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الكَذُوبُ ذ and الكَذُوبَةُ (tropical:) Names of the soul. (AZ, K.) See 1. ― -b2- صَدَقَتْهُ الكَدُوبُ, [The soul (i. e. his soul) told him truth:] the soul diverted him, or hindered him, or held him back, from an undertaking, causing him to imagine himself unable to prosecute it. (TA.) One says so of a man who threatens another, and then belies himself, and is cowardly and weak. (AA.) Fr cites this hemistich: “ حَتَّى إِِذَا مَا صَدَقَتْهُ كُذُبُهْ
” Until, when his souls told him the truth, or diverted him, &c.: the poet assigning souls to the person spoken of because of the several opinions of the soul. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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