كربس

كِرْبَاسٌ A coarse garment or pieces of cloth: (Msb:) or coarse garments or pieces of cloth: (S: [but this explanation is omitted in some copies:]) or a garment or piece of cloth of white cotton: (K:) and so كِرْبَاسَةٌ: (TA:) or the latter is a more particular term: (S:) [i. e., the former is a coll. gen. n., and the latter is the n. un.:] a Persian word arabicized; (S, Msb, K;) originally with fet-h, [كَرْبَاس,] altered because of the rareness of the measure فَعْلَالٌ, (K,) in the cases of words not reduplicative: (TA:) [or from

כְּרֻבִים, (see Est. i. 6,) whence also كُرْفُسٌ, and κάρπασος, and carbasus:] pl. كَرَابِيسُ. (S, Msb.) كَرَابِيسِىٌّ A seller of كَرَابِيس: (Msb:) a rel. n., app. likened to أنْصَارِىٌّ; for otherwise, by rule, it should be كِرْبَاسِىٌّ. (Lth, K.) كربع See Supplement كربق كُرْبَقٌ The shop of a vintner: syn. حَانُوت.

As, in TA, voce خص.)