Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صبّرهُ

Root: صبر

Form: 2

Full Definition

صبّرهُII , Verbal.Noun تَصْبِيرٌ, He urged him, or made him, to be patient, by a promise of reward: or he said to him, Be thou patient: and صَبَرَهُ he made him to be patient: or the former, he commanded him, or enjoined him, to be patient; as also اصبرهُ : and the first, he required of him that he should be patient: and اصبرهُ , he attributed to him (جَعَلَ لَهُ) patience; as also .
2 See also 1, second sentence.

def.2 صبّروا طَعَامَهُمْ: see 1, last sentence.
2 صبّر الشَّىْءَ, Verbal.Noun as above, He heaped up the thing.

def.3 [صبّر also signifies He embalmed a dead body with صَبِر, meaning accord. to Freytag myrrh; but for this I know not any authority: he mentions the verb as occurring in this sense in “ Hamak. Waked. ” p. 94, last line.

def.4 Also He ballasted a ship: used in this sense in the present day. See صَابُورَةٌ.]


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