كبث1 كَبِثَ, aor. ـَ It (flesh meat) became  altered and stinking. (S, K,) b2:  كَبَثَ, (aor.كَبُثَ, inf. n. كَبْثٌ, TK,) He covered over (غَمّ) flesh-meat, (K,) so that it became altered and stinking. (TK.) 2 كبّث السَّفِينَةَ, inf. n. تَكْبِيثٌ, He inclined the ship towards the shore, and transferred what was in it to another ship. (K.) كَبَاثٌ [coll. gen. n.] What is ripe of the fruit of the أَرَاك; (IAar, S, K;) what is unripe thereof being called بَرِير: (S:) or what has become black thereof: (TA in art. برم: [see also مَرْدٌ:]) or what is unripe thereof: (M:) or, as some say, the fruit of that tree when scattered: n. un. with ة: (TA:) the كباث are, in quantity (مِقْدَار), a little above the grains of the coriander, and fill both the hands of a man; being more than a camel takes at once into his mouth. (AHn.) لَحْمٌ كَبِيثٌ, and ↓ مَكْبُوثٌ, Flesh-meat that has been covered, (K,) [and] become [in consequence] altered and stinking. (TK.) AA explains كَبِيثٌ by the words لَحْمٌ قَدْ غُمَّ. (TA.) كُنْبُثٌ and كُنْبُوثٌ and كُنَابِثٌ Hard and strong. (K.) b2:  Also, all the three words, Contracted [in disposition], and niggardly, or stingy. (K.) Accord. to some, the ن is a radical letter. (TA.) [See also art. كنبث.]مَكْبُوثٌ: see كَبِيثٌ.