Quranic root
وبر
w · b · r
The clearest semantic center is وَبَر, the fur or soft hair of animals. The root also contains distinct lexical branches for the hyrax, fur-associated names and idioms, and several derived constructions.
The sources explicitly present these as discrete, not wholly predictable lexical items: the fur/material term extends to animal and social expressions, while other branches concern truffles, residence, persistence, pollination, and named places.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
وَبَر
wabar
- Part of speech
- Noun · collective/material
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Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Fur or soft animal hair.
The Quranic form is the plural أَوْبَار and occurs in an expression listing animal materials, referring to their fur or soft hair.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:80word 20
“and their fur”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 16:80وَأَوْبَارِهَاand their fur
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 15 Classical meanings
وَبْر
The hyrax, a small desert mammal.
A nominal designation for the animal; its plural forms include وِبَار and وُبُور.
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وَبْر
One of the seven late-winter days known as أَيَّامُ العَجُوز.
Used as the name of a day, with or without the definite article according to the cited usage.
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أَهْلُ الوَبَر
People of tents, or desert-dwellers, contrasted with settled town and city people.
The expression refers to people associated with tents made from animal hair or fur.
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أَخَذَ الشَّيْءَ بِوَبَرِهِ
To take a thing in its entirety; to take the whole of it.
A fixed idiomatic construction.
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وَبِرَ / وَبِر
To have, or be characterized by, abundant fur; furry or thick-furred.
وَبِرَ is used of a camel, and the descriptive noun وَبِر is likewise applied to a camel and to similar animals such as a hare or rabbit.
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وُبِرَتِ النَّخْلَةُ / نَخْلَةٌ مَوْبُورَةٌ
A palm tree was fecundated or pollinated.
A passive construction used specifically of a palm tree; مَوْبُورَةٌ is an equivalent participial description.
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أَوْبَرَ عَلَى شَيْءٍ
To persist in, or remain constantly engaged with, something.
Constructed with عَلَى and referring to continued adherence or application to an object.
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بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ
A species of small, downy, earth-coloured truffles or truffle-like growths.
The lexicographical descriptions differ over whether they are strictly truffles; the designation concerns small growths associated with the breaking of the soil's crust.
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مِثْلُ بَنَاتِ أَوْبَرَ
People who appear to have promise or merit but prove worthless.
A figurative comparison used of persons who are thought to contain good but do not.
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لَقِيتُ مِنْهُ بَنَاتَ أَوْبَرَ
To experience disappointment, calamity, or misfortune from someone.
A fixed idiom describing an adverse experience caused by another person.
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دَاهِيَةٌ وَبْرَاءُ
An evil, foul, or abominable calamity or misfortune.
A figurative expression for a grievous adverse event.
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وَبَّرَتِ الأَرْنَبُ
A rabbit covered its trail with the fur on its foot tufts.
A specialized description of a rabbit concealing its trace with fur.
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وَبَّرَ فِي مَنْزِلِهِ
To remain or stay in one's dwelling.
A fixed usage describing remaining in place rather than departing.
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وَبَار
A land said to have belonged to the people of ʿĀd.
Reported as a place-name or geographical designation.
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وَابِر
Anyone or a person.
Attested in the expression مَا بِالدَّارِ وَابِرٌ, meaning that there is no one in the house.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic occurrence is the plural أَوْبَار, while the public headword is normalized to the supported singular/collective form وَبَر.
The identification of بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ varies in the cited lexicographical descriptions between a truffle species and similar small soil growths.