Discover the meaning of the term Kabt (كعبت) in Islamic vocabulary.
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Updated on 11 April 2026 at 1:05 AM
📖 2 min readThe maiden, in the form ka'uban: her breasts begin to rise; she is then ka'ab and ka'ib. (plural) kawa'ib. Al-ki'ab: the pieces of chess and dice; each is ka'b or ka'ba. Al-ka'b: the name of what rises and rounds. (plural) ki'ab. The protruding bone at the junction of the leg and the foot: each foot has two ankles, right and left. In the Quran: [al-Ma'ida, 6: 'O you who believe, when you rise for prayer, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles.']. That is the view of the philologists. The joint between the leg and the foot; it is related in al-Misbah that this is the view of Ibn al-A'rabi and a group, and al-Nawawi relates that the view of Ibn al-A'rabi is the first. According to the exegetes, the traditionists and the jurists: as the philologists said. (al-Nawawi). Among the Ja'fariyya: the raised bone on the back of the foot, lying between the joint and the metatarsus. Some attributed it to Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani; al-Muhammili and al-Nawawi said: it is not soundly transmitted from him. Al-Rafi'i related it as a view of the Shafi'is; al-Nawawi said: it is nothing, and it resembles the view of the jurists. Al-ka'ba: every house of square sides. (plural) ka'ibat and ki'ab. The chamber. The Sacred House in Mecca the august.