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خَبِيرٌ

Root: خبر

Full Definition

خَبِيرٌ Knowing; having knowledge; as also خَبِرٌ : or possessing much knowledge with respect to internal things; like شَهِيدٌ with respect to external things: (L in art. شهد:) or possessing knowledge of matters of information, news, tidings, accounts, narratives, or stories; of what is termed خَبَرٌ; or of what are termed أَخْبَار; as also خَابِرٌ and خَبِرٌ , which last is thought by ISd to be a possessive [as distinguished from a verbal] epithet, [or it is from خَبِرَ, a form which ISd may not have known,] and خُبْرٌ , which is an intensive epithet: also informed; possessing information. You say, أَنَا بِهِ خَبِيرٌ I have knowledge of it. And [hence] الخَبِيرُ is a name of God, meaning He who knoweth what hath been and what is or will be: or He who well knoweth the internal qualities of things.
2 Also Possessing knowledge of God, by being acquainted with his names and his attributes.
3 A lawyer; one skilled in the law, or practical religion.
4 A head, or chief.

def.2 A tiller, or cultivator, of land.

def.3 Fur, or soft hair, syn. وَبَرٌ, of camels, and of the wild ass.
2 Hair that has fallen: and with ة, a portion thereof. [See also خَبِيرَةٌ below.]
3 Plants, or herbage; fresh herbage: likened to the وَبَر of camels, because growing like the latter: and seed-produce. It is said in a trad., نَسْتَخْلِبُ الخَبِيرَ We cut with the reaping-hook, and eat, the plants, or herbage.
4 Froth, or foam: or the froth, or foam, of the mouths of camels.

def.4 Seasoned, or made savoury.
2 See also خُبْرَةٌ.


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