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الخَيبَرَى

Root: خبر

Full Definition

الخَيبَرَى , in some copies of the K written الخَيْبَرِىُّ, The black serpent. So in the saying, بَلَاهُ ٱللّٰهُ بِالخَيْبَرَى [May God afflict him, or it, with the black serpent]: app. because a ruined place becomes the resort of deadly serpents.

def.2 One says also, عَلَيْهِ الدَّبَرَى وَحُمَّى خَيْبَرَى [May perdition befall him, and the fever of Kheyber: الدبرى being app. an Verbal.Noun, syn. with الدَّبَار, which is used in a similar phrase (عَلَيْهِ الدَّبَارُ) mentioned in the TA in art. دبر, and خَيْبَر being altered to خَيْبَرَى, as is indicated in the S, in order to assimilate it in form to الدبرى]: the fever of Kheyber is مُتَنَاذَرَة [i. e. a fever “ against which people warn one another, ” because it is generally fatal]. [See also خَاسِرٌ.]


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