كعب: كعّب وأكعب حين تأتي قبل كلمة زربولة تعني: انهض جانباً من أعلى الحذاء التي هي ضد (ثني كعب الحذاء)، (باسم40): (حين خرج باسم ورأى انهم قد حسبوه شرطياً): لبس شاشَهُ وكعب زربوله وفي ص44): فاكعب زربوله وسوا لفة عمامته وشمر يديه وبعد ذلك في (ص48): حين أراد أن لا يعرف: وكسَر كعب زربوله.
كعْب: كعب الحذاء والجمع أكعاب ويقال كعب مبارك، أي كعب يجلب السعادة، (ألف ليلة، برسل، 4، 164): لا رأيت لك كعب مبارك على وهي تعني لم أجد في زيارتك ما يحمل السعادة لي؛ أنظر (ماكني 1، 156): قالوا: هذا كعب المولود حسن وقد وردت في طبعة بولاق: إن قدم هذا المولود مبارك. وفي التعبير عن خلاف هذا المعنى (باسم 32): وأنتم جئتم أمس إلى عندي بطلتوني (بطلتموني في مخطوطة [1] من صنعتي التي لي فيها عشرين سنة وهذا بقدومكم وكعبــكم المدور وفي (ص55): أنتم كعبــكم مشوم -كذا-.
كعب الرمح: زُجّ الرمح (عَقِبه). (بوشر)؛ مُطّرد مستوى الــكعب، ديوان الهذليين 142، 1. الجزء الخلفي للسهم (الجريدة الآسيوية 1848، 2، 210).
ثنى كعب الصرمة: ثنى جوانب الحذاء من الداخل (بوشر) وفيه كسر كعب زربوله (ينظر هذا الفعل في موضعه من (المصنف).
كعب: عُظيمة، شزنة: وجمعها أكعاب (براكس جريدة الشرق، الجزائر والمستعمرات 84).
كعب: كشتبان، قمع الخياط. (لين). (ألف ليلة، 1، 610).
كعب: مــكعب وجمعها كعوب (بوشر).
كعبُ كعبٍ المــكعب: القوة السادسة (الجريدة الآسيوية 1834، 1، 435).
كعب الرَّجل: عظم في الرَّجل على هيئة مــكعب.
كعب: ورم في رسغ الفرس في منتصف الحوشب (وهو مفصل يقع بين الجزء الأسفل من الوظيف والجزء الأعلى من الرسغ) وفوق شِكال الجانب الأيمن للجواد أو الأيسر (ابن العوام 2، 651، 6 وما تلا ذلك).
كعبــة: وجمعها كعوب: حافر الحيوان (ألكالا).
كعبــة: كتلة من النشا (أنظر في هذا معجم مادة مروزيا) وعند (فريتاج) مادة كعب.
كعبــي: مــكعب، تــكعبــي (بوشر).
اكعاب: أرنب (دومب 64).
تكعيب: تحويل إلى مــكعب، تكعيب (حساب الحجم). (بوشر).
تكعيب: عريش، مِرزَح. (بوشر).
تكعيبة: عريش، كرم معترش (كرم مسند إلى حائط أو إلى عريش). (بوشر).
مِــكعَب: المداس لا يبلغ الــكعبــين. وهو غير عربي (محيط المحيط).
مُــكَعّب. رمح مــكعّب: رمح يصنع من خشب الاسل ذو العُقد القوية (كوسج. كرست 80، 2).
مــكعّب: مــكعب (صفة) تكعيبي. (بوشر).
مــكعَّب: مــكعب (مادة). (بوشر).
مــكعَّب: عريش، مِرزح. (بوشر، ألف ليلة 1، 297؛ 2، 253؛ 4، 45؛ 4؛ 247 برسل 3، 139) وفيه ينبغي أن نقرأ مــكعب خيزران.

كعب

كَعَبَ الثَّدْىُ, aor. ـِ 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.) كَعَبَــتِ الجَارِيَةُ, aor. ـُ (and كَعِبَ, TA,) inf. n. كُعُوبٌ; and ↓ كعّبــت; [and ↓ تــكعّبــت; (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: كَعَبَــهُ, inf. n. كَعْبٌ, He beat him on a hard, or tough, part; as the head, and the like: (TA:) [and so ↓ كعّبــه: for it is mentioned in the TA, that a certain king was surnamed المُــكَعِّبُ from his beating the protuberances of people's heads].

A3: كَعَبَ, aor. ـَ (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:] إِنِّى 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 مُــكَعَّبٌ. b5: He made it square, (K,) [or rather of a cubic form]. b6: And see 1 in four places.4 اكعب, inf. n. إِكْعَابٌ, 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 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.] أَــكْعُبٌ 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 ↓ كَعْبَــةٌ [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 كَعَبَــاتٌ. (K: the last so written accord. to the TA; but in the CK كَعْبَــاتٌ.) 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 الشَّنْآنِ 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 بِــكَعْبٍ 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 الــكَعْبِ A man eminent, or noble, and successful in his enterprises. (TA.) b3: أَعْلَى اللّٰهُ كَعْبَــهُ May God exalt his glory! (TA, from a trad.) b4: لَا يَزَالُ كَعْبُــكَ عَاليًا May thy glory not cease to be exalted! See عَالٍ, in art. علو. (TA.) b5: عَلَا كَعْبُــكَ 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 A girl's or woman's, breast, (K,) that is swelling, prominent, or protuberant. (TA.) See also كَاعِبٌ.

كَعْبَــةٌ 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: الــكَعْبَــةُ 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 كَعْبَــةُ البَيْتِ [The Kaabeh of the House (of God)]. (TA.) b5: الــكَعَبَــاتُ, (K,) or ذُو الــكَعَبَــاتِ, (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 الــكَعَبَــيْنِ.) كُعْبَــةٌ A girl's virginity, or maidenhead: (K:) [the virgineal membrane: as shown by a verse cited in the TA].

كُعْكُبٌّ: see كُعْكُبَّةٌ.

كُعْكُبَّةٌ 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 A virgin. (TA.) See كَاعِبٌ.

جَارِيَةٌ كَاعِبٌ, (this is the most common of the epithets here mentioned, TA,) and ↓ كَعَابٌ, (S, K,) and ↓ مُــكَعِّبٌ, (K,) and كَاعِبَةٌ, (KL,) and, as written by some, ↓ مُــكَعِّبَــةٌ, (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 ↓ مُــكَعِّبٌ, and ↓ مُــكَعَّبٌ, (in some copies of the K, مُــكْعَبٌ, in either case extr., the forms being those of pass. part. ns., and the signification that of an act. part. n.,]) and ↓ مُتَــكَعِّبٌ, A girl's breast that is swelling, prominent, or protuberant: (K:) [or beginning to swell, &c,: see 1, and see also كُعْبٌ].

مُــكَعَّبٌ 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 مُــكَعِّبٌ A hard and projecting face. (TA.) b5: مُــكَعَّبَــةٌ The kind of basket called دَوْحَلَّةٌ (K) and شَوْغَرَةٌ and وَشَخَةٌ. (TA.) مُــكَعِّبٌ: see كَاعِبٌ and 1.

مُتَــكَعِّبٌ: see كَاعِبٌ.