Arabic edit

Root
ك ع ب (k-ʕ-b)

Verb edit

كَعَبَ (kaʕaba) I, non-past يَكْعُبُ or يَكْعِبُ‎ (yakʕubu or yakʕibu)

  1. to be full and round, to be swelling (of the breasts)

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

كَعَّبَ (kaʕʕaba) II, non-past يُكَعِّبُ‎ (yukaʕʕibu)

  1. to make cubic, to cube
  2. to dice

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

كَعْب (kaʕbm (plural كِعَاب (kiʕāb) or كُعُوب (kuʕūb))

  1. knot, knob, node
  2. joint, articulation
  3. (anatomy) ankle, anklebone
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:6:
      وَٱمْسَحُوا بِرُؤُوسِكُمْ وَأَرْجُلَكُمْ إِلَى ٱلْكَعْبَيْنِ
      wamsaḥū biruʔūsikum waʔarjulakum ʔilā l-kaʕbayni
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  4. (anatomy, proscribed) heel
  5. high heels
  6. stub, counterfoil, coupon
  7. ferrule
  8. die, cube
  9. fame, glory, honor, rank

Declension edit

Noun edit

كُعْب (kuʕbm

  1. breasts, bosom

Declension edit

References edit

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كعب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 473
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كعب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 41
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “كعب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 973