وَقْبَةٌ
1.
A large aperture, or hole, in a wall, in which is shade: (K:) plural أَوْقَابٌ.
2.
See وَقْبٌ.
3.
وَقْبَةُ الثَّرِيدِ, (S, K,) and الدُّهْنِ, (K,) but the latter is a mistake, and the correct word is المُدْهُنِ, [a vase for ointment], (TA,) i. q.
أَنْقُوعَتُهُ, [i. e., its cavity or hollow]. (S, K.) Lth says, that
وَقْبٌ signifies any cavity, hollow, or pit; as that in a [stone of the kind called] فِهْرٌ, and in a مُدْهُن, or مُدْهُنَة, q. v. (TA.)