وَقْبٌ
1.
A small hollow, or cavity, (نُقْرَةٌ,) in which water collects, in a mountain: (S:) or in a rock: as also
وَقْبَةٌ: (K:) or, according to some, وقب is a coll. gen. n., of which وقبة is the n. un.: (MF:) plural أَوْقَابٌ: (TA:) or وَقْبٌ, according to the K, (but according to the TA
وَقْبَةٌ,) signifies what is like a well, in a tract of hard and large stones that produce no plants, a fathom, or two fathoms, in depth, (K,) in which the rain-water stagnates. (TA.)
2.
The cavity, or socket, of the eye: (S:) any cavity, or socket, in the body; as that of the eye, and that of the shoulder-blade: (K:) plural وُقُوبٌ and وِقَابٌ. (TA.)
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4.
The hole into which enters the axle of a pulley. (K.)
5.
See also وَقْبَةٌ.
6.
Stupid; foolish; of little sense: (S, K:) like وَغْبٌ: (S:) an epithet of a man: plural أَوْقَابٌ: (K, TA:) feminine with ة. (TA.)
7.
So in the following tradition of El-Ahnaf: إِيَّاكُمْ وَحَمِيَّةَ الأَوْقَابِ [Beware of the care with which stupid people defend their rights: a proverb]. (TA.) For الاوقاب, another relation substitutes الأَوغْاب, meaning the same, or weak persons. (TA, article وغب, on the authority of AA.)
8.
See أَوْقَابٌ