كُوَارَةُ نَحْلٍ

, (S, Msb, K,) and ↓ كُوَّارَة, (Msb, K,) written in both these ways in the T, in explanation of the word عَمِيرَةٌ, (Mgh,) and ↓ كِوَارَة, (T, TS, L, K,) and ↓ كِوَار, (T, TS, L, Msb,) A bee-hive; or habitation of bees; synonym خَلِيَّةٌ: (Msb:) or a bee-hive, when made of clay: (El-Ghooree, in Mgh:) or a bee-hive, or habitation of bees, when containing honey: (Msb:) or a thing made for bees, of twigs, (T, Mgh, TS,) or of clay, (TS, K,) or of twigs and clay, according to most copies of the K, or of twigs only, according to most of the lexicologists, (TA,) like a قِرْطَالَة [an asses' pannier], (T, Mgh, TS,) narrow at the head, (T, Mgh, TS, K,) in which they make their honey: (TA:) or the honey of bees in the wax: (S, Msb, K:) or ↓ كُوَّارَاتٌ [plural of كُوَّارَةٌ] signifies domestic bee-hives; as also كَوَايءِرٌ. (AHn, K.) [Of the latter plural, it is said in the TA, that ISd holds it to be plural, not of كوارة, but, of كُوَّرَة: but the passage seems to be corrupt.]