جبر

جَبَرَ

To set a broken bone, reduce it from a fractured state, or restore it to sound condition.

Used transitively for the bone-setter's action and in related usage of a bone becoming set or restored.

• Lane · entry 45862

جَبَرَ

To restore a person, orphan, poor man, or other thing from deficiency or damage to a sound, sufficient, or good condition; to confer the benefit that repairs a lack.

A figurative or extended restoration sense, including recovery from poverty or embarrassment and putting affairs right.

• Lane · entry 45862

جَبَرَ

To compel or constrain someone, against his will, to do something or to submit to a judgment.

The construction جَبَرَهُ عَلَى is used for coercion; the lexical idea is forceful imposition.

• Lane · entry 45862

أَجْبَرَ

To impute to someone the doctrine of جَبْر, or to call him a partisan of that doctrine.

A specialized denominational use, distinct from ordinary physical or personal compulsion.

• Lane · entry 45864

تَجَبَّرَ

To recover what had been lost, regain a good condition, or return to growth and vigor; of a plant, to become green and put forth fresh shoots after drying or being eaten.

An intransitive or middle restoration sense applied to people, property, health, and vegetation.

• Lane · entry 45865

تَجَبَّرَ

To magnify oneself and behave proudly, haughtily, or insolently.

A reflexive or self-directed expression of arrogant conduct.

• Lane · entry 45865

تَجَبَّرَ

To acquire wealth or property.

An extended intransitive use reported for the derived verb.

• Lane · entry 45865

اِجْتَبَرَ

To recover from a calamity or from a condition from which recovery is difficult.

Used in the construction of a calamity that cannot be recovered from, with the negative expressing the absence of recovery.

• Lane · entry 45867

اِسْتَجْبَرَ

To exert oneself greatly in caring for someone or in putting that person's affairs into proper condition.

A causative-seeking construction focused on sustained attention and repair of another's circumstances.

• Lane · entry 45868

جَبْرٌ

An addition or completion made in calculation to repair or complete an amount; hence algebra.

A technical mathematical use, including the expression الجَبْرُ وَالمُقَابَلَةُ.

• Lane · entry 45869

جَبْرٌ

The theological doctrine that human beings are compelled by God in their actions, denying independent voluntary efficacy to them.

A post-classical technical theological term, contrasted with قَدَر.

• Lane · entry 45869

جَبْرٌ

A king; also, in reported contrasting nominal uses, a slave or servant, a man, a young man, or a courageous man.

These are lexical nominal applications reported under the same form and include explicitly contrasting senses.

• Lane · entry 45869

جَبْرٌ

Possibly aloes-wood.

A tentative and textually uncertain identification in the lexical tradition; it may reflect a corrupted explanation.

• Lane · entry 45869

جَبَرِيَّةٌ

Self-magnification, pride, haughtiness, or insolent behavior—the quality associated with a جَبَّار.

A noun for the disposition or conduct of arrogant domination, distinct from the name of the theological sect.

• Lane · entry 45872

جَبَرِيَّةٌ

The theological sect or doctrine asserting that human beings have no independent power and are compelled in their actions.

A technical post-classical designation, with variant pronunciations and forms reported in the tradition.

• Lane · entry 45872

جَبْرَئِيلُ

The proper name of the angel Gabriel.

A foreign or compound proper name with numerous dialectal and orthographic variants.

• Lane · entry 45878

جُبَارٌ

A matter for which no retaliation, blood compensation, or other monetary liability is exacted; a death or injury treated as unavenged or uncompensated.

Used in legal and customary expressions concerning wells, mines, wars, wounds, and injuries caused by an unattended animal.

• Lane · entry 45883

جُبَارٌ

Clear or quit of a matter.

Occurs in the idiomatic expression أَنَا مِنْهُ خَلَاوَةٌ وَجُبَارٌ.

• Lane · entry 45883

جُبَارٌ

A torrent, or anything that corrupts, mars, and destroys.

The torrent sense may be extended to a destructive force or to something destroyed by such a force.

• Lane · entry 45883

جُبَارٌ

Tuesday.

An ancient name used in the pre-Islamic period.

• Lane · entry 45883

جِبَارَةٌ

A splint or piece of wood used to set a broken bone or restore a diseased part to sound condition.

Its plural is جَبَائِر; the related form جَبِيرَةٌ is also reported.

• Lane · entry 45885

جِبَارَةٌ

A wide bracelet or armlet of gold or silver.

The ornament sense is associated by resemblance with a splint; related usage includes a smooth armlet or bracelet.

• Lane · entry 45885
• Mufradāt · row 223

جَبَّارٌ

A name for the constellation Orion.

A figurative naming based on its representation as a crowned king on a throne.

• Lane · entry 45888

جَبَّارٌ

In ذِرَاعُ الجَبَّارِ, the cubit of a king or a long cubit.

A conventional measurement expression; the term may refer to a foreign king whose forearm was unusually long.

• Lane · entry 45888

جَبَّارٌ

A heart that does not accept admonition or admit compassion.

A figurative description of hardness and imperviousness of heart.

• Lane · entry 45888

جَبَّارٌ

Of a palm tree, tall, young, and beyond the reach of the hand.

Applied to a single palm or collectively to palms; the feminine form may denote a young palm that has reached full height and borne fruit.

• Lane · entry 45888

جَبَّارٌ

Huge, tall, and strong; a giant.

An extended descriptive use for exceptional size and strength.

• Lane · entry 45888

جَبَّارٌ

Of a she-camel, great and fat.

The animal-specific application is explicitly reported for this adjective.

• Lane · entry 45888

جَابِرٌ

Bread or a preparation of bruised and cooked grain; also the ear of corn in a related expression.

A lexicalized food name, including the expressions جَابِرُ بْنُ حَبَّةَ and أَبُو جَابِرٍ.

• Lane · entry 45893

جَابِرٌ

One who exerts himself greatly in caring for someone or restoring that person's affairs to proper condition.

Used in the construction فُلَانٌ جَابِرٌ لِي.

• Lane · entry 45893

مُجَبِّرٌ

A bone-setter, one who sets bones or reduces fractures.

An active participial occupational noun.

• Lane · entry 45897

مَجْبُورَةٌ

A woman possessed by a jinn, equivalent in the cited usage to a madwoman.

A rare and explicitly weakly attested lexical use.

• Lane · entry 45898

المُتَجَبِّرُ

The lion.

A lexicalized animal name associated with forceful or domineering behavior.

• Lane · entry 45899