قَتَبٌ

A small رَحْل [or camel's saddle], (S, O,) or a small [camel's saddle such as is called إِكَاف, (ISd, K,) of a size corresponding to the hump: (S, ISd, O, K:) or [a sort of pack-saddle for a camel; i. e.] the إِكَاف that is put upon such beasts [or camels] as transport burdens: (A:) or [simply] i. q. إِكَافٌ; as also قِتْبٌ; but the former is the more common: (K:) or the قِتْب is only what belongs to the سَانِيَة [meaning as explained in the next preceding paragraph], (As, TA,) or to the camel that draws water (لِلْبَعِيرِ السَّانِى); (JK;) and the إِكَاف belongs to the ass, or is common to the ass and the mule and the camel: (TA:) the قَنَب belongs to the camel: (Msb:) the word thus applied is sometimes feminine, though more commonly masculine: and its diminutive is قُتَيْبَةٌ: (TA:) the plural is أَقْتَابٌ, (Sb, A, Msb, K, TA,) only, (Sb, TA.) It is said in a tradition that the woman on the occasion of her bringing forth used to be seated upon a قَتَب, in order that her parturition might be more easy. (O.)

هُوَ قَنَبٌ يَعَضُّ بِالغَارِبِ (tropical:) [lit. He is a saddle that pinches the fore part of the hump] and قَتَبٌ مِلْحَاحٌ (tropical:) [a pinching, galling, saddle] are said of an importunate person. (A.)