كنب
1 كَنَبَ,
aor. ـُ
inf. n. كُنُوبٌ; and ↓ اكنب; He, or it, was, or became, gross; thick, coarse; or rough:
syn. غَلُظَ. (
K.) See 4.
b2: كَنَبَ He was, or became, possessed of plenty, or riches:
syn. اِسْتَغْنَى. (
K.)
b3: كَنَبَهُ فِى جِرَابِهِ,
aor. ـِ
inf. n. كَنْبٌ, He stowed it, or deposited it, in his provision-bag. (
K.) 4 أَكْنَبَتْ يَدُهُ; and ↓ كَنِبَتْ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. كَنَبٌ; (
K;) or the former verb only is used; not the latter; (
As,
S;) His hand was, or became, callous, or hard, (
S,) or coarse, or rough, (
K,) by reason of work. (
S,
K.) See 1.
b2: اكنب لِسَانُهُ His tongue was impeded, or tied up. (
K.)
b3: اكنب عَلَيْهِ بَطْنُهُ His belly [meaning its contents] oppressed him, or gave him pain:
syn. إِشْتَدَّ. (
K.) كَنَبٌ Callousness, or hardness, of the hand, resulting from work: (
S:) or coarseness, or roughness, of the foot, and of the hoof, and of the camel's foot, and of the hand: or of the hand only, resulting from work. (
K.)
A2: See كَنِبٌ.
كَنِبٌ, of the same measure as كَتِفٌ, (
K,) or ↓ كَنَبٌ, (as in the copies of the
S in my hands) A certain plant: (
S,
K:) or a certain tree: (
Lth:)
AHn says, It resembles the قَتَاد growing in our country, where, sometimes, sandals or shoes are sewed with its bark, and thereof are twisted ropes which endure moisture, day-dew, or rain: and in one place he says, I asked one of the Arabs of the desert respecting the كنب, and he shewed me a scattered, small, thorny plant, with white twigs or branches, abounding with thorns, having, at the extremities, بَرَاعِيم [or calyxes, or flowers, or flower-buds,] from each of which grew forth three thorns. (
TA.) كِنَابٌ
i. q. شِمْرَاخٌ [i. e. the fruit-stalk of the raceme of a palm tree]. (
S,
K.) كَنِيبٌ What is dry, of trees: or having its thorns broken. (
K.) كُنْتُبٌ and كُنَاتِبٌ Short: (
K:) or thick, or coarse, and short: (
TA:) or hard and strong: (see كُنْتثُبٌ:) but the ث is augmentative, (
TA,) [and therefore the proper art. is كنب].
كَانِبٌ Full to satiety; glutted with food. (
K.) مُكْنَبٌ and مِكْنَبٌ: see next paragraph.
مُكْنِبٌ and ↓ مِكْنَبٌ A coarse, or rough, hoof; (
IAar,
K;) and the same words, and ↓ مُكْنَبٌ, the same as applied to a camel's foot. (
IAar) مُكْنَئِبٌّ Thick, or coarse, and strong, and short. (
K)
