قنب

قِنَّبٌ ذ (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) and قُنَّبٌ (K) [ Cannabis, or hemp; ] i. q. أَبَقٌ [a less-known word]; a genuine Arabic word; (S, O;) or, accord. to AHn, a Pers. word [كَنَبٌ] which has become current in the language of the Arabs; (Mgh;) vulgarly pronounced قِنِّب; (TA;) [loosely expl. as] a sort of كَتَّان [or flax ], (K, TA,) i. e. the coarse [ sort ], of which are made ropes and the like; (TA;) a plant of which the skin, or rind, is twisted into ropes; (Msb;) its stems are bruised until the culms becomes strewn in fragments and the rind thereof becomes detached; and one says حِبَالُ القِنَّبِ [ the ropes of hemp ]: (AHn, Mgh:) it has a grain called شَهْدَانَج [q.v.]: (Mgh, Msb:) ↓ قِنَاب, [thus without teshdeed,] occurring in a verse of Aboo-Heiyeh En-Numeyree, is said to signify the same as قِنَّب; but whether it be a dial. var. or altered therefrom [by poetic license] is doubtful. (L, TA.) [See also De Sacy's Chrest. Arabe, sec. ed., i. 269.]