kaviybN * A thing collected together. (Msb.) ― -b2- A hill, or heap, of sand: (S, K:) or an oblong and gibbous hill of sand: or an extended gibbous hill [or an elevated expanse ] of sand: or what has collected, of sand, and assumed a gibbous shape: (TA:) or what has poured down, of sand, into a place, and collected there: (S:) [less than what is called EaqanoqalN , q. v.:] pl. kuvobaAnN (S, K) and kuvubN and A^akovibapN : (K:) [the last a pl. of pauc.]. ― -b3- wkaAnati AljibaAlu kaviybFA muhiylFA [Kur, lxxiii. 14,] signifies And the mountains shall be sand, whereof the lower part being shaken, it shall pour down upon thee from above. (Fr.) ― -b4- valaAvapN EalaY kuvubi Almisoki , or kuvobaAni Almsk , [ Three (descriptions of men shall be, on the day of resurrection,) on hills, or heaps, of musk ]. (TA, from a trad.)
The corpus record — Arabic
كَثِيب
kathiyb
kaviybN * A thing collected together. (Msb.) ― -b2- A hill, or heap, of sand: (S, K:) or an oblong and gibbous hill of sand: or an extended gibbous hill [or an elevated expanse ] of sand: or what has collected, of sand, and assumed a gibbous shape: (TA:) or what has poured down, of sand, into a plac
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What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
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- كَثِيبًا Quran 73:14 (Al-Muzzammil 14)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.