قَبْجٌ ذ , (S, M, MA, L, Msb, K, &c.,) or, accord. to MF, قَبَجٌ, (TA,) a Pers. word, arabicized, (S, M,) originally كَبْك, (M,) or كَپْك, (MA,) The حَجَل [i. e. partridge, or partridges]; (S, M, MA, L, Msb, K;) a coll. gen. n.: (S:) n. un. قَبْجَةٌ; (S, MA, Msb;) which is applied to the male and to the female; (S, Msb, K;) يَعْقُوبٌ being specially applied to the male. (S, Msb: [but see يَعْقُوبٌ:]) pl. قِبَاجٌ. (MA: in which قَبْجٌ is also termed a pl.) ― -b2- And The كَرَوَان [q. v., a name now given to the stone-curlew, or charadrius œdicnemus]. (M, L, TA.)
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