قصب

قُصْبٌ ذ A gut; syn. مِعًى: (S, M, Mgh, O, K:) or all the أَمْعَاآء [or guts ]: or the guts [امعاآء] that are in the lower part of the belly: TA:) pl. أَقْصَابٌ. (S. M, Mgh, O, K.) One says, هُوَ يَجُرُّ قُصْبَهُ [expl. by what here follows]. (S, O.) The Prophet said, respecting 'Amr Ibn- 'Ámir El-Khurá'ee, who first set at liberty سَوَائِب [pl. of سَائِبَةٌ, q. v.], (O,) or respecting 'Amr Ibn-Kamee-ah, who first changed the religion of Ishmael, (TA,) رَأَيْتُهُ يَجُرُّ قُصْبَهُ فِى النُّارِ [ I saw him dragging his guts in the fire of Hell]. (O, TA.) ― -b2- El-Aashà in his saying وَشَاهِدُنَا الجُلَّ وَاليَاسَمِى نُ وَالمُسْمِعَاتُ بِأَقْصَابِهَا means [ The rose being present with us, and the jasmine, and the songstresses ] with their chords of gut: or, as some relate it, (and as it is cited in the M,) he said ↓ بِقُصَّابِهَا, meaning with their musical reeds, or pipes. (S, O.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The middle of the body; metaphorically applied thereto: so in the saying of Imra-el-Keys, (S, O, L,) or, accord. to the people of El-Koofeh and ElBasrah, it is falsely ascribed to him, (O,) والقُصْبُ مُضْطَمِرٌ وَالمَتْنُ مَلْحُوبُ [ And the middle of the body slender and lean, and the portion next the back-bone, on either side, smooth, and sloping downwards ]. (S, O, L.) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) The back. (O, K. [SM, not having found this in any lexicon but the K, supposed that الظَّهْرُ might be substituted in it for الخَصْرُ, which is not therein mentioned as a meaning of القُصْبُ.])