Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

1 كَشَطَ ذ , (S, Msb, K,) aor. كَشِطَ , (Msb, MS,) inf. n. كَشْطٌ, (Msb, K,) He removed, put off, took off, or stripped off, (S, Msb, K,) a thing (Msb, K) from (عَنْ) a thing which it covered; (K;) as, for instance, the housing, or covering, (S, K,) from a horse, (K,) or from the back of a horse; (S;) and the cover from a thing; (S;) and the skin from a slaughtered camel: (TA:) and قَشَطَ is a dial. var. thereof; (Yaakoob, S;) the former being of the dial. of Kureysh, (Yaakoob, accord. to the TA,) or of Keys, (M in art. قشط,) and the latter of the dial. of Temeem and Asad; the ك not being a substitute for the ق: (Yaakoob, TA:) and ↓ استكشط signifies the same. (Ham., p. 693.) It is said in the Kur, [lxxxi. 11,] وَاـِذَا السَّمَاآءُ كُشِطَتْ And when the heaven shall be removed from its place, like as a roof is removed from its place; (Zj, K;) and in like manner قُشِطَتٌ, (Zj, S, *) accord. to the reading of 'Abd-Allah [Ibn-Mes'ood]: (S:) or shall be pulled off and folded together. (Fr.) And you say also, كَشَطَ الحَرْفَ He removed the letter from its place. (TA.) And كُشِطَ رَوْعُهُ, (TA,) inf. n. كِشَاطٌ, (K, * TA,) (tropical:) His fright, or fear, became removed; (K, * TA;) and so ↓ انكشط روعه: (TA:) or the latter signifies (tropical:) his fright, or fear, went away. (S, K, TA.) And كَشَطَ الدَّابَّهَ and قَشَطَهَا [ He removed the housing, or covering, from the beast of carriage ]. (TA in art. قشط.) And كَشَطْتُ البَعِيرَ, (S, Msb,) aor. as above, (Msb,) and so the inf. n., (S, Msb,) I skinned the camel: (S, Msb:) you should not say سَلَخْتُ; for the Arabs, in speaking of a camel, say only كَشَطْتُهُ and جَلَّدْتُهُ. (S.)

5 تكشّط السَّحَابُ فِى السَّمَاآءِ ذ The clouds became dissundered and dispersed in the sky. (TA.)

7 انكشط التُّرَابُ ذ [ The dust became removed, or cleared away, by the wind]. (T, TA in art. جول.) See also 1.

10 اـِسْتَكْشَطَ see 1.

كُشْطٌ ذ i. q. قُسْطٌ. (AA in TA art. قسط.)

كِشَاطٌ ذ : see كُشِطَ. -A2- The stripped skin of a slaughtered camel. (Lth, K.) Sometimes the latter is covered over with it; and one says, اـِرْفَعْ عَنْهَا كِشَاطَهَا لِأَنْظُرَ اـِلَى لَحْمِهَا [ Take thou off from it its stripped skin, that I may look at its flesh. ] (Lth, K. *)

كَشَّاطٌ ذ : see what next follows.

كَاشِطٌ ذ A slaughterer [or skinner ] of camels; as also ↓ كَشَّاطٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, [its pls.] كَشَطَةٌ (Lth, K,) and كَاشِطُونَ (M, TA) The owners of a skinned camel. (Lth, M, K.)

جَزُورٌ مَكْشُوطَةٌ ذ [ A skinned slaughtered camel ]. (K.)

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1 كَظَّهُ ذ , (S, K,) aor. كَظُ3َ , inf. n. كَظٌّ, (S,) It (food, S, K, and in like manner drink, TA) affected him with كِظَّة, q. v.; (S,) filled him so that he could not breathe: (K:) filled him, and made him heavy. (TA.) ― -b2- He, or it, made him sad, or sorrowful, by reason of much eating; inf. n. كَظَّةٌ. (Lth.) ― -b3- He filled it (namely a skin for water or milk) so as to make it stretch. (TA.) ― -b4- [And hence, app.,] He made it (namely a rope) firm, or fast. (Ibn-'Abbád.) ― -b5- كَظَّ الغَيْظُ صَدْرَهُ [in the TA كَظَّه, which is evidently a mistranscription,] (assumed tropical:) Wrath, or rage, filled his bosom: and الغَيْظُ ↓ اـِكْتَظَّهُ signifies the same as كَظَّهُ (assumed tropical:) [ wrath, or rage, filled him ]. (TA.) ― -b6- كَظَّهُ الأَمْرُ, (S, K,) aor. كَظُ3َ , inf. n. كَظٌّ (TA) and كَظَاظٌ and كَظَاظَةٌ, (K,) (tropical:) The affair, or case, oppressed him with grief; (S, K, TA;) distressed him; (K, TA;) filled him with grief, or disquietude, or anxiety, and burdened him. (TA.) ― -b7- كَظَّ خَصْمَهُ (assumed tropical:) He bridled his adversary so that he found no way of escape. (TA.) -A2- See also 8.

3 كَاظَّ القَوْمُ بَعْضُهُمْ بَعْضًا ذ , inf. n. مُكَاظَّةٌ and كِظَاظٌ, (assumed tropical:) The people, or company of men, straitened one another, or crowded together, and clave together, in the place of fight, in war; as also ↓ تكاظّوا. (TA.) كِظَاظٌ signifies [likewise] (assumed tropical:) Long cleaving, or holding fast, (K, TA,) notwithstanding difficulty: (TA:) and vehement striving for the mastery in war or fight; as also مُكَاظَّةٌ: (S, K:) and the latter, [or both,] (assumed tropical:) the exceeding the ordinary bounds in enmity; as also ↓ تَكَاظٌّ. (TA.) You say, بَيْنَهْمْ كِظَاظٌ (assumed tropical:) [ Between them is vehement striving for the mastery in fight ]. (S.) And it is said in a prov., لَيْسَ أَخُو الكِظَاظِ مَنْ يَسْأَمُهُ (assumed tropical:) [ He who is fitted for vehement striving for the mastery is not he who turns away from it with disgust ]: meaning كَاظِّهِمْ مَا كَاظُّوكَ (assumed tropical:) [ Strive thou vehemently for the mastery with them as long as they so strive with thee ]; i. e. do not thou turn away from them with disgust unless they so turn away from thee. (TA.) [Meyd relates it thus: أَخُو الكِظَاظِ مَنْ لَا يَسْأَمُهُ (assumed tropical:) He who is fitted for vehement striving for the mastery is he who does not turn away from it with disgust. ] You say also, القَوْمُ ↓ تَكَاظَّ (assumed tropical:) The people, or company of men, exceeded the ordinary bounds in enmity. (S.) See also كِظَاظٌ below.

6 تَكَاْظَ3َ see 3, in three places.

8 اكتظّ ذ He became filled by food so that he could not breathe, (K,) and in like manner by drink. (TA.) It is also said of the belly. (TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) It (a water-course) became straitened by the abundance of its flow of water; (S;) as also ↓ كَظَّ, [aor., accord. to general rule, كَظِ3َ ;] (TA;) and so اكتظّ بِالمَاآءِ: (K:) and اكتظّ بِثَجِيجِ المَاآءِ (tropical:) it (a valley) became filled by the rain and torrent. (TA.) [See also R. Q. 1 and 2.] ― -b3- اكتظّ القَوْمُ فِى المَسْجِدِ (assumed tropical:) The people straitened, or crowded, one another in the mosque. (TA.) ― -b4- اكتظّهُ الغَيْظُ: see 1.

R. Q. 1 كَظْكَظَ ذ , inf. n. كَظْكَظَةٌ, It (a skin for water or milk) stretched when being filled: (Lth, K:) was seen to become even [ more and more ] as often as water was poured into it. (O, K.) [See also 8, and R. Q. 2.]

R. Q. 2 تَكَظْكَظَ ذ He erected himself, sitting, as often as he filled his belly, (Lth, K,) becoming filled so that he could not breathe, (K,) after being seen to be in a bending posture, (Lth,) while eating. (K.) ― -b2- It (a skin for water or milk) became filled, or full. (TA.) [See also 8, and R. Q. 1.]

كَظُّ ذ [originally an inf. n. ― -b2- Used as a simple subst.,] (tropical:) Grief, or disquietude, or anxiety, that fills the bosom: so in the saying of 'Omar Ibn- 'Abd-el-'Azeez, in speaking of death, وَكَظٌّ لَيْسَ كَالْكَظِّ, meaning And grief, &c., that is not like other grief, &c., but more vehement. (TA.) [See also غَنْظٌ.] -A2- It is also used as an epithet: you say رَجُلٌ كَظٌّ (tropical:) A man whom affairs oppress, or distress, and overcome, so that he is unable to perform them. (Ibn-'Abbád, K. *) ― -b2- And رَجُلٌ لَظٌّ كَظٌّ (assumed tropical:) A man, hard, or difficult, in disposition. (S, L: in some copies of the former, كَظٌّ لَظٌّ.) ISd thinks that كظّ is here an imitative sequent. (TA in art. لظ, q. v.)

كِظَّةٌ ذ Repletion, or the state of being much filled, with food or drink: (M, Mgh, * K:) and a thing that befalls (S, A, K) a man, (S,) or an animal, (A,) in consequence of impletion [or repletion ] with food: (S, A, K:) pl. أَكِظَّةٌ. (TA.) Hence the trad. of En-Nakha'ee, الأَكِظَّةُ عَلَى الأَكِظَّةِ مَسْمَنَةٌ مَكْسَلَةٌ مَسْقَمَةٌ [ Repletions upon repletions are causes of fattening, rendering heavy or lazy, diseasing ]. (TA.)

كِظَاظٌ ذ : see 3, of which it is an inf. n. ― -b2- Also, (assumed tropical:) Difficulty, or distress, and fatigue, (K, TA,) in an affair, such as takes away the breath. (TA.) And (assumed tropical:) Grief, or disquietude, or anxiety, occasioned by war, filling the heart. (L.)

كَظِيظٌ ذ A man replete with food. (Mgh.) ― -b2- A skin for water or milk filled so as to be made to stretch; as also ↓ مَكْظُوظٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) A man oppressed, or distressed [ and overcome, (see كَظٌّ,)] by affairs, so as to be unable to perform them; as also ↓ مَكْظُوظٌ and ↓ مُكَظَّظٌ: (K:) or all these signify (tropical:) grieved, and full of heaviness. (TA.) ― -b4- (assumed tropical:) Angry, or enraged, in the most vehement degree. (TA.) -A2- A state of fulness, or impletion. (TA.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) A mutual straitening, or crowding together. (TA.) You say, عَلَى بَابِ فُلَانٍ كَظِيظٌ (tropical:) At the door of such a one is a crowding together. (Har, p. 341.)

هٰذَا الطَّعَامُ مَكَظَّةٌ ذ This food is a cause of indigestion, and heaviness of the stomach. (TA.)

مُكَظَّظٌ ذ : see كَظِيظٌ; the latter in two places.

مَكْظُوظٌ ذ : see كَظِيظٌ; the latter in two places.

1 كَظَبَ ذ , aor. كَظُبَ , inf. n. كُظُوبٌ, He became full of fat: (IAar, K:) like حَظَبَ. (TA.)

1 كَظَرَ القَوْسَ ذ , (K,) aor. كَظُرَ , (TK,) inf. n. كَظْرٌ, (TA,) He made to the bow a كُظْر, or notch to receive the ring of the string. (K.) ― -b2- كَظَرَ الزَّنْدَةَ, (K,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He cut in the [ piece of wood called ] زندة a notch [ from which to produce fire ]. (K.)

كُظْرُ القَوْسِ ذ The notch in the curved extremity of the bow, in which is the string; (As, S;) the notch of the bow, into which falls the ring of the string: (A, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَكْظَارٌ (A) and [of mult.] كِظَارٌ and كِظَارَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- كُظْرُ الزَّنْدَةِ The notch [ from which the fire is produced ] in the [ piece of wood called ] زندة. You say النَّارُ تَسِيلُ مِنْ كُظْرِ الزَّنْدَةِ Fire flows from the notch of the زندة. (A.)

كِظْرٌ ذ The piece of sinew which is tied upon the base of the notch of an arrow. (IDrd, K.)

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كَعَبَ الثَّدْىُ ذ , aor. كَعِبَ and كَعُبَ , (it seems to be implied in one place in the K, that the aor. is كَعَبَ ; but this is not the case; TA,) inf. n. كُعُوبٌ and كِعَابَةٌ (by MF written كَعَابَةٌ) and كُعُوبَةٌ; and ↓ كعّب, inf. n. تَكْعِيبٌ; The girl's breast swelled, or became prominent or protuberant, (K,) and round: (TA:) [or began to swell, &c.: see كَاعِبٌ]: or they use the term تَفْلِيكٌ; then نُهُودٌ; and then تَكْعِيبٌ; [as applied to the successive stages of growth of the breast]. (TA.) كَعَبَتِ الجَارِيَةُ, aor. كَعُبَ , (and كَعِبَ , TA,) inf. n. كُعُوبٌ; and ↓ كعّبت; [and ↓ تكعّبت; (A, TA in art. عج;)] The girl had breasts beginning to swell, or become prominent, or protuberant: (IAth, S:) [or had swelling, prominent, or protuberant, breasts: see كَاعِبٌ]. -A2- كَعَبَهُ, inf. n. كَعْبٌ, He beat him on a hard, or tough, part; as the head, and the like: (TA:) [and so ↓ كعّبه: for it is mentioned in the TA, that a certain king was surnamed المُكَعِّبُ from his beating the protuberances of people's heads]. -A3- كَعَبَ, aor. كَعَبَ ; (K;) and ↓ كعّب, inf. n. تَكْعِيبٌ; (TA;) He filled a vessel (K) &c. (TA.)

2 كَعَّبَ [كعّب It (a reed, or cane,) put forth, or produced, its jointed stem. ― -b2- Hence the phrase:] اـِنِّى أَرَى الشَّرَّ كَعَّبَ [(assumed tropical:) Verily I see the evil to have grown, like reeds when they put forth their jointed stems. ] (TA, voce نَبَّبَ.) ― -b3- كعّب لَبَبَهَا He put to her breast-band [the pronoun app. referring to دَابَّة “ a beast of carriage ”] edges, or borders, like كُعُوب [app. meaning play-bones, or dice, or similar things. ]. (TA.) ― -b4- كعّب, inf. n. تَكْعِيبٌ, He folded a garment, or piece of cloth, hard, or firmly, accord. to some, in a square form. (TA.) See also مُكَعَّبٌ. ― -b5- He made it square, (K,) [or rather of a cubic form ]. ― -b6- And see 1 in four places.

4 اكعب ذ , inf. n. اـِكْعَابٌ, He hastened: (K:) or he went away, paying no regard to anything: (TA:) or, inf. n. كَعَابٌ, he went away injuriously (مُضَارًّا [an act. part. n.]) not caring for what was behind him, [or for the people whom he left behind him ]: like كَلَّلَ. (Aboo-Sa'eed.)

كَعْبٌ ذ Any joint, juncture, or place of division, of the bones. (K.) ― -b2- Also, [and more commonly, The ankle-bone, or talus; ] in a man, what projects above the tarsus, where the foot is set on; (TA;) what projects above the foot; (K;) the bone that projects at the place of junction of the shank and the foot; (AA, As, S, Msb;) each foot has two bones thus termed; one on the right and the other on the left; (Msb;) each of the two bones that project on either side of the foot; (K, TA:) or the anklejoint, or tarsal-joint; the joint that is between the shank and the foot: (IAar, &c., Msb:) As rejected the saying of the [common] people, that it is in the upper part (ظَهْر) of the foot: (S:) some persons say, that it is each of the two bones that are in the upper part (ظَهْر) of the foot: so say the Shee'ah: and in like manner Yahyà Ibn-El-Hárith speaks of the كِعَاب as in the middle of the foot: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَكْعُبٌ and [of mult.] كُعُوبٌ and كِعَابٌ. (K.) ― -b3- جَارِيَةٌ دَرْمَاءُ الكُعُوبِ A girl the heads of whose bones are not big [or prominent ]. ― -b4- Also employed with reference to any quadruped; meaning, in a horse, What is between each وَظِيف and سَاق: or between the bone of the وظيف and the bone of the ساق; which projects backwards: [by this is meant, not the fetlock-joint, or hind fetlock-joint, but the hock: for it has been shown, voce عُرْقُوب, that the term كَعْب, with reference to quadrupeds, is sometimes applied to what anatomists term the tarsus ]. (TA.) ― -b5- كَعْبٌ and ↓ كَعْبَةٌ [ An ossicle ] with which one plays; [ a play-bone; a cockal-bone; the superior bone of the tarsus, called by anatomists astragalus or as tali, a little bone, somewhat oblong, taken from the foot of a sheep, or the like, thrown in play, like a die: ] (Lh, K:) the die (فَصّ) that is used in the game of tables, or backgammon, (النَّرْد); (TA;) [ any die that is used in play ]: pl. (of the former word, TA) كِعَابٌ and (of the latter, TA,) كُعْبٌ and كَعَبَاتٌ. (K: the last so written accord. to the TA; but in the CK كَعْبَاتٌ.) The playing with the كعب is forbidden (Kur v. 92]. (TA.) ― -b6- A conventional term of arithmeticians [ a cube ]. (K.) ― -b7- (tropical:) A piece of clarified butter; (S;) such [ a lump, or compact piece ] as is termed كُتْلَة, thereof: (K:) and [ a lump ] of dates [compacted together]: (M, voce فِدْرَةٌ:) a piece of clarified butter, or of fat or grease. (TA.) ― -b8- (tropical:) What is termed a صُمَّة (or what is poured out at once, or what remains in a vessel, &c., or a small quantity, ) of milk, (K,) or of clarified butter. (TA.) ― -b9- (tropical:) [ A knot, or joint, of a reed or cane;] what is between each two internodal portions of a reed or cane; (K;) the prominent part that is at the extremity of each of the internodal portions of a spear [of reed or cane]: (S:) or an internodal portion, or portion that is between each two knots, or joints, of a reed or cane: (Msb:) pl. كُعُوبٌ and كِعَابٌ. (TA.) ― -b10- By صاروا كعابا, in the following verse, رَأَيْتُ الشَّعْبَ مِنْ كَعْبٍ وَكَانُوا مِنَ الشَّنَْاآنِ قَدْ صَارُوا كِعَابَا the poet means, they were divided and opposed in mind or opinion, so that each portion that was of one mind, or opinion, became a party by itself. (AAF.) [He seems to compare them to play-bones thrown on the ground; or to the several joints, or knots, of a reed, or cane; or to a spear not equal, or uniform, in the joints, or knots, of its cane-shaft.] ― -b11- رُمْحٌ بِكَعْبٍ وَاحِدٍ A spear with equal, or uniform, knots, or joints; not having one knot, or joint, thicker than another. (TA.) -A2- (tropical:) Eminence, or nobility, and glory. (K.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ عَالِى الكَعْبِ A man eminent, or noble, and successful in his enterprises. (TA.) ― -b3- أَعْلَى اللّٰهُ كَعْبَهُ May God exalt his glory! (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- لَا يَزَالُ كَعْبُكَ عَاليًا May thy glory not cease to be exalted! See عَالٍ, in art. علو. (TA.) ― -b5- عَلَا كَعْبُكَ بِى Thy nobility, or glory, hath exalted me. (TA.) ― -b6- This signification is taken from the كَعْب of a cane: and كَعْبٌ is applied to Anything elevated. (IAth.)

كُعْبٌ ذ A girl's or woman's, breast, (K,) that is swelling, prominent, or protuberant. (TA.) See also كَاعِبٌ.

كَعْبَةٌ ذ see كَعْبٌ. ― -b2- Any square [or cubic ] house, or chamber, or the like. (K.) ― -b3- A chamber of the kind called غُرْفَة: (K:) thought by ISd to be so called because of its square [or cubic] form. (TA.) ― -b4- الكَعْبَةُ The Sacred House; [ the square, or cubic, building, in the centre of the Temple of Mekkeh ]: (S, K:) said to be so called because of its square [or cubic] form: (S:) or because of its height and its square form: also called كَعْبَةُ البَيْتِ [ The Kaabeh of the House ( of God )]. (TA.) ― -b5- الكَعَبَاتُ, (K,) or ذُو الكَعَبَاتِ, (S, K,) A house [or temple ] belonging to the tribe of Rabee'ah, who used to compass it, or perform circuits round it, [as is done round the Kaabeh of Mekkeh]. (S, K: in one copy of the S, written ذُو الكَعَبَيْنِ.)

كُعْبَةٌ ذ A girl's virginity, or maidenhead: (K:) [the virgineal membrane: as shown by a verse cited in the TA].

كُعْكُبٌّ ذ : see كُعْكُبَّةٌ.

كُعْكُبَّةٌ ذ A نُونَة of hair: this is made by a woman's disposing her hair in four plaits, and inserting them, one in another; thus they (i. e. the plaits, TA) become [ what are termed ] ↓ كُعْكُبٌّ [a coll. gen. n., of which كعكبّة is the n. un.]. (K.) ― -b2- Also, and كُعْكُبِيَّةٌ, A certain mode of combing, or dressing, the hair. (K.) ― -b3- [These words are inserted in this art. in the K: but I think that they should be in a separate art., as quadriliteral-radical words; being of the same class as سِمْسَارٌ &c.]

جَارِيَةٌ كَعَابٌ ذ A virgin. (TA.) See كَاعِبٌ.

جَارِيَةٌ كَاعِبٌ ذ , (this is the most common of the epithets here mentioned, TA,) and ↓ كَعَابٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ مُكَعِّبٌ, (K,) and كَاعِبَةٌ, (KL,) and, as written by some, ↓ مُكَعِّبَةٌ, (TA,) A girl whose breasts are beginning to swell, or become prominent, or protuberant: (IAth, S:) or having swelling, prominent, or protuberant, breasts: see 1: (K, TA:) pl. of the first كَوَاعِبُ and [of the first or second] كِعَابٌ; the latter mentioned by Th; the former occurring in the Kur lxxviii. 33. (TA.) ― -b2- ثَدْىٌ كَاعِبٌ. and ↓ مُكَعِّبٌ, and ↓ مُكَعَّبٌ, (in some copies of the K, مُكْعَبٌ, in either case extr., the forms being those of pass. part. ns., and the signification that of an act. part. n.,]) and ↓ مُتَكَعِّبٌ, A girl's breast that is swelling, prominent, or protuberant: (K:) [or beginning to swell, &c,: see 1, and see also كُعْبٌ].

مُكَعَّبٌ ذ see كَاعِبٌ. ― -b2- A بُرْد, (S, K,) and a garment, or piece of cloth, variegated, or figured, (S, K,) with squares. (Lh, S.) Some explain it as signifying variegated, or figured, without applying it particularly to a garment, or piece of cloth, or to a برد. (TA.) ― -b3- A garment, or piece of cloth, folded hard or firmly, (S, K,) accord. to some, in a square form. (TA.) ― -b4- وَجْدٌ مُكَعِّبٌ A hard and projecting face. (TA.) ― -b5- مُكَعَّبَةٌ The kind of basket called دَوْحَلَّةٌ (K) and شَوْغَرَةٌ and وَشَخَةٌ. (TA.)

مُكَعِّبٌ ذ : see كَاعِبٌ and 1.

مُتَكَعِّبٌ ذ : see كَاعِبٌ.

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4 اكعت ذ , (inf. n. اـِكْعَاتٌ, TA,) He went away quickly. (TS, K.) -A2- He sat down. (TS, K.) -A3- He mounted [his beast] swollen with anger. (TS, K.)

كَعْتٌ ذ Short: fem. with ة (S, K:) an epithet applied to a man, and, with ة, to a woman. (AZ, S.)

كُعْتَةٌ ذ The cover of a glass bottle. (K.) So in the scholia in certain of the copies of the S, relied upon for accuracy. (TS, L.)

كُعَيْتٌ ذ The [ bird called ] بُلْبُلٌ: (S, K:) a small bird (عُصْفُورٌ) called by the people of ElMedeeneh نُغَرٌ: (IAth:) pl. كِعْتَانٌ. (S, K.)

Q. 2 تَكَعْثَبَتِ العَرَارَةُ ذ The عرارة (with an unpointed ع meftoohah, the name of a certain plant; (TA;) in the CK, غِرَارَة, or sack; ) became collected together, and round. (K.)

رَكَبٌ كَعْثَبٌ ذ (as also كَثْعَبٌ, TA) A large ( and full and prominent, TA) pubes, (S, K,) or pudendum: (TA:) a prominent, compact, pubes. (Fr.) Pudendum muliebre. (ISk.) ― -b2- كَعْثَبٌ (as also كَثْعَبٌ, TA) A woman having a large ( and full and prominent, TA) pubes, (K,) or pudendum. (TA.)

كَعْدَبٌ ذ and كَعْدَبَةٌ A base, unmanly, person. (K.)