زبر

زَبَرَ

To case or line a well with stones; to construct by arranging or setting one part upon another.

The construction sense is especially associated with stonework and the internal walling of a well.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبَرَ

To throw or pelt stones at someone.

Occurs with the object marked as being pelted with stones.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبَرَ

To rebuke, restrain, forbid, or repel forcefully.

May describe checking someone with rough speech or preventing them from doing something; it also applies to sharply repelling a beggar.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبَرَ

To write, especially firmly, skillfully, or clearly; to inscribe or engrave on stone.

The verb may take a writing or book as its object and also applies to engraving on stones.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبَرَ

To read or recite what is written.

A derived use of the writing verb; the reading may be performed in a low or faint voice.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبْرٌ

Speech or a spoken sentence.

Reported as a synonym of كلام, but the cited authority for this equivalence is explicitly questioned.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبْرٌ

Patience or endurance.

A reported synonym of صبر in the expression ما له زبر ولا صبر; another interpretation of that expression is intellect or self-restraint.

• Lane · entry 30778

زَبُرَ

To become bulky or large-bodied.

Attested of a ram.

• Lane · entry 30778

أَزْبَرَ

To become large-bodied, courageous, brave, or strong-hearted.

The bodily and character descriptions are separate applications of the Form IV verb.

• Lane · entry 30780

أَزْبَرَ

To make a ram bulky.

A causative use with a ram as the object.

• Lane · entry 30780

تَزَبَّرَ

To quake or tremble from anger.

Describes an angry person's bodily agitation.

• Lane · entry 30781

زَأْبَرَ

Of a garment or piece of cloth, to have its nap or villous surface come forth; to make such nap emerge.

The first use is intransitive and the second causative; variant forms are reported for the same cloth-related expression.

• Lane · entry 30782

اِزْبَأَرَّ

To grow forth or bristle up in hair or fur; to become hairy or bristling.

Used of fur, soft hair, herbage, and animals whose hair stands up. Of a person, it can describe becoming agitated, prepared for mischief, or affected by trembling and bristling.

• Lane · entry 30783

زَبْرٌ

Stones, including the stone casing or lining of a well.

The noun may denote the stones themselves or the stonework with which a well is lined.

• Lane · entry 30784

زَبْرٌ

Understanding, intellect, judgment, or self-restraint.

Used of sound understanding or judgment that can be relied upon; the meaning is figurative in relation to firmness.

• Lane · entry 30784

زَبْرٌ

Steadiness or constancy.

Applied to a wind that remains steady rather than veering from one direction to another.

• Lane · entry 30784

زِبْرٌ

A written thing, writing, or book.

This is the general nominal sense underlying the plural used for written books and scriptures.

• Lane · entry 30785

زَبُورٌ

A writing or book; in some usage, a divine book difficult to become acquainted with.

This broader common-noun usage is distinct from the Quranic proper name for David's book.

• Lane · entry 30785

زَبُورٌ

A book confined to intellectual sciences rather than legal statutes or ordinances.

A specialized classification of books reported in the classical lexical discussion.

• Lane · entry 30785

زَبُورٌ

The Syriac or Hebrew language.

Used in the expression لغة الزبور, the language of the Zabur.

• Lane · entry 30785

زُبْرَة

An anvil used by a blacksmith.

A specialized nominal use distinct from the sense of an iron piece.

• Lane · entry 30787

زُبْرَة

The upper back near the neck, the area between the shoulder blades, or the point where the neck joins the backbone.

It can be synonymous with كاهل and may denote the corresponding raised or solid part of the back.

• Lane · entry 30787

زُبْرَة

A collected mass of hair, especially the mane or shoulder hair of a lion.

The term can extend to hair gathered in a similar mass on another creature.

• Lane · entry 30787

زُبْرَة

A named asterism consisting of two bright stars in the region of Leo.

A technical astronomical use, also counted among the lunar mansions in the cited tradition.

• Lane · entry 30787

زُبْرَة

The breast or projecting upper breast of a beast.

A zoological body-part use, synonymous with صُدْرَة in the cited description.

• Lane · entry 30787

زِبِرٌّ

Strong or powerful.

Applied particularly to a lion or a man.

• Lane · entry 30788

زَبِيرٌ

Bulky, compact, or large in a bodily mass; of a person, strong and keen or intelligent.

The bodily description is applied to a ram, while the intellectual and strong-character description is applied to a man.

• Lane · entry 30790

زَبِيرٌ

A calamity or misfortune.

A distinct nominal use; a related variant is also reported.

• Lane · entry 30790

زَبِيرٌ

Black or black, fetid mud.

A specialized material-substance use.

• Lane · entry 30790

زِئْبِرٌ

The nap, villous substance, or fuzzy surface of a garment or piece of cloth.

It may denote the nap of fine cloth or what appears from a garment's seam.

• Lane · entry 30793

زِئْبِرٌ

In the idiom أخذ الشيء بزئبره, to take something altogether, leaving nothing of it.

A conventional figurative construction based on taking the whole surface or mass.

• Lane · entry 30793

زِئْبِرٌ

In the idiom رجع, to return disappointed or unsuccessful, without obtaining or accomplishing anything.

A conventional idiomatic use rather than a literal reference to cloth nap.

• Lane · entry 30793

أَزْبَرُ

Large in the shoulder or back mass; also annoying or hurtful.

The bodily adjective is applied to a man or lion; the latter sense is an independent adjectival use.

• Lane · entry 30800

زَبْرَاءُ

In the expression هاجت زبراء, anger has become excited or flared up.

A proverbial expression used when a person's anger becomes agitated and outspoken.

• Lane · entry 30800

مِزْبَرٌ

A writing reed or reed pen.

The implement is a reed with which one writes.

• Lane · entry 30802

مَزْبُورَةٌ

Said of a well, lined or walled internally with stones.

A passive participial description of a completed stone lining.

• Lane · entry 30805

مُزَأْبِرٌ

Having nap on a garment or piece of cloth; in a related use, causing the nap of cloth to emerge.

Variant forms distinguish a garment characterized by nap from a person or process that makes nap emerge.

• Lane · entry 30806