أَوْبَرُ

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أَوْبَرُ : see وَبِرٌ.
2 بَنَاتُ أَوْبَرَ, and بَنَاتُ الأَوْبَرِ, the art. being added by poetic license, A species of كَمْأَة [or truffles], downy, (AZ, As, A 'Obeyd, T, S, M, [the epithet thus rendered is written in copies of the K مُزْغِبَةٌ, and in the T, S, M, مُزَغِّبَةٌ, but in art. زغب in the TA it seems to be indicated that it is probably مُزْغِبَّةٌ,]) small, and of the colour of earth: or, accord. to AHn, truffles (كمأة) 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: (M: see also جَبْءٌ:]) n. un. إِبْنُ أَوْبَرَ. You say, إِنَّ بَنِى فُلَانٍ مِثْلُ بَنَاتِ أَوْبَرَ [Verily the sons of such a one are like benát-owbar]: one imagines that there is good in them [when there is none]. And لَقِيتُ مَنْهُ بَنَاتَ أَوْبَرَ I experienced from him [a disappointment, or] a calamity, or misfortune.
3 دَاهِيَةٌ وَبْرَآءُ, (S, A, art. شعر), An evil, a foul, or an abominable, calamity, or misfortune. (TA, voce أَشْعَرُ, q. v.)

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