كَوْكَبٌ

i. q. نَجْمٌ, A star; an asterism; a constellation: as also ↓ كَوْكَبَةٌ: (S, K:) or الكوكبة is an appellation given to the planet Venus; and for the rest of the stars, the masculine word كوكب is used: (Az:) but Venus is called also الكوكب. (MF.) [Pl. كَوَاكِبُ.]

Accord. to Lth, كوكب is a quadriliteral-radical word; the و being a radical letter: it is also said to be from وكب, or from كوب; though ك is not one of the letters of augmentation; so that here it must be augmentative contrary to rule. (TA.) [But I rather think that it is an arabicized word, from the Hebrew כוֹכָב; and that ignorance of its being so has caused the Arabs to dispute respecting its formation.]

ذَهَبُوا تَحْتَ كُلِّ كَوْكَبٍ They became dispersed [as though under every tract of heaven]. (AO, S, K.)

كَوْكَبٌ (assumed tropical:) Drops [of dew] that fall upon herbage in the night, (K,) and become like stars. (TA.)

The source, or spring, of a well. (K.)

Water. (El-Muärrij, K.)

(assumed tropical:) The lustre, or brightness, or glistening, of iron. (S, K.)

(assumed tropical:) A sword. (K.)

A nail: (K:) [or more probably, (assumed tropical:) its head, as in Golius]

كَوْكَبٌ (AZ, K) and ↓ كَوْكَبَةٌ (TA) (assumed tropical:) A whiteness in the eye: (K:) a whiteness in the black part of the eye, whether the sight be gone in consequence thereof, or not. (AZ.)

كَوْكَبٌ A tract, such as is termed خِطَّة, differing in colour from the land in which it lies. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) A youth nearly of the age of puberty: (K:) a youth who has attained the period of adolescence, and whose face has become beautiful, is called كَوْكَبٌ مُمْتَلِيءٌ (a full star), like as he is called بَدْرٌ. (TA.) [See شَادِخٌ, and مُطَبِّخُ.]

(assumed tropical:) The chief, lord, or prince, and horseman, or cavalier, of a people. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) A man with his arms; an armed man. (K.)

(assumed tropical:) What is tall of plants. (K.)

A mountain: (K [but Freytag mentions, that in some copies, for جَبَلٌ, is read خَيْلٌ, horses and horsemen, or a troop of horse:]) or the main part thereof. (TA.)

The greater part, chief part, main, gross, mass, or bulk, of a thing: (S, K:) as of herbage, water, an army. (TA.)

(tropical:) The flower, or flowers, of a garden, or meadow. (TS, K.)

The فُطْر [toadstool, or mushroom], a well-known plant: (AHn, K:) I do not mention it, says AHn, from a learned man: but كوكب is [explained by lexicologists only as] the name of a well-known plant, called كوكبُ الأَرْضِ: (L:) perhaps a species of the فُطْر. (El-Mak- disee, cited by MF.)

-A2- Vehemence of heat: (K:) the greater part of the heat. (TA.)

The medicament called طَلْق, q. v., [which defends the person who is anointed therewith from the burning of fire]. (K: explained by the words الطَّلْقُ مِنَ الأَدْوِيَةِ: in some copies of the K, من الأَوْدِيَةِ. [This is wrong: كَوْكَبُ الأَرْضِ means Talc: see طَلَقٌ.])

-A3- يَوْمٌ ذُو كَوَاكِبَ A day of difficulties, distresses, or calamities. (K.)

-A4- كَوْكَبٌ A place of con- finement. (K.)