إِبْرَةٌ

A needle; (T, Msb;) an iron مِسَلَّة: (M, K:) plural إِبَرٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and إِبَارٌ. (M, K.)

(tropical:) The sting, or extremity of the tail, of a scorpion; (S, * M, A, K;) as also مِيءْبَرٌ; of which latter the plural is مَابِرُ: (A:) and of a bee. (A.)

(tropical:) The extremity of a horn. (A.)

(tropical:) The [privy] member of a man. (TA.)

إِبْرَةٌ الذِّرَاعِ (tropical:) The extremity of the elbow; (Zj in his Khalk el-Insán; and A;) the extremity of the ذِرَاع [here meaning the ulna] of the arm, (K,) from which the measurer by the cubit measures; (TA;) [this being always done from the extremity of the elbow;] the extremity of the bone from which the measurer by the cubit measures: the extremity of the os humeri which is next to the elbow is called the قَبِيح; and the زُجّ of the elbow is between the قبيح and the ابرة الذراع: (T:) or a small bone, the head of which is large, and the rest slender, compactly joined to the قبيح: (TA voce قبيح:) or the slender part of the ذراع: (S, M: or a bone, (as in some copies of the K,) or small bone, (as in other copies of the K and in the M,) which latter is the right reading, (TA,) even with the extremity of the زَنْد [which is applied to the ulna and to the radius] of, or from, (من,) the ذراع [or fore arm] to the extremity of the finger. (M, K.)

الإبْرَةُ also signifies (tropical:) The bone of what is termed وَتَرَةُ [i. e. of the heel-tendon of a man, or of the hock of a beast], (M, K,) which is a small bone adhering to the كَعْب [i. e. to the ankle or to the hock]: (M, TA:) and [apparently more correctly “or”] the slender part of the عرقوب [or hock] of the horse: (M, * K, * TA:) in the عرقوبان [or two hocks] are [what are termed] إِبْرَتَانِ, which are the external extremity of each hock. (S.)