ادبر
Root: دبر
Form: 4
Full Definition
2 [Hence,]
3 [Hence also,] ادبر signifies
4 مَا أَقْبَلَ مِنَ الجَبَلِ وَمَا أَدْبَرَ and مِنْهُ وَمَا مَا قَبَلَ signify the same [i. e. What is in front, of the mountain; and what is behind].
def.2 ادبر also signifies He made a man to be behind him.
def.3 And It, and he, caused a camel, or a horse or the like, to have galls, or sores, on the back; galled the back.
2 And His camel became galled in the back.
3 See also 1, last signification.
def.4 It is also said [app., of a man, as meaning He slit the ear of a she-camel in a particular manner, i. e.,] when the فَتْلَة [or twisted slip formed by slitting (see إِدْبَارَةٌ)] of the ear of a she-camel, it being slit, (T, [but for اذا نحرت in the TT and TA, from which this is taken, I read إِذَا بُحِرَتْ, an emendation evidently required,]) turns towards the back of the neck: and أَقْبَلَ is said in like manner when this فتلة is turned towards the face.
def.5 It signifies also عَرَفَ دَبِيرَهُ مِنْ قَبِيلِهِ, or عَرَفَ قَبِيلَهُ مِنْ دَبِيرِهِ; said of a man. (IAar. [See دَبِيرٌ.])
def.6 Also He, a man, or it, a company of men, entered upon [a time in which blew] the wind called الدَّبُور.
def.7 And He journeyed on the day called دُبَار, i. e. Wednesday.
def.8 And He became possessed of much property or wealth, or of many camels or the like.
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