كلاب

From the root ك ل ب‎ (k-l-b) originally meaning “a predatory animal”, “a dog or a falcon”, connected especially to canine teeth or claws; “to pierce”, as well as the conception of “hunting or catching food”, “a tool or aid in acquiring food”. The sense of a clamp is borrowed from Aramaic ܟܠܒܬܐ‎ (kalbtā, “tongs, pincers; metal device used to hold something”) which also developed from the proto-Semitic sense of a claw.

• كُلَّابَة‎ (kullāba), كَلَّابَة‎ (kallāba)

كُلَّاب or كَلَّاب • (kullāb or kallāb) m (plural كَلَالِيب‎ (kalālīb))

1. pike pole, gaff
2. hook
   1. fishhook
   2. tenterhook
   3. grapple, grapnel
   4. fleshhook
   5. billhook, pruning-hook
      • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام‎ [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة‎ [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 7, Art. 35, page 405:

        ‏ويحتاج [الزعرور] إلى التسبيخ كل سنة وقد يسبخ الشجر كله ويخفف ورقها عنها بكلاب حديد مصفى حاد ماض فإن الحديد إذا دخل شيء من صدأه بعض أغصانها لهلكها وأبطلها […]‎‎

        [The azarole] needs to be plucked every year (and the whole tree may be plucked), trimming its leaves with a sharp iron hook, such as when the iron enters some rust it razes and fordoes it. […]

3. clamp
4. spur
5. talons, especially of a falcon
6. thorns

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• “klbh²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 87
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “كلاب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1114

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

كِلَاب • (kilāb) m pl

1. plural of كَلْب‎ (kalb, “dog”)