قهب
1 قَهِبَ,
aor. ـَ (
K,
TA,)
inf. n. قَهَبٌ, (
TA,) He, or it, was, or became, of the colour termed قُهْبَةٌ [
q. v.]. (
K,
TA.)
4 اقهب عَنِ الطَّعَامِ He abstained from food, or the food, and did not desire it. (
O,
K.)
قَهْبٌ [and ↓ أَقْهَبُ] White overspread with duskiness: (A 'Obeyd,
S,
O,
K:)
fem. [of the former] قَهْبَةٌ and [of the latter] ↓ قَهْبَآءُ, (
S,) [and]
↓ قَهِبَةٌ is a
fem. epithet having the same meaning: (
K,
TA:) or white; (
TA;) and so ↓ قُهَابٌ and ↓ قُهَابِىٌّ; (
Lth,
O,
K,
TA;) or all signify thus in respect of skin, or hide: (
Az,
TA:) or قَهْبٌ signifies thus as an
epithet applied to the young of goats and oxen, (
Lth,
O,
TA,) and the like thereof, and in respect of skin, or hide: (
Lth, O:) and ↓ أَقْهَبُ signifies dust-coloured with an inclining to blackness: (
As,
S, O:) or red with an intermixture of dust-colour: (
IAar,
S, O:) or a dusky white: (
S, O:) or having a colour inclining to duskiness, with whiteness or blackness (مع البياض للسواد [which I suppose to be a mistake for مع البياض او السواد]). (
TA.)
A2: Also [or
app. جَبَلٌ قَهْبٌ] A great mountain; (
S,
K;)
accord. to
AA: (
S:) or,
accord. to him, a long mountain: (
O:)
pl. قِهَابٌ: or this [or جِبَالٌ
قِهَابٌ?] signifies mountains of a black colour intermixed with redness. (
TA.)
b2: And Advanced in age; (
O,
TA;) applied to an elder; like
قَحْبٌ and قَحْرٌ: (
TA:) and old in respect of origin; used in this sense by Ru-beh: (
O,
TA:) or [جَمَلٌ قَهْبٌ signifies] a camel advanced in age (
K,
TA) beyond such as is termed بَازِلٌ: (
TA:) or a great camel. (
AA,
TA.)
قُهْبَةٌ The colour of that which is termed قَهْبٌ; i. e. whiteness overspread with duskiness: (
K:) or the colour of that which is termed أَقْهَبُ; i. e. a dusky whiteness: or,
accord. to
As, dust-colour
inclining to blackness: or,
accord. to
IAar, redness with an intermixture of dust-colour: (
S, O:) or,
accord. to
IAar, blackness inclining to خُضْرَة [by which word is here
app. meant a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour]. (
TA voce حُسْبَةٌ.)
قَهِبَةٌ: see قَهْبٌ, first sentence.
قَهْبِىٌّ The يَعْقُوب; (
Lth,
O,
K;) i. e. the male partridge. (
Lth, O.)
قُهَابٌ: see قَهْبٌ, first sentence.
قُهَيْبٌ: see قُهَيْبَةٌ.
قَهَوْبَةٌ, (
K accord. to the
TA,) or قَهُوبَةٌ, (
O, and so in the
CK and in my
MS. copy of the
K,) like
رَكُوبَةٌ, (
O,) and قَهَوْبَاةٌ, (
O,
K,
TA, [in the
O, in which it is restricted to the last of the following meanings, carelessly written قَهُوْبَاء, but there said to be with fet-h to the ه, and with ه, by which is meant ة,])
accord. to
MF with damm to the ف, but this is a mistake, (
TA,) An arrow-head (
O,
K *) having three شُعَب [i. e. barbs]: (
O,
K:) and in some instances having two pieces, or two small pieces of iron, (حَدِيدَتَانِ,
O, or حديّدتان,
TA,) which sometimes contract, and sometimes diverge, or open: (
O,
TA:) or a small arrow, that hits the butt: (
K:) or قَهُوبَاتٌ, which is the
pl., signifies short arrows, that hit the butt: this is said by
Az to be the right explanation: and
IDrd has mentioned قَهَوْبَاةٌ as signifying broad heads of arrows or the like: (
O:)
accord. to
Sb, (
TA,) there is no other instance [than قَهْوْبَاةٌ] of a word of which the [primitive] measure is فَعَوْلَى. (
K,
TA. [شَجَوْجًى and similar words are of the measure فَعَوْعَلٌ.])
قُهَيْبَةٌ, (thus
accord. to
SM's copy of the
K,) in the form of a
dim.;
accord. to another copy of the
K, قُهْبِيَّةٌ; [
accord. to another copy, قُهَبِيَّةٌ;
accord. to the
CK, قَهِيبَةٌ;] and
accord. to the
L, ↓ قُهَيْبٌ [
app. a
coll. gen. n. of which قُهَيْبَةٌ is the
n. un.]; (
TA;) A certain bird, (
K,
TA,) found
in Tihámeh, in which are whiteness and خَضْرَة
[here
app. meaning, as in an instance mentioned above, a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour]; a species of partridge. (
TA.)
قُهَابِىٌّ: see قَهْبٌ, first sentence.
أَقْهَبُ, and its
fem. قَهْبَآءُ: see قَهْبٌ, first sentence, in three places.
b2: الأَقْهَبَانِ means The elephant and the buffalo: (
S,
A,
O,
K:) each of them is termed أَقْهَبُ because of his colour, (
O,
TA,) or because of his greatness. (
A,
TA.)
