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قَرَنْبَى ذ An insect resembling the [beetle called] خُنْفَسَآء, or somewhat larger than the latter, with long hind-legs: (As, T, TA:) or an insect with long hind-legs, resembling the خنفسآء, (S, O, Meyd,) but somewhat larger, (S, O,) having a speckled back. (Meyd.) It is said in prov., القَرَنْبَى فِى عَيْنِ أُمِّهَا حَسَنَةٌ [The karembà in the eye of its mother is beautiful]. (S, O, Meyd. [Mentioned in the S and O, in art. قرب.]) [See اِبْنُ الفَاسِيَآءِ, in art. فسو.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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