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بَوْرٌ

Root: بور

Full Definition

بَوْرٌ , in which the latter word is an Verbal.Noun [of 1] used as an epithet, Land not sown; as also بَوَارٌ , [likewise an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet,] of which the pl. is بُورٌ: or land before it is prepared for sowing or planting: or land that is left to lie fallow one year, that it may be sown the next year: and أَرْضٌ بَائِرٌ , and , and بُورٌ , [which is originally an Verbal.Noun,] or الأَرْضِ, [in which the former word may be pl. of بَوَارٌ, mentioned above,] land that is in a bad state, and uncultivated, unsown, and not planted: or left unsown. You say also, مَنَازِلُهُمْ أَصْبَحَتْ Their abodes became void, having nothing in them.
2 See also بُورٌ.
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