قطــرب
Q. 1 قَطْــرَبَ, (
K,)
inf. n. قَطْــرَبَةٌ, (
O,) He hastened, sped, or went quickly. (
O,
K.)
A2: and
قَطْــرَبَهُ He threw him down, or prostrated him, on the ground: (
O,
K: *) and so قَرْطَبَهُ. (
O.)
Q. 2 تَـ
ـقَطْــرَبَ He (a man,
TA) moved about his head: and made himself to resemble the
قُطْــرُب: (
K:) or became like the
قُطْــرُب in some one of the senses assigned to it in what follows. (
TA.)
قُطْــرُبٌ A certain bird; (
S,
O,
K;) [
app. a species of owl;
accord. to
Dmr, as cited by Freytag, a bird that roves about by night and does not sleep; and hence rendered by him, and by Golius, strix. No other meaning of the word, as an appellative, is mentioned in the
S.]
b2: And A certain insect that rests not all the day, going about, or going about quickly, (
O,
K,
TA,) or, as they used to assert in the Time of Ignorance, that never rests, (
TA,) moving about on the surface of water. (
KL.) Mohammad Ibn-El-Mustaneer, (
K,
TA,) the grammarian, (
TA,) was surnamed
قُطْــرُب because he used to go early in the morning to Seebaweyh; so that the latter, whenever he opened his door, found him there; wherefore he said to him, مَا أَنْتَ إِلَّا
قُطْــرُبُ لَيْلٍ [Thou art none other than a kutrub of night]. (
K, *
TA.) It is also
expl. in the
K as meaning Light, or active; and
Th mentions that it signifies thus; and adds that one says, إِنَّهُ لَـ
ـقُطْــرُبُ لَيْلٍ [Verily he is a kutrub of night]; but this shows that it means an insect [described above], and is not [properly speaking] an
epithet. (
TA.) To this insect is likened a man who labours during the day in accomplishing worldly wants and in the evening is fatigued so that he sleeps during the night until he enters upon the time of morning to betake himself to the like thereof, هٰذَا جِيفَةُ لَيْلِ
قُطْــرُبُ نَهَارٍ [
lit. This is a corpse of the night, a kutrub of the day]. (
O, from an explanation of a
trad.) [See also Freytag's Arab.
Prov. i. 329 and 643.]
b3: And [hence,
app.,] (assumed
tropical:) A thief who is skilful, or active, in thievishness: (
O,
M,
TA:) for اللِّصُّ الفَارِهُ فِى اللُّصُوصِيَّةِ, an explanation of الـ
ـقُطْــرُبُ given [in the O and] by
IM and others, the copies of the
K erroneously substitute اللِّصُ وَالفَأْرَةُ [as though
قُطْــرُبٌ had the significations of a thief and a rat or mouse]. (
TA.)
b4: And The male (
Lth,
O,
K,
TA) of the [kind of demon called]
سِعْلَاة (
Lth,
TA) or of the غُول [which is said to signify the same as سعلاة]; as also ↓
قُطْــرُوبٌ. (
O,
K,
TA.)
b5: And [
app. A young, or little, jinnee: thus قُرْطُبٌ is
expl. in the
L: or] the young ones, or little ones, of the jinn. (
K.)
b6: And A young, or little, dog: (
O:) or the young ones, or little ones, of dogs. (
K.)
b7: And A wolf such as is termed أَمْعَط [i. e. whose hair has fallen off, part after part, or has become scanty; or mischievous, or malignant]. (
O,
K.)
b8: And An ignorant person, (
O,
K,
TA,) who boasts by reason of his ignorance (يَظْهَرُ بِجَهْلِهِ). (
O,
TA.)
b9: and Cowardly, or a coward, (
O,
K,
TA,) even if intelligent. (
O,
TA.)
b10: And Lightwitted;
syn. سَفِيهٌ; (
O,
K,
TA;) as also ↓
قُطْــرُوبٌ: and
IAar has mentioned as a
pl. in this sense, used by a poet,
قَطَــارِيبُ, which,
ISd says, may be
pl. of
قُطْــرُوبٌ or of a
sing. of some other form requiring such a form of
pl., or it may be used as a
pl. of
قُطْــرُبٌ by poetic license. (
TA.)
b11: And Thrown down, or prostrated, on the ground,
syn. مَصْرُوعٌ, (
O,
K,
TA,) by reason of diabolical possession or wrestling. (
O, *
TA.)
A2: Also A species of melancholia; (
O,
K,
TA;) a well-known disease, arising from the black bile; (
TA;) mostly originating in the month of شُبَاط [February, O.
S.]; vitiating, or disordering, the intellect, contracting the face, occasioning continual unhappiness, causing to wander about in the night, and rendering the face أَخْضَر [here
app. meaning of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour], the eyes sunken, and the body emaciated. (
O.) [A more ample discription is given by Avicenna (Ibn-Seenà). in book iii. pp. 315, et seq.
SM states that he had not found this in any other lexicon than the
K. Golius explains the word as signifying Lycanthropia, on the authority of Rhazes (Er-
Rázee).]
قُطْــرُوبٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.
