ق • س • ب

, aor. قَسِبَ , It (water) ran, or flowed: (S, O, K:) or it ran, or flowed, with a sound, beneath trees or leaves. (So accord. to different copies of the A.) And قَسَبَتِ الشَّمْسُ The sun began to set. (K.) -A2- قَسُبٌ, aor. قَسُبَ , inf. n. قُسُوبَةٌ (A, O, K) and قُسُوبٌ, (K,) It was, or became, hard: (O, K:) or hard, and dry, or tough: you say, قَسُبَ التَّمْرُ The dates were, or became, hard, and dry, or tough. (A, TA.)

[in the CK قَيْسَبَانُ] Penis durus et crassus. (K.)

[ said by Freytag to occur in the Deewán of Jereer as an epithet applied to poison, signifying Having things whereby its potency is augmented mixed with it, is evidently a mistranscription for مُقَشَّبٌ.]

[or ذَكَرٌ قَاسِبٌ?] i. q. غُرْمُولٌ مُتْمَهِلٌّ, (O, K, [المُتَمَهِّلُ in the CK is a mistake for المُتْمَهِلّ,] i. e. ذَكَرٌ صُلْبٌ [Penis durus]. (TA.)

A current, or flow, of water: (ISk, S, O:) or its current, or flow, with a sound: (K:) or its current, or flow, beneath trees: (A, TA:) or its sound beneath leaves (T, A) or rubbish. (T, TA.) -A2- See also قَسْبٌ.

Hard. (S, O, K.) You say, إِنَّهُ لَقَسْبُ العِلْبَآءِ [Verily he is hard in respect of the tendon, or sinew, of the neck.] (TA.) And Hard, and dry, or tough; (TA;) and so ↓ قَسِيبٌ. (A, TA.) تَمْرٌ قَسْبٌ signifies Hard, and dry, or tough, dates, (S, Mgh, * O, K,) that crumble in the mouth and have hard stones: (S, Mgh, O:) [see an ex. in a verse cited in art. رمى, conj. 4:] or [simply] dry, or tough, dates: n. un. with ة: (Msb:) or bad dates, (A,) or so ↓ قُسَابَةٌ. (K.) See also قِسْيَبٌّ.

A خُفّ [or boot]; (IAar, O, K;) accord. to IAar, i. q. قَفْشٌ [expl. by him as meaning a short boot] and نِخَافٌ [expl. by him as syn. with خُفٌّ]. (TA.) [See also قَسُّوبٌ.]

Boots: a word having no [proper] singular. (ISd, K.) [The word used in the sing. sense is قَسُوبٌ, without teshdeed.]

A species of شَجَر [meaning plants]; (IDrd, O, K; *) of the [kind termed] حَمْض; (K;) said by AHn to be the اصل [app. أَصْل, and, if not a mistranscription, meaning best sort,] of the حَمْض; (TA;) or, as he says, (O, TA,) in one place, (TA,) on the authority of certain of the Arabs of the desert, of 'Omán, (O,) the قَيْسَبَة is a plant (شُجَيْرَة, O, or شَجَرَة, TA) which grows in the manner of slender stalks, from one root or stem, and rises to the measure of a cubit, (O, TA,) having a leaf intensely green, round, and somewhat long, (O,) the flower of which is like that of the violet, (O, TA,) exactly; (O;) and it serves as fuel in its fresh, or moist, state, like as does the dry. (TA.)

Long, and hard, or strong; (S, O, K, TA;) as applied to anything; and so ↓ قَسْبٌ. (TA.) And A tall man. (TA.)