مَنْكِبٌ
1.
(masculine, Lh, K) The shoulder; i. e. the place of junction of the os humeri and the scapula, (S, K.) in a man &c; (ISd:) the place of junction of the os humeri and the scapula and the [tendon called] حَبْلُ العَاتِقِ, in a man and a bird and any other thing. (TA.) [It seems to be regarded by some as originally signifying “ a place of deflection: ” but] Sb denies its being a noun of place, because, were it so, it would be مَنْكَبٌ: he does not allow it to be included in the class of مَطْلِعٌ, because this is extr. Pl. مَنَاكِبُ. رَجُلٌ شَدِيدُ المَنَاكِبِ, signifies A man having a strong shoulder: as though the singular were applied to denote each part of the joint, and the plural to denote the whole. (TA.)
2.
هَزُّوا مَنَاكِبَهُمْ (tropical:) [They shook their shoulderjoints;] i. e., they rejoiced, or were joyful, or happy. (TA.)
3.
خِياَرُكُمْ أَلَيْنُكُمْ مَنَاكِبَ فِى
الصَّلَاةِ (assumed tropical:) [The best of you are the most easy of you in the shoulder-joints in prayer:] meaning. those of you who keep [most] still therein: or, as some say, those who [most readily] give room to such as enter the rank in prayer. (TA, from a tradition)
4.
مَنْكِبُ الفَرَسِ
The star
β
in Pegasus. (El-Kazweenee &c.)
5.
مَنْكِبُ الجَوْزَاءِ
The bright, and very great star, a, in the right shoulderjoint, of Orion. (El-Kazweenee &c.)
6.
مَنْكِبٌ (tropical:) The side of anything; or a lateral, or an adjacent, part, quarter, or tract, thereof: (K:) plural مَنَاكِبُ: example سِرْنَا فِى منكبٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ
We proceeded, or journeyed, along a side, or lateral part, of the land: and, in like manner, مِنَ
الجَبَلِ
of the mountain: (TA:) so in the Qur'an, 67:15, the plural signifies the sides, &c., of the earth: (Fr:) or its roads, according to some: (TA:) or its mountains: (Zj:) which last signification in this case is preferred by Az: (TA:) or the singular signifies an elevated place, or part, of the earth or land. (S.)
7.
المَنَاكِبٌ (tropical:) The feathers next after the
قَوَادِم; [which latter are the anterior, or primary, feathers of a bird's wing;] (K;) the feathers of the wing of a vulture or an eagle that are next after the
قوادم, which are the strongest and most excellent of the feathers; (TA:) four [feathers] in the wing of a bird, next after the
قوادم (S.) [the four secondary feathers of the wing:] in the wing of a bird are twenty leathers: the first of them are those called القوادم; the next, المناكب; the next, الخَوَا فِى: the next, الأَباهِرُ; the next, الكُلَى. (L.) It is a word without a singular (K.) ISd says, I know not a singular to it; but by analogy it should be مَنْكِبٌ. (TA.)
8.
سَهْمَهُ بِمَنَاكِبَ راَشَ
(tropical:) He feathered his arrow with feathers such as are described above. (TA.)
9.
مَنْكِبٌ (tropical:) عَرِيفٌ
i. q. The intendant, superintendent, &c., of a people or an aider, helper, or assistant, of a people: (K:) or the assistant of an
عريف: (Msb:) one below an
عريف: (IAth:) or the chief of the
عُرَفَاءُ [plural of عريف]; (Lth, S:) there being over so many عرفاء a منكب. (Lth [see عَرِيفٌ.]) plural مَنَاكِبُ. (TA.)