قلابه ḳulāba A (from فلب To turn) s. m. A sta- ple, hinge, link, hook, hasp.

قي ḳai A (Heb. ) s. f. Vomiting.

قبل ḳabl A (Heb. and Chald. ) 1. s. m. The anteriour part, the front. 2. adj. First. 3. adv. Before. قبل ازين ḳabl az-īn, Before this, heretofore. ¶ ḳibal, 1. Power. 2. Plenty.

قدوه ḳidwa A s. m. An example, model, leader.

قوس ḳaus A 1. s. f. A bow; the arc of a circle. 2. s. m. The sign of the archer, Sagittarius. قوس قزح ḳaus-i-ḳuzaḥ, s. f. The rainbow. (dual, قوسين ḳausain, Two bows). T.P. قوش خانه ḳush-ḵẖāna (Turkish قوش A bird) s. m. An aviary.

قلندري ḳalandar-ī A. 1. s. f. A kind of tent (having a fly to it). 2. adj. Of the ḳalandar; s. f. The practice or life of a ḳalandar.

قاهر ḳāhir A adj. m. (part. act. of قـﮩر) Vic- torious, subduing, tri- umphing. القاهره al-ḳāhira, Cairo in Egypt.

قطار ḳat̤ār A or ḳit̤ār (from Chald. To bind, to tie together; which meaning is preserved in II. conj. of قطر) s. f. A line, string (of animals), rank, order, series, row, range, file.

قرين ḳarīn A adj. Conjoined, contiguous, connected; equal, associate, friend. گردون قرين gar- dūn-ḳarīn, adj. Joined or reaching to the skies. نصرقرين nuṣrat-ḳarīn, adj. Victorious.

قاب ḳāb A (Heb. ) 1. s. f. A large dish used for serving rice, &c. in at a meal, or for kneading dough in, &c. 2. s. m. The distance be- tween the part where a bow is grasped by the hand and its extremities. قاب قوسين ḳāb-ḳau- sain, The distance of two bows, or rather of two bows from the part grasped by the hand to the extremities.