قليب

Arabic

Root
ق ل ب (q-l-b)
قَلِيب

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qa.liːb/

Noun

قَلِيب • (qalīb) m or f (plural أَقْلِبَة (ʔaqliba) or قُلُب (qulub) or قُلْبان (qulbān))

  1. waterhole, well (before it is walled)
    • c. 1300, Ibn Taymiyya, سئل هل يتكلم الميت في قبره:
      وثبت عنه في الصحيح أنه نادى المشركين يوم بدر، لما ألقاهم في القَلِيب […]
      It is proven of him in the Ṣaḥīḥ that he called the heathens on the day of [the Battle of] Badr, when he threw them into the pit […]

Declension

References

  • Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2005) Arabische Dialektgeographie. Eine Einführung (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 78) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 201–204
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