Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طُنُبٌ ذ (S, A, O, L, Msb, K) and ↓ طُنْبٌ (L, TA) A tent-rope: (Ham p. 687:) a rope with which the خَيْمَة and the like are tied, or made fast: (Msb:) a rope of the خِبَآء (S, O, L, TA) and of the سُرَادِق [q. v.] and the like: (L, TA:) a long rope with which the سرادق of the tent is tied, or made fast; (A, K, TA;) or, as in the M, with which the tent and the سرادق are tied, or made fast, [extending] between the ground and the طَرَائِق [pl. of طَرِيقَةٌ, q. v.]: (TA:) and also a وَتِد [app. meaning a tent-peg]; thus in the K, and the like is said in the M; those who make الوَتِدُ in the K to be conjoined with سرادق [as though the author meant that طنب signifies a long rope with which the سرادق of the tent, and the peg, are tied, or made fast,] being in error: (TA: [but in my opinion, this reading which is disallowed in the TA is more probably correct than the other: in the CK, and in my MS. copy of the K, instead of وَالوَتِدُ, we find او الوتد: in a copy of the A, او الوَتِرُ, an obvious mistranscription:]) the pl. is أَطْنَابٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and طِنَبَةٌ; (K;) and some of the lexicologists assert that طُنُبٌ is used as a sing. like عُنُقٌ, and as a pl. like كُتُبٌ; (MF, TA;) and Ibn-es-Sarráj says, in one place of his book, that it has no other pl. than أَطْنَابٌ; but in another place he says that it has this pl. accord. to those who give it a pl., thus giving to understand that there is a difference of opinion as to the plural's being allowable, and that it is used in one form as sing. and pl., which is the case: (Msb, TA:) the أَطْنَاب are the أَوَاخِىّ [pl. of آخِيَّةٌ], i. e. the long ropes of the أَخْبِيَة [pl. of خِبَآء]; the short ropes being called أُصُرٌ, sing. إِِصَارٌ: the former are the ropes with which the tent is tied, or made fast, between the ground and the طَرَائِق. (TA.) As an instance of a tropical usage, (A, TA,) it is related that when El-Ash'ath contracted marriage with a woman, (A, Nh, O, Msb, L,) namely, Meleekeh Bint-Zurárah, (Nh, Msb, L,) on the terms upon which she should decide, (A, Nh, O, &c.,) and she decided upon a hundred thousand dirhems, (A, Nh, Msb, L,) رَدَّهَا عُمَرُ إِِلَى أَطْنَابِ بَيْتِهَا, meaning (tropical:) ' Omar reduced her to the dowry of the like of her among the women of her family; (A, Nh, O, Msb, L;) [lit., to the ropes of her tent, or to the tent-ropes of her family;] i. e., to the ground whereon was built the condition of her family, and over which their tent-ropes extended. (Nh, L.) And another tropical usage occurs in the saying, مَا بَيْنَ طُنُبَىِ المَدِينَةِ أَحْوَجُ مِنِّى إِِلَيْهَا, (TA,) a saying ascribed to the Prophet, (O,) meaning (tropical:) What is between the two extremities, (O, TA,) and the two sides, (TA,) of the city is more in need of it than I. (O, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A sinew, or tendon, (S, O, K,) or ligament, (M, A,) of the body, (S, M, O, K,) that ties the joints and bones: (M:) pl. أَطْنَابٌ. (M, A.) أَطْنَابُ الأَصَابِعِ means (tropical:) The tendons of the fingers, [or the interossei,] on the outer side of the hand, extended above the سُلَامَى, from the wrist to the lowest parts of the fingers. (A, * and TA voce أَشْجَعُ, q. v.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) A certain tendon in the uppermost part of the chest: (K, TA:) [or,] accord. to the L, the طُنُبَتَانِ [or طُنُبَانِ?] are two tendons [or the sterno-mastoïdes] next the pit of the throat, that extend, or stretch, when a man turns his head aside. (TA.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) The root of a tree: (S, A, O, K:) pl. أَطْنَابٌ: (A:) or this (the pl.) signifies the minor roots that branch off from the root-stock or main body of the root. (TA.) You say, تَقَبَّضَتْ أَطْنَابُهَا (tropical:) [Its roots contracted;] meaning it was planted. (A.) ― -b5- And أَطْنَابُ الشَّمْسِ (tropical:) The rays, or beams, of the sun, that extend like sinews, or tendons, at the time of its rising. (TA.) You say, مَدَّتِ الشَّمْسُ أَطْنَابَهَا [and اِمْتَدَّتْ أَطْنَابُهَا] (tropical:) [The sun extended its beams and its beams became extended], meaning the sun rose. (A.) ― -b6- See also إِِطْنَابَةٌ.