ردب
إِرْدَبٌّ A well-known مِكْيَال [or measure with which corn is measured], (
T,) a large مِكْيَال, (
S,
M,
K,) in Egypt, (
K,) [i. e.] of the people of Egypt; (
T,
S;) or a certain measure of capacity well known in Egypt; (
Msb;) not correctly called a مِكْيَال for they do not measure with it, but with the وَيْبَة: (
IB,
TA:) it comprises, (يَضُمُّ, [so in the
M, but in copies of the
K وَيُضَمُّ, which signifies that it is also pronounced with damm,]) as they say, (
M,) or it takes, (
T,) twenty-four times the measure called صَاع, (
T,
M,
Msb,
K,) of wheat, (
T,) i. e. sixty-four times the measure called مَنّ, (
T,
Msb,) the منّ here meant being the منّ of our country, (
Az, [
app. meaning El-'Irák,]) and the صاع being that of the Prophet: (
Msb:) or six وَيْبَات: (
K:) the اردبّ of Egypt is six وَيْبَات; the وَيْبَة being four أَرْبَاع; the رُبْع, four أَقْدَاح; and the قَدَح, two hundred and thirty-two دَرَاهِم: (EsSuyootee in his “ Husn el-Mohádarah:”) the half of the اردبّ is called قَنْقَلٌ: (
T:) the word اردبّ is affirmed by some to be arabicized: (
MF:) [it is now vulgarly pronounced أَرْدَبّ:] the
pl. is أَرَادِبُ. (
Msb.) El-Akhtal says, قَوْمٌ إِذَا اسْتَنْبَحَ الأَضْيَافُ كَلْبَهُمُ قَالُوا لِأُمِّهِمُ بُولِى عَلَى النَّارِ وَالخُبْزُ كَالعَنْبَرِ الهِنْدِىِّ عِنْدَهُمُ وَالقَمْحُ سَبْعُونَ إِرْدَبًّا بِدِينَارِ [Persons who, when the guests induce their dog to bark, (see art. نبح,) say to their mother, “ Make water on the fire: ” and bread is like Indian ambergris in their judgment, while wheat is seventy irdebbs for a deenár]: the former of these two verses [whereof the latter only is cited in the
S] is said by
As and others to be the most severely-satirical verse uttered by any of the Arabs. (
TA.)
b2: Also A conduit in which water flows upon the surface of the ground. (
M,
K.) إِرْدَبَّةٌ A wide بَالُوعَة [or sink-hole] made of baked clay: (
T,
K:) likened to the مِكْيَال above mentioned:
pl. as above. (
T.) [And Any pipe of baked clay:
pl. إِرْدَبَّاتٌ: see دَاخِنَةٌ.]
b2: And
i. q. قِرْمِيدَةٌ [which may mean A large baked brick, or a thing made of baked clay]: (
M,
TA:) or large baked bricks; (
S,
K,
TA;) which are called قِرْمِيدٌ. (
S,
TA.)
