: in the 'Ináyeh it is said to be what is raised for the purpose of the entering thereinto; and not to be peculiarly a structure: (TA:) [also a dome-like, or tent-like, covering of a woman's camel-vehicle of the kind called هَوْدَج: and a dome, or cupola, of stone or bricks: and a building covered with a dome or cupola: ] the pl. is قِبَابٌ (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and قُبَبٌ. (S, M, O, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] قُبَّةُ السَّنَامِ (assumed tropical:) [ The round, protuberant, upper portion of the camel's hump ]. (A, voce قَحَدَةٌ.) ― -b3- قُبَّةُ الاـِسْلَامِ is an appellation of El-Basrah. (M, K.) ― -b4- And القُبَّةُ is the name by which some of the Arabs call (assumed tropical:) The thirteen stars that compose the constellation of Corona Australis; because of their round form. (Kzw.)