رَكَبٌ
1.
The عَانَة: (ISk, Msb, K:) or the place of growth of the
عَانَة, (S, K,) or of the hair of the
عَانَة: (Mgh:) [i. e. it signifies the pubes; either as meaning the hair of the mons Veneris, or the mons Veneris itself: generally the latter; and this is often meant by the term عانة alone:] or the part that slopes down from the belly, and is beneath the
ثُنَّة [q. v.] and above the pudendum: in all these senses said by Lh to be masculine: (TA:) or the pudendum (Az, Msb, K) itself: (TA:) or the external portion thereof: (K:) or the رَكَبَانِ are the roots of the two thighs, upon which is the flesh of the pudendum, (K, TA,) or upon which are the two portions of flesh of the pudendum: (TA:) the ركب is masculine: (Msb:) it is common to the man and the woman, (S, Mgh, Msb, K, *) according to Fr: (S, Msb:) or peculiar to the woman, (S, Mgh, K,) according to Kh: (S:) ElFarezdak makes it plainly common to both, saying,
[When the shaven pubes met the pubes]: (TA: [and a similar example is given in the S and Msb, as cited by Fr:]) the plural is أَرْكَابٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and أَرَاكِيبُ; (K;) the latter being plural of the former; but in some copies of the K أَرَاكِبُ, like مَسَاجِدُ. (TA.)حِينَ التَقَى الرَّكَبُ المَحْلُوقُ بِالرَّكَبِ
2.
Also Whiteness in the
رُكْبَة [or knee]. (TA.)