قَعْبٌ

A deep wooden drinking-cup or bowl: (S, O:) or a large vessel like the [bowl called] قَصْعَة: (Msb:) or a large, rude, drinking-cup or bowl: (A, K:) or one inclining more nearly to be small: (A, K: *) to which a solid hoof is likened: (TA:) or such as satisfies the thirst of a man: (A, K:) according to IAar, the first [or smallest] of drinkingcups or bowls is that called the غُمَر, which does not hold enough to satisfy [a man's] thirst: next is the قَعْب, which is [a cup] large enough to satisfy the thirst of a man; and sometimes it satisfies the thirst of two men, and three: and then, the عُسّ: (TA:) the plural is قِعَبَةٌ (S, O, K) and (K) قِعَابٌ and أَقْعُبٌ, (Msb, K,) the last a plural of paucity. (TA.)

And (assumed tropical:) Depth of speech, or language. (O, K, TA.) One says, هٰذَا كَلَامٌ لَهُ قَعْبٌ (assumed tropical:) This is speech, or language, having depth. (TA.)

And in the T, in article قنع, the phrase قِعَابُ الأَوْرَاقِ is explained as meaning أَقْتَاءٌ بِيضُ الأَسْنَانِ [apparently for البِيضُ الأَسْنَانِ مِنَ الأَفْتَاءِ i. e. The white in respect of the teeth, of the young; for الاوراق seems to be here used in a sense assigned to its singular, الوَرَقُ, namely, الأَحْدَاثُ, plural of الحَدَثُ, which is synonym with الفَتِىُّ, of which الأَفْتَاءُ is plural: but for this usage of قِعَاب I am unable to account: I incline to think it a mistranscription, though I do not know any word resembling it for which it may have been substituted]. (TA.)