Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

سَبَرَ الجُرْحَ, (Ṣ, M, A, &c.,) aor. ـُ {يَسْبُرُ} (Ṣ, M, Mṣb) and ـِ {يَسْبِرُ}, (M, TA,) inf. n. سَبْرٌ; (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ;) andاستبرهُ↓; (Ḳ;) He probed the wound; measured its depth with the مِسْبَار, i. e., with an iron or other instrument; (A, Mgh:) tried, (Ḳ,) or examined, (Ṣ,) or endeavoured to learn, (Mṣb,) its depth; (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ;) examined its extent. (M.)

سَبَرَهُ † He determined, or computed by conjecture or by the eye, its measure, quantity, size, or bulk. (M, Ḳ,* TA.)

† He tried, proved, or tested, it; proved it by experiment or experience; (Ṣ, M, TA;) namely, anything; as alsoاستبرهُ↓. (Ṣ.)

† He elicited its true, or real, condition. (TA.)

It is related in the trad. of the cave, that Aboo-Bekr said to Moḥammad, لَا تَدْخُلْهُ حَتَّى أَسْبُرَهُ قَبْلَكَ † Do not thou enter it until I explore it before thee, and see if there be in it any one, or anything that may hurt. (TA.)

مَفَازَةٌ لَا تُسْبَرُ ‡ A desert of which the extent cannot be known. (A.)

سَبَرْتُ فُلَانًا ‡ [I searched into such a one]. (A.)

فُيهِ خَيْرٌ كَثِيرٌ لَا يُسْبَرُ ‡ [In him is much good, the extent of which cannot be known]. (A.)

أَمْرٌ عَظِيمٌ لَا يُسْبَرُ ‡ [A great affair, of which the uttermost cannot be known]. (A.)

اُسْبُرْ لِى مَا عِنْدَهُ † Learn thou for me what he has [in his mind, or in his possession]. (M.)

سَبَرْتُ القَوْمَ, aor. ـُ {يَسْبُرُ} and ـِ {يَسْبِرُ}, inf. n. سَبْرٌ, † I observed the people attentively, with investigation, one after another, that I might know their number. (Mṣb.)

سَبْرٌ: see سِبْرٌ.

Also The lion. (El-Mu- ärrij, Ḳ.)

سِبْرٌ (Ṣ, M, Ḳ) andسَبْرٌ↓ (M, Ḳ) The source, or origin, [of a thing,] syn. أَصْلٌ: (M, Ḳ:) pl. of both أَسْبَارٌ. (M.)

‡ Form, or appearance; figure, feature, or lineaments; external state or condition; state with regard to apparel and the like; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) or goodly form or appearance, &c.; (Ḳ;) aspect; garb, or habit; (TA;) colour, or complexion; (M, Ḳ;) beauty; (Ḳ;) brightness of countenance: (M:) pl. of both as above. (M.)

IAar says, I heard Aboo-Ziyád El-Kilábee say, I returned from Marw to the desert, and one of its people said to me, أَمَّا السِّبْرُ فَحَضَرِىٌّ وَأَمَّا اللِّسَانُ فَبَدَوِىٌّ ‡ As to garb and appearance, [thou art like] an inhabitant of a town; but as to tongue, an inhabitant of the desert. (Ṣ,* TA.)

You say, فُلَانٌ حَسَنُ الحِبْرِ وَالسِّبْرِ ‡ Such a one is beautiful and of goodly appearance. (Ṣ.) [See also حِبْرٌ.]

A woman of the desert said, أَعْجَبَنِى سِبْرُ فُلَانٍ ‡ The good condition, and flourishing state of body, of such a one pleased me: and رَأَيْتُهُ سَيِّئَ السِّبْرِ ‡ I saw him to have an altered and ill appearance of body: thus she assigned to سبر two significations. (TA.)

One says also, إِنَّهُ لَحَسَنُ السِّبْرِ ‡ Verily he is goodly in complexion and appearance. (TA.)

سِبْرٌ also signifies ‡ A characteristic by which one knows the generousness or ungenerousness of a beast. (AZ, M.)

And † One's knowledge of the fruitfulness or unfruitfulness [or the good or bad condition] of a beast. (AZ, TA.)

Also † Likeness; syn. شَبَهٌ. (Ḳ, TA. [In some copies of the Ḳ, سُبَّةٌ, which is an evident mistake.]) So in the phrase, occurring in a trad., غَلَبَ عَلَيْهِمْ سِبْرُ أَبِى بَكْرٍ † The likeness (شَبَه) of Aboo-Bekr predominated in them. (IAạr, TA.) One says also, عَرَفَهُ بِسِبْرِ أَبِيهِ † He knew him by the appearance and likeness of his father. (TA.)

Also the former (سِبْرٌ), Enmity, (Ḳ,) accord. to El-Muärrij; but Az says that this is strange. (TA.)

سَبْرَةٌ A cold morning, between daybreak and sunrise: (Ṣ, M, A, Mgh, Ḳ:) or from the time a little before daybreak to daybreak: or from daybreak to sunrise: (M:) or a cold morning during the period next after sunrise: (Mṣb:) pl. سَبَرَاتٌ: (Ṣ, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ:) which latter is also expl. as signifying the intenseness of the cold of winter, and of the year. (TA.)

سُبْرُورٌ Poor; (Ḳ, TA;) possessing no property: like سُبْرُوتٌ, in this sense, and in that following. (TA.)

‡ Land in which is no herbage. (Ḳ, TA.)

سِبَارٌ andمِسْبَارٌ↓ A probe; an instrument with which a wound is probed; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) as alsoمِسْبَرٌ↓: (Ḥam p. 818:) a twist like a wick, (T, Mṣb,) or a similar thing, (Mṣb,) which is put into a wound (T, Mṣb) to ascertain its depth; (Mṣb;) an iron or other instrument with which the depth of a wound is measured: (A, Mgh:) pl. of the first, سُبُرٌ; and of↓ the second, مَسَابِيرُ. (Mṣb.) It is said in a prov.,لَوْ لَا المِسْبَارُ↓ مَا عُرِفَ غَوْرُ الجُرْحِ [Were it not for the probe, the depth of the wound would not be known]. (A.) Andبَعِيدُ المِسْبَارِ↓ is applied as an epithet to a woman's vulva [or vagina, in an obvious sense,] by Ibn-Ḥabeeb: and accord. to the Ḳ, to a woman [in allusion to her vagina]. (TA in art. خجى.)

سَابِرِىٌّ A coat of mail made of slender rings, and strongly: (Ḳ:) so called in relation to the king Sáboor. (TA.)

Hence, (TA,) or from Sáboor, a province of Persia, (Mgh, Mṣb,) A thin, or delicate, kind of garment or cloth, (IDrd, Ṣ, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ,) of excellent quality: (Ḳ:) and anything thin, or delicate. (M.) Whence the prov., عَرْضٌ سَابِرِيٌّ (Ṣ, M,* Ḳ *) A slight exhibition: (M:) [see variations of this phrase in art. عرض, under عَرَضَ الشَّىْءَ:] said to him to whom a thing is shown in a slight manner: (Ṣ:) because the garment or cloth called سابرىّ, (Ṣ, Ḳ,) being of the best of qualities, (Ṣ,) is desired when exhibited in the slightest manner. (Ṣ, Ḳ. [See the first paragraph {1} in art. عرض; and see also عَرَضَ عَلَىَّ سَوْمَ عَالَّةٍ in the first paragraph of art. سوم.])

A certain sort of dates, (Ṣ, Mṣb, Ḳ,) of good quality. (Mṣb, Ḳ.) It is said that the best of the dates in El-Koofeh are the نِرْسِيَان and the سابرىّ. (Ṣ.)

نَخْلَةٌ سَابِرِيَّةٌ A palmtree of which the unripe dates are yellow and somewhat long. (AḤát, Mṣb.)

مَسْبَرٌ † [The internal state or condition of a man]. You say, حَمَدْتُ مَسْبَرَهُ and مَخَبَرَهُ † [I praised his internal state or condition]: (Ṣ:) andمَسْبَرَةٌ↓ also signifies † The internal state or condition; an internal, or intrinsic, quality; or the intrinsic, or real, as opposed to the apparent, state, or aspect. (TA.)

مَسْبَرَةٌ The utmost point of a wound. (M.)

See also مَسْبَرٌ.

مِسْبَارٌ: see سِبَارٌ, in four places.

It may also be applied to † A man who probes a wound. (Ḥam p. 818.)

مَسْبُورٌ Goodly in form or appearance; in figure, feature, or lineaments; in external state or condition; in state of apparel or the like. (Ḳ, TA.)