قليب

Arabic

قَلِيب

Etymology

From the root ق ل ب‎ (q-l-b).

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)
    • ‏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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