كَلْتَبَ, inf. n. كَلْتَبَةٌ, He acted as a pimp. (IAạr.) See كَلْتَبَانٌ.

[Freytag assigns to this verb the signification Dissimulations, astutia, usus est in rebus; as from the Ḳ, with the same inf. n.: but I do not find it in any copy of that work. See, however, the next para.]

كَلْتَبٌ and كُلْتُبٌ Dissimulation, or craftiness, or deceit, in affairs: (Ḳ:) [or i. q. كَلْثَبٌ, q. v.]

كَلْتَبَانٌ A pimp: (Ḳ:) from الكَلَبُ: [see كَلِبَ]. (TA.)