Core sense — he had much fur, said of a camelgenerated
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Said of a camel: he had much وَبَر [i.e. fur, or soft hair].
Core sense — the palm-tree was fecundatedgenerated
[The palm-tree was fecundated:] the same as أُبِرَتْ, that is, أُلْقِحَتْ.
So Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, under the article أبر.
See the article أبر.
Core sense — they set about a thinggenerated
The same as اوصبوا عليه, which see.
Under the article وصب.
Core sense — the hyrax, a small desert beast like a cat; a day of late wintergenerated
A plural [or rather a collective noun] whose singular [or ism waḥda] is with ة; or a masculine noun whose feminine is with ة, and also a plural [or collective noun].
[The hyrax Syriacus; believed to be the animal named in Hebrew;] a small beast, like the cat, or of the size of the cat, or smaller than the cat, one of the beasts of the desert, dust-coloured, or of a hue between dust-colour and white, (طَحْلَآءُ, this adjective being applied to وَبْرَةٌ,) or white, with beautiful eyes, or eyes bordered with black, or very black eyes, having no tail, or a small tail, [Golius says, on the authority of Dmr., “longiore caudâ,” which is a mistake, for it has no tail,] said to be of the weasel kind, very shy, living in low ground, and dwelling in houses [of its own or of men], or it is kept in houses and tamed; and it is eaten, because it feeds on leguminous plants: it is [said to be] a ruminant; [but this is not the case;] and so it is said in a tradition that when a man in a state of إِحْرَام kills it, he must sacrifice a sheep or goat: [a full and correct description of this animal is given in the article “Shaphan” of Dr. Kitto's “Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature.”]
Plural وِبَارٌ, وُبُورٌ, وِبَارَةٌ, and إِبَارَةٌ, with hemzeh in the place of the و.
Said because the marrow of the webr comes out easily.
These are seven days, falling at the end of winter.
Or it is called وَبْرٌ, without the article, for the Arabs say صِنٌّ وَصِنَّبُرْ وَأَخَيُّهُمَا وَبْرْ [Sinn and Sinnabr and their little brother Webr]: but this may be for the sake of the rhyme.
Core sense — fur, or soft hair, of the camel and the likegenerated
The صُوف [here meaning the fur, or soft hair,] of the camel, of the hare or rabbit, and the like; and likewise that of the سَمُّور [or sable], of the fox, and of the فَنَك [or marten].
Or it is to the camel what wool is to the sheep; and so also for the hare or rabbit, and the like.
Originally a maṣdar. Ism waḥda with ة; plural أَوْبَارٌ.
So called because they make their tents of the وَبَر of camels [as well as of goat's hair, which is not included in the term وَبَرٌ but is called شَعَرٌ].
Opposed to أَهْلُ المَدَرِ, the people of the cities and of the towns and villages.
See also مَدَرٌ.
Also أَخَذَهُ بِزَوْبَرِهِ.
Core sense — having much fur, said of a camelgenerated
A camel having much وَبَر [i.e. fur, or soft hair]; and likewise a hare or rabbit, and the like.
Also أَوْبَرُ.
Feminine of the first, وَبِرَةٌ; of the second, وَبْرَآءُ.
Core sense — having much fur; a small downy truffle; a calamitygenerated
See وَبِرٌ.
AZ, As and A 'Obeyd, with the T, S and M, describe it as downy. [The adjective so rendered is written in copies of the K مُزْغِبَةٌ, and in the T, S and M مُزَغِّبَةٌ, but in the article زغب in the TA it seems to be indicated that it is probably مُزْغِبَّةٌ.]
Or, according to AHn, truffles like pebbles, small, found in places where they have broken through the crust of the soil, in number from one to ten; they are bad in flavour, and are the first of كمأة. Or, as he says in another place, they are like كمأة but are not كمأة, and they are small. [See also جَبْءٌ.]
Ism waḥda إِبْنُ أَوْبَرَ, according to As and A 'Obeyd.
So As and A 'Obeyd.
One imagines that there is good in them [when there is none].
Under the article شعر.
See also أَشْعَرُ.
Core sense — a palm-tree that has been fecundatedgenerated
The same as مَأْبُورَةٌ. So Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, in the same place.