كلتب

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Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876) المعجم العربي الإنجليزي لإدوارد وليام لين

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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.)