سَبَرَ

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سَبَرَI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun سَبْرٌ; and ; He probed the wound; measured its depth with the مِسْبَار, i. e., with an iron or other instrument; tried, or examined, or endeavoured to learn, its depth; examined its extent.
2 سَبَرَهُ He determined, or computed by conjecture or by the eye, its measure, quantity, size, or bulk.
3 He tried, proved, or tested, it; proved it by experiment or experience; namely, anything; as also .
4 He elicited its true, or real, condition.
5 It is related in the trad. of the cave, that Aboo-Bekr said to Mohammad, لَا تَدْخُلْهُ حَتَّى أَسْبُرَهُ قَبْلَكَ Do not thou enter it until I explore it before thee, and see if there be in it any one, or anything that may hurt.
6 مَفَازَةٌ لَا تُسْبَرُ A desert of which the extent cannot be known.
7 سَبَرْتُ فُلَانًا [I searched into such a one]. — فُيهِ خَيْرٌ كَثِيرٌ لَا يُسْبَرُ [In him is much good, the extent of which cannot be known].
8 أَمْرٌ عَظِيمٌ لَا يُسْبَرُ [A great affair, of which the uttermost cannot be known].
9 اُسْبُرْ لِى مَا عِنْدَهُ Learn thou for me what he has [in his mind, or in his possession].
10 سَبَرْتُ القَوْمَ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun سَبْرٌ, I observed the people attentively, with investigation, one after another, that I might know their number.

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