زُنْبُورٌ
Root: زنبر
Full Definition
2 Also A young ass that is able to bear burdens.
3 And A large rat: pl. زَنَابِرُ, occurring in poetry [app. for زَنَابِيرُ].
4 Also, [as an epithet,] Light, or active; clever, or ingenious; mentioned by Abu-l-Jarráh, from a man of the Benoo-Kiláb, and he adds that it means light, or active; quick in reply; and so زُنْبُرٌ .
def.2 Also, and and زِنْبَارٌ , A certain tree, of large size, resembling the دُلْب [or plane-tree], but not wide, the leaves of which are like those of the nut-tree in appearance and scent, having blossoms like those of the عُشَر [q. v.], white tinged [with another colour], and having a fruit exactly like the olive, which, when fully ripe, becomes intensely black and very sweet, and is eaten by men like ripe dates, has a stone like that of the غُبَيْرَآء [or fruit of the service-tree], and dyes the mouth like as does the mulberry: it is planted.
2 Also, the same three words, A species of the تِين [or fig], called by the people of the towns and villages the تِين حُلْوَانِىّ; one of the strange trees of the desert: pl. زَنَابِيرُ.
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