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قَهْبٌ ذ [and ↓ أَقْهَبُ ] White overspread with duskiness: (A 'Obeyd, S, O, K:) fem. [of the former] قَهْبَةٌ and [of the latter] ↓ قَهْبَآءُ , (S,) [and] ↓ قَهِبَةٌ is a fem. epithet having the same meaning: (K, TA:) or white; (TA;) and so ↓ قُهَابٌ and ↓ قُهَابِىٌّ ; (Lth, O, K, TA;) or all signify thus in respect of skin, or hide: (Az, TA:) or قَهْبٌ signifies thus as an epithet applied to the young of goats and oxen, (Lth, O, TA,) and the like thereof, and in respect of skin, or hide: (Lth, O:) and ↓ أَقْهَبُ signifies dust-coloured with an inclining to blackness: (As, S, O:) or red with an intermixture of dust-colour: (IAar, S, O:) or a dusky white: (S, O:) or having a colour inclining to duskiness, with whiteness or blackness (مع البياض للسواد [which I suppose to be a mistake for مع البياض او السواد]). (TA.) -A2- Also [or app. جَبَلٌ قَهْبٌ] A great mountain; (S, K;) accord. to AA: (S:) or, accord. to him, a long mountain: (O:) pl. قِهَابٌ: or this [or جِبَالٌ قِهَابٌ?] signifies mountains of a black colour intermixed with redness. (TA.) ― -b2- And Advanced in age; (O, TA;) applied to an elder; like قَحْبٌ and قَحْرٌ: (TA:) and old in respect of origin; used in this sense by Ru-beh: (O, TA:) or [جَمَلٌ قَهْبٌ signifies] a camel advanced in age (K, TA) beyond such as is termed بَازِلٌ: (TA:) or a great camel. (AA, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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