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اوقب النَّخْلُ The palm-tree became rotten in the fruit-bearing stalks of its racemes. (TA.) ― -b2- اوقب He (K), or it, (a people, S,) hungered; suffered hunger. (S, K.) ― -b3- اوقب شَيْيءًا , (inf. n. اـِيقَابٌ , TA,) He put a thing into a وَقْبَة , q. v.: (Fr, S, K:) or, as in some Lexicons, into a وَقْب . (TA.)

وَقْبٌ A small hollow, or cavity, ( نُقْرَةٌ ,) in which water collects, in a mountain: (S:) or in a rock: as also ↓ وَقْبَةٌ : (K:) or, accord. to some, وقب is a coll. gen. n., of which وقبة is the n. un.: (MF:) pl. أَوْقَابٌ : (TA:) or وَقْبٌ , accord. to the K, (but accord. to the TA ↓ وَقْبَةٌ ,) signifies what is like a well, in a tract of hard and large stones that produce no plants, a fathom, or two fathoms, in depth, (K,) in which the rain-water stagnates. (TA.) ― -b2- The cavity, or socket, of the eye: (S:) any cavity, or socket, in the body; as that of the eye, and that of the shoulder-blade: (K:) pl. وُقُوبٌ and وِقَابٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- The pit, or cavity, above the eye of a horse: (K:) pl. وُقُوبٌ and وِقَابٌ . (TA.) ― -b4- The hole into which enters the axle of a pulley. (K.) ― -b5- See also وَقْبَةٌ . -A2- Stupid; foolish; of little sense: (S, K:) like وَغْبٌ : (S:) an epithet of a man: pl. أَوْقَابٌ : (K, TA:) fem. with ة . (TA.) ― -b2- So in the following trad. of El-Ahnaf: اـِيَّاكُمْ وَحَمِيَّةَ الأَوْقَابِ [Beware of the care with which stupid people defend their rights: a proverb]. (TA.) For الاوقاب , another relation substitutes الأَوغْاب , meaning the same, or weak persons. (TA, art. وغب , on the authority of AA.) ― -b3- See أَوْقَابٌ ― -b4- A despised, or contemptible, low, base, or ignoble, man. (Th, K.)

قِبَةٌ The thing that is in the belly, resembling the فَحِث : (TA:) the اـِنْفَحَّة [a name given to the stomach of a sucking kid, &c.] when it has grown large, of a شاة , [i. e., a sheep or goat or the like]: (K:) not in any animals but those termed شاء : (IAar:) mentioned before, in art. قب , [q. v., where it is also written قِبَّةٌ ]. (TA.)

وَقْبَةٌ A large aperture, or hole, in a wall, in which is shade: (K:) pl. أَوْقَابٌ . ― -b2- See وَقْبٌ . ― -b3- وَقْبَةُ الثَّرِيدِ , (S, K,) and الدُّهْنِ , (K,) but the latter is a mistake, and the correct word is المُدْهُنِ , [a vase for ointment], (TA,) i. q. أَنْقُوعَتُهُ , [i. e., its cavity or hollow]. (S, K.) Lth says, that ↓ وَقْبٌ signifies any cavity, hollow, or pit; as that in a [stone of the kind called] فِهْرٌ , and in a مُدْهُن , or مُدْهُنَة , q. v. (TA.)

وُقْبِىٌّ Fond of, or given to, the company of أَوْقاب , i. e., stupid, or foolish, persons. (K.)

أَوْقَابٌ [pl. of وَقْبٌ ?] The utensils and furniture, of the meaner sort, of a house, or tent: (K, TA:) as also أَوْغَابٌ . (TA.)

ذَكَرٌ أَوْقَبُ Multum penetrans in vulvam penis. (K.) ― -b2- رَكِيَّةٌ وَقْبَاءُ , A well of which the water sinks into the earth. (TA.)

مِيقَبٌ i. q. وَدَعَةٌ [The shell called cowry]. (K.)

مِيقَابٌ A man who drinks much of water: (K:) or of the beverage called نَبِيذ . (L.) ― -b2- مِيقَابٌ A stupid, or foolish, woman: or one who gives birth to stupid, or foolish, children; syn. مُحْمِقَةٌ . (K: [so in the CK: in a MS. copy, مُحَمَّقَةٌ , one to whom stupidity, or folly, is imputed: but the former is evidently the right reading; ميقاب being an epithet similar to مِذْكَارٌ and مِيءْنَاثٌ &c.]) ― -b3- Also Latam vulvam habens mulier. (K.) ― -b4- بَنُو المِيقَابِ a reproachful appellation, (K,) referring to the mother of the persons to whom it is applied. (TA.) ― -b5- سَيْرُ المِيقَابِ A journeying continued during a day and a night together. (K.)