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Entries on كلتب in 4 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab, Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs, and 1 more

كلتب


كَلْتَبَ
a. Acted as a pimp.
b. Dissimulated.

كَلْتَب
كُلْتُبa. Dissimulation.

كَلْتَبَان
a. Pimp, bawd.

كلتب: الكَلْتَبانُ: مأْخوذ من الكَلَب؛ وهي القيادةُ. ابن الأَعرابي: الكَلْتَبةُ القِـيادة، واللّه أَعلم.

كلتب

Q. 1 كَلْتَبَ, inf. n. كَلْتَبَةٌ, He acted as a pimp. (IAar.) See كَلْتَبَانٌ. b2: [Freytag assigns to this verb the signification Dissimulations, astutia, usus est in rebus; as from the K, with the same inf. n.: but I do not find it in any copy of that work. See, however, the next para.]

كَلْتَبٌ and كُلْتُبٌ Dissimulation, or craftiness, or deceit, in affairs: (K:) [or i. q. كَلْثَبٌ, q. v.]

كَلْتَبَانٌ A pimp: (K:) from الكَلَبُ: [see كَلِبَ]. (TA.)
كلتب
؛ (الكَلْتَبُ، كجَعْفَرٍ، وقُنْفُذٍ) : أَهمله الجَوْهَرِيُّ. وَقَالَ ابْنُ دُرَيْدٍ: هُوَ شِبْهُ (المُدَاهَنَةِ فِي الأُمُورِ) ، يُقال: مَرَّ يُكْلْتِبُ فِي الأَمْرِ.
(والكَلْتَبانُ) : مأْخوذٌ من الكَلَب، وَهُوَ (القَوّادُ) ، وَقد تَقدّم. وَعَن ابْنِ الأَعْرَابيّ: الكَلْتَبَةُ القِيَادَةُ.
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