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سنبك

سُنْبُكٌ ذ [mentioned in the S and Msb in art. سبك, and said in the latter to be of the measure فُنْعُلٌ, The toe of a horse or mule or ass; i. e.] the extremity of the fore part of the solid hoof; (S, Msb;) or the extremity of the solid hoof (Lth, O, K) and its two sides anteriorly: (Lth, O:) pl. سَنَابِكُ. (S, O, Msb.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The extremity (T, O, K, TA) of the نَعْل [or iron shoe at the lower end of the scabbard], (T, TA,) or of the حِلْيَة [or gold or silver ornament], (O, K,) of a sword. (T, O, K, TA.) ― -b3- (assumed tropical:) The قَوْنَس [or tapering top] of an iron helmet. (O, K,) ― -b4- Of a بُرْقَع (assumed tropical:) The شِبَام [meaning each, or either, of the two threads, or strings, of the face-veil called برقع, by which the woman draws and binds the two upper corners to the back of her head]: (K, TA: [in the CK, شِيام is erroneously put for شِبَام:]) the سَنَابِك of the برقع are its شُبُم. (O.) ― -b5- (assumed tropical:) A rugged region or tract of the earth or land, in which is little, or no, good: (S, O, Msb, K:) likened to the سنبك of the solid hoof. (S, O.) And سَنَابِكُ الأَرْضِ (assumed tropical:) The extremities of the earth or land. (TA.) ― -b6- (assumed tropical:) The first of rain: (O, K:) and, (TA,) as some say, (Msb,) of anything. (Msb, TA.) One says, أَصَابَتْنَا سُنْبُكٌ السَّمَآءِ (assumed tropical:) [The first of the rain fell upon us]. (TA.) And one says also, سُنْبُكٌ مِنْ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) Preceding such a thing. (O, K.) And كَانَ ذٰلِكَ عَلَى سُنْبُكِهِ (assumed tropical:) That was in the time thereof, (O, K, TA,) and in the first thereof. (TA.) -A2- It is also said to signify The [tax called] خَرَاج: (O:) so says IAar. (TA.) -A3- And A sort of run. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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