كبة

From the root ك ب ب (k-b-b) related to toppling, rolling, or from كَبَاب (kabāb, “roast meat, kebab”) in the meatball sense, but this may also be from that root.

كَبَّة or كُبَّة • (kabba or kubba) f (plural كُبَب (kubab)) (obsolete)

1. a crowd of humans or horses
2. a compression, a crowding, a pushing forward as into battle, vehemence
3. a focal point – such as even of fire

كِبَّة or كُبَّة • (kibba or kubba) f (plural كِبَب (kibab) or كُبَب (kubab))

1. ball, globule, spherule, pellet
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام, edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة, volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, page 567 line 21:

     وضع عليه كبة من هذا الدواء

     One puts on it a globule of this remedy.

2. kibbeh, a meat-heavy dumpling
3. (obsolete) bubo, plague-tumor

• كُبَيْبَة (kubayba)
• ⇒? كُبَابَة (kubāba)

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كبة”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 436a