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The corpus record — Arabic

وَقَبَ

waqaba

waqobN * A small hollow, or cavity, ( nuqorapN ,) in which water collects, in a mountain: (S:) or in a rock: as also ↓ waqobapN : (K:) or, accord. to some, wqb is a coll. gen. n., of which wqbp is the n. un.: (MF:) pl. A^awoqaAbN : (TA:) or waqobN , accord. to the K, (but accord. to the TA ↓ waqobap

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What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

waqobN * A small hollow, or cavity, ( nuqorapN ,) in which water collects, in a mountain: (S:) or in a rock: as also ↓ waqobapN : (K:) or, accord. to some, wqb is a coll. gen. n., of which wqbp is the n. un.: (MF:) pl. A^awoqaAbN : (TA:) or waqobN , accord. to the K, (but accord. to the TA ↓ waqobapN ,) signifies what is like a well, in a tract of hard and large stones that produce no plants, a fathom, or two fathoms, in depth, (K,) in which the rain-water stagnates. (TA.) ― -b2- The cavity, or socket, of the eye: (S:) any cavity, or socket, in the body; as that of the eye, and that of the shoulder-blade: (K:) pl. wuquwbN and wiqaAbN . (TA.) ― -b3- The pit, or cavity, above the eye of a horse: (K:) pl. wuquwbN and wiqaAbN . (TA.) ― -b4- The hole into which enters the axle of a pulley. (K.) ― -b5- See also waqobapN . -A2- Stupid; foolish; of little sense: (S, K:) like wagobN : (S:) an epithet of a man: pl. A^awoqaAbN : (K, TA:) fem. with p . (TA.) ― -b2- So in the following trad. of El-Ahnaf: A_iy~aAkumo waHamiy~apa AlA^awoqaAbi [ Beware of the care with which stupid people defend their rights: a proverb]. (TA.) For AlAwqAb , another relation substitutes AlA^awgoAb , meaning the same, or weak persons. (TA, art. wgb , on the authority of AA.) ― -b3- See A^awoqaAbN ― -b4- A despised, or contemptible, low, base, or ignoble, man. (Th, K.)

In the wild

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.