قُرْبَان

qarobaAnu * A vessel nearly full: fem. qurobaY : (S, O, K:) and pl. qiraAbN : (S, O:) you say qadaHN qarobaAnu maA='F i. e. [ A drinking vessel ] nearly full of water: and the q in qrbAn is [said to be] sometimes changed into k : (TA:) so accord. to Yaakoob; but ISd denies this. (TA in art. krb .) -A2- See also the paragraph here following.

qurobaAnN * : see qurobapN : [it may often be rendered An offering, or oblation: and hence it sometimes means a sacrifice, as in the Kur iii. 179:] pl. qaraAbiynu . (Msb.) qurobaAnuhumo dimaA=w^uhumo [ Their offering to God is their blood, lit. bloods, ] occurs in a trad. as cited from the Book of the Law revealed to Moses, and as referring to the Arabs; meaning, they seek to bring themselves near unto God by shedding their blood in fighting in the cause of religion; whereas the qrbAn of preceding peoples consisted in the slaughtering of oxen or cows, and sheep or goats, and camels. (TA.) And it is said in another trad., AlS~alaApu qurobaAnu kul~i taqiY~K [ The divinely-appointed act of prayer is the offering to God of every pious person ]; meaning, that whereby the pious seek to bring themselves near unto God. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, (S, A, O, K,) and ↓ qarobaAnN , (K,) but this latter is by some disapproved, (TA,) [ A near associate; or] a particular, or special, (A, K,) associate or companion (A) or consessor; (K;) or a consessor; and a particular, or special, associate or companion; (S, ISd, O;) [or a familiar, or favourite; ] of a king, (S, ISd, A, O, K,) or of a governor, or prince; (S, O;) [or of any person who is either a superior or an equal;] so called because of his nearness: (TA:) pl. qaraAbiynu : (S, A, O, K:) and one says also, fulaAnN mino qurobaAni AlA^amiyri [ Such a one is of the near associates, &c., of the governor, or prince ]; (S, O;) [for] qurobaAnN is [said to be originally] an inf. n., and [therefore, as an epithet,] the same as sing. and dual and pl.: (so in a marginal note in one of my copies of the S:) or, in a phrase of this kind, it is a pl. of ↓ qariybN . (A in art. bEd .)