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الكَلْبِ

Root: ابر

Form: 1

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الكَلْبِI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun أَبْرٌ, He gave the dog, to eat, a needle in bread: and [app., in like manner, أَبَرَ الشَّاةَ he gave the sheep, or goat, to eat, a needle in its fodder: for you say,] أُبِرَتِ الشَّاة the sheep, or goat, ate a needle in the fodder.
2 أَبَرَتْهُ العَقْرَبُ The scorpion stung him with the extremity of its tail.
3 أَبَرَهُ He spoke evil of him behind his back, or in his absence, or otherwise, with truth, or though it might be with truth; or defamed him; and annoyed him, or hurt him.

def.2 أَبَرَ, Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun أَبْرٌ and إِبَارٌ and إِبَارَةٌ, He fecundated a palm-tree [by means of the spadix of the male tree, which is bruised, or brayed, and sprinkled upon the spadix of the female; or by inserting a stalk of a raceme of the male tree into the spathe of the female, after shaking off the pollen of the former upon the spadix of the female (see أَلْقَحَ)]; as also , Verbal.Noun تَأْبِيرٌ: or the latter has an intensive and frequentative signification [meaning the doing so much, or frequently, or to many palmtrees]: and the former and ↓ latter, he dressed, or put into a good or right or proper state, a palm-tree, and seed-produce, or any thing, as, for instance, a snare for catching game. You say also, أُبِرَتِ النَّخْلَةُ, and , and وُبِرَت, The palm-tree was fecundated.

def.3 أَبِرَ, Present.T ـَ He, or it, was, or became, in a good or right or proper state.
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