كهرب

Entries on كهرب in 4 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane, and 1 more

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

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كهرب

كَهْرَبٌ and كَهْرَبَا [or كَهْرُبَا] A well-known yellow substance; [yellow amber]: from the Persian كَاهُ رُبَا, i. e., “ carrying off straw, ” [on account of its electric attraction]. (TA.) See De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., iii. 468: and see حَوَرٌ.

كهف See Supplement كهكب كَهْكَبٌ and كَهْكَمٌ i. q. بَاذِنْجَانٌ [The eggplant, or melongena]. (IAar, T, K.) Mentioned in the T in art. كهكم; whence it seems that the ب is a substitute for م. (TA.)