ك • ن • ب

, aor. كَنُبَ , inf. n. كُنُوبٌ; and ↓ اكنب; He, or it, was, or became, gross; thick, coarse; or rough: syn. غَلُظَ. (K.) See 4. كَنَبَ He was, or became, possessed of plenty, or riches: syn. اِسْتَغْنَى. (K.) كَنَبَهُ فِى جِرَابِهِ, aor. كَنِبَ , inf. n. كَنْبٌ, He stowed it, or deposited it, in his provision-bag. (K.)

; and ↓ كَنِبَتْ, aor. كَنَبَ , inf. n. كَنَبٌ; (K;) or the former verb only is used; not the latter; (As, S;) His hand was, or became, callous, or hard, (S,) or coarse, or rough, (K,) by reason of work. (S, K.) See 1. اكنب لِسَانُهُ His tongue was impeded, or tied up. (K.) اكنب عَلَيْهِ بَطْنُهُ His belly [meaning its contents] oppressed him, or gave him pain: syn. إِشْتَدَّ. (K.)

Full to satiety; glutted with food. (K.)

Callousness, or hardness, of the hand, resulting from work: (S:) or coarseness, or roughness, of the foot, and of the hoof, and of the camel's foot, and of the hand: or of the hand only, resulting from work. (K.) -A2- See كَنِبٌ.

, of the same measure as كَتِفٌ, (K,) or ↓ كَنَبٌ, (as in the copies of the S in my hands) A certain plant: (S, K:) or a certain tree: (Lth:) AHn says, It resembles the قَتَاد growing in our country, where, sometimes, sandals or shoes are sewed with its bark, and thereof are twisted ropes which endure moisture, day-dew, or rain: and in one place he says, I asked one of the Arabs of the desert respecting the كنب, and he shewed me a scattered, small, thorny plant, with white twigs or branches, abounding with thorns, having, at the extremities, بَرَاعِيم [or calyxes, or flowers, or flower-buds,] from each of which grew forth three thorns. (TA.)

What is dry, of trees: or having its thorns broken. (K.)

i. q. شِمْرَاخٌ [i. e. the fruit-stalk of the raceme of a palm tree]. (S, K.)

and كُنَاتِبٌ Short: (K:) or thick, or coarse, and short: (TA:) or hard and strong: (see كُنْتثُبٌ:) but the ث is augmentative, (TA,) [and therefore the proper art. is كنب].

and مِكْنَبٌ: see next paragraph.

Thick, or coarse, and strong, and short. (K)

and ↓ مِكْنَبٌ A coarse, or rough, hoof; (IAar, K;) and the same words, and ↓ مُكْنَبٌ, the same as applied to a camel's foot. (IAar)