وطب

وَطْبٌ ذ A skin (سِقَاءٌ) in which milk is put, (S, K,) specially used for that purpose: (S:) or a skin in which are put clarified butter and milk: (Mejma' el-Bihár, &c.:) it is made of the skin of an animal such as is termed جَذَعٌ, [ meaning a goat in its second year, ] or what is above that [ in age ]: (ISk, S, K:) the skin of a sucking kid, in which milk is put, is called شَكْوَةٌ; and that of one that is weaned, بَدْرَةٌ; and the like of a شكوة, in which clarified butter is put, عُكَّةٌ; and the like of a بدرة, مِسْأَدٌ: (ISk, S:) see also بَدْرَةٌ: pl. of pauc. أَوْطُبٌ, and of mult. وِطَابٌ (S) and أَوْطَابٌ, (dev. with respect to analogy, (TA,) [accord. to most grammarians; but not so accord. to Fr, because its first radical letter is و;] and pl. pl. (i. e. pl. of اوطب, TA,) أَوَاطِبُ. (K.) ― -b2- وَطْبٌ (tropical:) A hard, rough, rude, or coarse, man: syn. رَجُلٌ جَافٍ. (S, K.) ― -b3- وَطْبٌ (tropical:) A large breast: (K:) likened to the skin so called. (TA.) ― -b4- صَفِرَتُ وِطَابُهُ (tropical:) He died: or he was slain: (K:) the body's becoming empty of the soul is compared to the skin's becoming empty of the milk: or the meaning is his blood issued forth from his body: or, as some say, his skins became empty of their milk; a hostile attack having been made upon his camels, and no milch camel remaining in his possession. (TA.) [See similar sayings voce رفْدٌ; and see Ham., p. 34.]