كَوْكَب

kawokabN * i. q. najomN , A star; an asterism; a constellation: as also ↓ kawokabapN : (S, K:) or Alkwkbp is an appellation given to the planet Venus; and for the rest of the stars, the masc. word kwkb is used: (Az:) but Venus is called also Alkwkb . (MF.) [Pl. kawaAkibu .] ― -b2- Accord. to Lth, kwkb is a quadriliteral-radical word; the w being a radical letter: it is also said to be from wkb , or from kwb ; though k is not one of the letters of augmentation; so that here it must be augmentative contrary to rule. (TA.) [But I rather think that it is an arabicized word, from the Hebrew כוֹכָב ; and that ignorance of its being so has caused the Arabs to dispute respecting its formation.] ― -b3- *ahabuwA taHota kul~i kawokabK They became dispersed [as though under every tract of heaven]. (AO, S, K.) ― -b4- kawokabN (assumed tropical:) Drops [ of dew ] that fall upon herbage in the night, (K,) and become like stars. (TA.) ― -b5- The source, or spring, of a well. (K.) ― -b6- Water. (El-Muärrij, K.) ― -b7- (assumed tropical:) The lustre, or brightness, or glistening, of iron. (S, K.) ― -b8- (assumed tropical:) A sword. (K.) ― -b9- A nail: (K:) [or more probably, (assumed tropical:) its head, as in Golius] ― -b10- kawokabN (AZ, K) and ↓ kawokabapN (TA) (assumed tropical:) A whiteness in the eye: (K:) a whiteness in the black part of the eye, whether the sight be gone in consequence thereof, or not. (AZ.) ― -b11- kawokabN A tract, such as is termed xiT~ap , differing in colour from the land in which it lies. (K.) ― -b12- (assumed tropical:) A youth nearly of the age of puberty: (K:) a youth who has attained the period of adolescence, and whose face has become beautiful, is called kawokabN mumotaliy^N (a full star), like as he is called badorN . (TA.) [See $aAdixN , and muTab~ixu .] ― -b13- (assumed tropical:) The chief, lord, or prince, and horseman, or cavalier, of a people. (K.) ― -b14- (assumed tropical:) A man with his arms; an armed man. (K.) ― -b15- (assumed tropical:) What is tall of plants. (K.) ― -b16- A mountain: (K [but Freytag mentions, that in some copies, for jabalN , is read xayolN , horses and horsemen, or a troop of horse: ]) or the main part thereof. (TA.) ― -b17- The greater part, chief part, main, gross, mass, or bulk, of a thing: (S, K:) as of herbage, water, an army. (TA.) ― -b18- (tropical:) The flower, or flowers, of a garden, or meadow. (TS, K.) ― -b19- The fuTor [ toadstool, or mushroom ], a well-known plant: (AHn, K:) I do not mention it, says AHn, from a learned man: but kwkb is [explained by lexicologists only as] the name of a well-known plant, called kwkbu AlA^aroDi : (L:) perhaps a species of the fuTor . (El-Mak- disee, cited by MF.) -A2- Vehemence of heat: (K:) the greater part of the heat. (TA.) ― -b2- The medicament called Taloq , q. v., [which defends the person who is anointed therewith from the burning of fire]. (K: explained by the words AlT~aloqu mina AlA^adowiyapi : in some copies of the K, mn AlA^awodiyapi . [This is wrong: kawokabu AlA^aroDi means Talc: see TalaqN .]) -A3- yawomN *uw kawaAkiba A day of difficulties, distresses, or calamities. (K.) -A4- kawokabN A place of con- finement. (K.)