قيقب

From the root ق ب ب‎ (q-b-b), meaning “the side of an animal”, “the belly or abdomen”, where the saddle rests; suggested by Lane to ultimately be onomatopoeic in origin from the sound of a rumbling stomach. Related to ق و ب‎ (q-w-b), meaning “to carve, peel, or hollow out wood”.

• IPA^(key): /qaj.qab/

قَيْقَب • (qayqab) m (collective, singulative قَيْقَبَة‎ (qayqaba))

1. maple (Acer spp.)
2. (al-Andalus) nettle tree, hackberry (Celtis australis)

   Synonyms: مَيْس‎ (mays), نَشَم أَبْيَض‎ (našam ʾabyaḍ)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of كتاب عمدة الطبيب في معرفة النبات لكل لبيب to this entry?)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Abū al-Ḵayr al-ʾIšbīliyy to this entry?)

   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [Yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʾaḥmad ibn al-ʿawwām], José Antonio Banqueri, editor, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 7, Art. 38, page 333–334:

     ‏فأما غراسة الميس وهو القيقب وهو ضرب من النشم وإن الذكر هو النشم الأسود وثمره حب صغار سود مدحرجة في داخلها نواة. تؤكل في أكتوبر وفيها بعض الحلاوة وخشبه جيد للسروج ولغير ذلك. وتوافقه المواضع الرطبة وكل الأرض وينجب في كل مكان إلا في الأرض السوداء الحارة.‎‎

     In what concerns planting of nettle trees it is the hackberry and it is a sort of elm and the male is the black elm and its fruits are small, black, rotund berries with pips in its inner. They are eaten during October and are endowed with sweetness and its wood is good for saddles and other things. Moist spots and every earth is apt for it, and it prospers on every place except on dark, hot earth.

3. (al-Andalus, rare) strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo)

   Synonyms: قَيْقَبَان‎ (qayqabān), قَطْلَب‎ (qaṭlab), جَنَاء أَحْمَر‎ (janāʾ ʾaḥmar)

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ibn al-Bayṭār to this entry?)

4. saddle-wood, wood used for making saddles or frames
5. saddle

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “قيقب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 433
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “قب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2477–2479
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “قوب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2570–2571
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قيقب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 867