Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ك

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4 أَكْبَ3َ See 1. -A2- اكبّ He bent his head down towards the ground; [as also إِِلَى الأَرْضِ ↓ انكبّ , occurring in the TA, art برز;] bent himself down; stooped. (TA.) [See Kur, lxvii, 22.] ― -b2- اكبّ, (K,) or اكبّ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ, (S) and ↓ انكبّ , (TA,) quasi-pass. of كَبَّ; He fell prostrate or prone; fell upon his face: (S, K:) the former verb extr. with respect to analogy, (S,) [as quasipass. of كَبَّ: see أَحْجَمَ, and أَحْنَجَ]: [and ↓ كَبَّ , aor., app., كَبِ3َ , inf. n. كَبٌّ, he fell, having stumbled: for] كَبٌّ is the contr. of اِنْتِعَاشٌ. (S, art. تعش.) ― -b3- اكبّ لَهُ (i. e., لِلشَّىْءِ, TA) i. q. تَحَانَى (as in some copies of the K) or تَجَانَأَ (as in others): the latter [meaning He bent down towards it] is probably the correct reading. (TA.) -A3- اكبّ عَلَيْهِ, (i. e., على الشَّىْءِ, TA,) and ↓ انكبّ , (assumed tropical:) He fell to, or set about, doing it. (K.) اكبّ على الأَمْرِ يَفْعَلُهُ, and ↓ انكبّ , [He fell to, or set about, the thing, to do it]. (S.) -A4- اكبّ عَلَيْهِ, (i. e., على عَمَلٍ, TA,) and ↓ انكبّ , (tropical:) He kept, or adhered, to it; (K;) i. e., to a work. (TA.)