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قُنْبٌ ذ The sheath of the penis (S, A, O, K) of a beast, or of a solid-hoofed animal, (K,) [i. e.] of the horse, (S, A, O,) and of other than the horse (S, O) among the solid-hoofed; (S;) or originally, of the solid-hoofed, and afterwards used in relation to others, as of the camel. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] قُنْبُ الأَسَدِ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) The sheath of the penis of the Lion, is a name by which the Arabs call the star [b] upon the hinder part of the tail of Leo: [this, is should be observed, is the place of the star in the figure of Leo commonly known; but the ancient Arabs, or many of them, extended the figure of that constellation (as they did also that of Scorpio) far beyond the limits which we assign to it: (see الذِّرَاعُ:) another meaning of قُنْب in relation to a lion, which will be found below, may perhaps be intended in this case, but I think it unlikely:] the Arabs also called the same star الصَّرْفَةُ [q. v.]. (Kzw.) ― -b3- [Hence, likewise,] قُنْبٌ signifies also (tropical:) The بَظْر of a woman; (K;) [meaning the prepuce of the clitoris; as being likened to a قُنْب properly so called; i. e.] it is metonymically [thus] applied to the part that is circumcised, of a woman. (JK, A.) ― -b4- See also قِنَابٌ, in two places. -A2- Also A large sail, (O, K,) one of the greatest of the sails of a ship. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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