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كَعَّبَ [ كعّب It (a reed, or cane,) put forth, or produced, its jointed stem. ― -b2- Hence the phrase:] اـِنِّى أَرَى الشَّرَّ كَعَّبَ [(assumed tropical:) Verily I see the evil to have grown, like reeds when they put forth their jointed stems.] (TA, voce نَبَّبَ .) ― -b3- كعّب لَبَبَهَا He put to her breast-band [the pronoun app. referring to دَابَّة “ a beast of carriage ”] edges, or borders, like كُعُوب [app. meaning play-bones, or dice, or similar things.]. (TA.) ― -b4- كعّب , inf. n. تَكْعِيبٌ , He folded a garment, or piece of cloth, hard, or firmly, accord. to some, in a square form. (TA.) See also مُكَعَّبٌ . ― -b5- He made it square, (K,) [or rather of a cubic form]. ― -b6- And see 1 in four places.

اكعب , inf. n. اـِكْعَابٌ , He hastened: (K:) or he went away, paying no regard to anything: (TA:) or, inf. n. كَعَابٌ , he went away injuriously ( مُضَارًّا [an act. part. n.]) not caring for what was behind him, [or for the people whom he left behind him]: like كَلَّلَ . (Aboo-Sa'eed.)

كَعْبٌ Any joint, juncture, or place of division, of the bones. (K.) ― -b2- Also, [and more commonly, The ankle-bone, or talus;] in a man, what projects above the tarsus, where the foot is set on; (TA;) what projects above the foot; (K;) the bone that projects at the place of junction of the shank and the foot; (AA, As, S, Msb;) each foot has two bones thus termed; one on the right and the other on the left; (Msb;) each of the two bones that project on either side of the foot; (K, TA:) or the anklejoint, or tarsal-joint; the joint that is between the shank and the foot: (IAar, &c., Msb:) As rejected the saying of the [common] people, that it is in the upper part ( ظَهْر ) of the foot: (S:) some persons say, that it is each of the two bones that are in the upper part ( ظَهْر ) of the foot: so say the Shee'ah: and in like manner Yahyà Ibn-El-Hárith speaks of the كِعَاب as in the middle of the foot: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَكْعُبٌ and [of mult.] كُعُوبٌ and كِعَابٌ . (K.) ― -b3- جَارِيَةٌ دَرْمَاءُ الكُعُوبِ A girl the heads of whose bones are not big [or prominent]. ― -b4- Also employed with reference to any quadruped; meaning, in a horse, What is between each وَظِيف and سَاق : or between the bone of the وظيف and the bone of the ساق ; which projects backwards: [by this is meant, not the fetlock-joint, or hind fetlock-joint, but the hock: for it has been shown, voce عُرْقُوب , that the term كَعْب , with reference to quadrupeds, is sometimes applied to what anatomists term the tarsus]. (TA.) ― -b5- كَعْبٌ and ↓ كَعْبَةٌ [An ossicle] with which one plays; [a play-bone; a cockal-bone; the superior bone of the tarsus, called by anatomists astragalus or as tali, a little bone, somewhat oblong, taken from the foot of a sheep, or the like, thrown in play, like a die:] (Lh, K:) the die ( فَصّ ) that is used in the game of tables, or backgammon, ( النَّرْد ); (TA;) [any die that is used in play]: pl. (of the former word, TA) كِعَابٌ and (of the latter, TA,) كُعْبٌ and كَعَبَاتٌ . (K: the last so written accord. to the TA; but in the CK كَعْبَاتٌ .) The playing with the كعب is forbidden (Kur v. 92]. (TA.) ― -b6- A conventional term of arithmeticians [a cube]. (K.) ― -b7- (tropical:) A piece of clarified butter; (S;) such [a lump, or compact piece] as is termed كُتْلَة , thereof: (K:) and [a lump] of dates [compacted together]: (M, voce فِدْرَةٌ :) a piece of clarified butter, or of fat or grease. (TA.) ― -b8- (tropical:) What is termed a صُمَّة (or what is poured out at once, or what remains in a vessel, &c., or a small quantity,) of milk, (K,) or of clarified butter. (TA.) ― -b9- (tropical:) [A knot, or joint, of a reed or cane;] what is between each two internodal portions of a reed or cane; (K;) the prominent part that is at the extremity of each of the internodal portions of a spear [of reed or cane]: (S:) or an internodal portion, or portion that is between each two knots, or joints, of a reed or cane: (Msb:) pl. كُعُوبٌ and كِعَابٌ . (TA.) ― -b10- By صاروا كعابا , in the following verse, رَأَيْتُ الشَّعْبَ مِنْ كَعْبٍ وَكَانُوا مِنَ الشَّنَْا=نِ قَدْ صَارُوا كِعَابَا the poet means, they were divided and opposed in mind or opinion, so that each portion that was of one mind, or opinion, became a party by itself. (AAF.) [He seems to compare them to play-bones thrown on the ground; or to the several joints, or knots, of a reed, or cane; or to a spear not equal, or uniform, in the joints, or knots, of its cane-shaft.] ― -b11- رُمْحٌ بِكَعْبٍ وَاحِدٍ A spear with equal, or uniform, knots, or joints; not having one knot, or joint, thicker than another. (TA.) -A2- (tropical:) Eminence, or nobility, and glory. (K.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ عَالِى الكَعْبِ A man eminent, or noble, and successful in his enterprises. (TA.) ― -b3- أَعْلَى اللّٰهُ كَعْبَهُ May God exalt his glory! (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- لَا يَزَالُ كَعْبُكَ عَاليًا May thy glory not cease to be exalted! See عَالٍ , in art. علو . (TA.) ― -b5- عَلَا كَعْبُكَ بِى Thy nobility, or glory, hath exalted me. (TA.) ― -b6- This signification is taken from the كَعْب of a cane: and كَعْبٌ is applied to Anything elevated. (IAth.)

كُعْبٌ A girl's or woman's, breast, (K,) that is swelling, prominent, or protuberant. (TA.) See also كَاعِبٌ .

كَعْبَةٌ see كَعْبٌ . ― -b2- Any square [or cubic] house, or chamber, or the like. (K.) ― -b3- A chamber of the kind called غُرْفَة : (K:) thought by ISd to be so called because of its square [or cubic] form. (TA.) ― -b4- الكَعْبَةُ The Sacred House; [the square, or cubic, building, in the centre of the Temple of Mekkeh]: (S, K:) said to be so called because of its square [or cubic] form: (S:) or because of its height and its square form: also called كَعْبَةُ البَيْتِ [The Kaabeh of the House (of God)]. (TA.) ― -b5- الكَعَبَاتُ , (K,) or ذُو الكَعَبَاتِ , (S, K,) A house [or temple] belonging to the tribe of Rabee'ah, who used to compass it, or perform circuits round it, [as is done round the Kaabeh of Mekkeh]. (S, K: in one copy of the S, written ذُو الكَعَبَيْنِ .)

كُعْبَةٌ A girl's virginity, or maidenhead: (K:) [the virgineal membrane: as shown by a verse cited in the TA].

كُعْكُبٌّ : see كُعْكُبَّةٌ .

كُعْكُبَّةٌ A نُونَة of hair: this is made by a woman's disposing her hair in four plaits, and inserting them, one in another; thus they (i. e. the plaits, TA) become [what are termed] ↓ كُعْكُبٌّ [a coll. gen. n., of which كعكبّة is the n. un.]. (K.) ― -b2- Also, and كُعْكُبِيَّةٌ , A certain mode of combing, or dressing, the hair. (K.) ― -b3- [These words are inserted in this art. in the K: but I think that they should be in a separate art., as quadriliteral-radical words; being of the same class as سِمْسَارٌ &c.]

جَارِيَةٌ كَعَابٌ A virgin. (TA.) See كَاعِبٌ .

جَارِيَةٌ كَاعِبٌ , (this is the most common of the epithets here mentioned, TA,) and ↓ كَعَابٌ , (S, K,) and ↓ مُكَعِّبٌ , (K,) and كَاعِبَةٌ , (KL,) and, as written by some, ↓ مُكَعِّبَةٌ , (TA,) A girl whose breasts are beginning to swell, or become prominent, or protuberant: (IAth, S:) or having swelling, prominent, or protuberant, breasts: see 1: (K, TA:) pl. of the first كَوَاعِبُ and [of the first or second] كِعَابٌ ; the latter mentioned by Th; the former occurring in the Kur lxxviii. 33. (TA.) ― -b2- ثَدْىٌ كَاعِبٌ . and ↓ مُكَعِّبٌ , and ↓ مُكَعَّبٌ , (in some copies of the K, مُكْعَبٌ , in either case extr., the forms being those of pass. part. ns., and the signification that of an act. part. n.,]) and ↓ مُتَكَعِّبٌ , A girl's breast that is swelling, prominent, or protuberant: (K:) [or beginning to swell, &c,: see 1, and see also كُعْبٌ ].

مُكَعَّبٌ see كَاعِبٌ . ― -b2- A بُرْد , (S, K,) and a garment, or piece of cloth, variegated, or figured, (S, K,) with squares. (Lh, S.) Some explain it as signifying variegated, or figured, without applying it particularly to a garment, or piece of cloth, or to a برد . (TA.) ― -b3- A garment, or piece of cloth, folded hard or firmly, (S, K,) accord. to some, in a square form. (TA.) ― -b4- وَجْدٌ مُكَعِّبٌ A hard and projecting face. (TA.) ― -b5- مُكَعَّبَةٌ The kind of basket called دَوْحَلَّةٌ (K) and شَوْغَرَةٌ and وَشَخَةٌ . (TA.)

مُكَعِّبٌ : see كَاعِبٌ and 1.

مُتَكَعِّبٌ : see كَاعِبٌ .