ك • ل • ح • ب

He struck him with a sword. (K.)

: of this word, Az says, It is not known what it is: but it is related, on the authority of IAar, that it signifies The sound, and flame, of fire; or its sounding, and flaming: (as explained in the K:) or, accord. to the RA, it signifies its sound, or sounding, in what is slender, or small, as a lamp and the like. (TA.) [See also حَدْمٌ.]