صَبِيرٌ
Root: صبر
Full Definition
2 Also A surety. You say, هُوَ بِهِ صَبِيرٌ He is a surety for him, or it.
3 And صَبِيرُ قَوْمٍ The chief, head, director, conductor, or manager, of the affairs of a people, or party: he who is patient for, and with, a people, or party, in [the managing of] their affairs: pl. صُبَرَآءُ.
4 [And accord. to Golius, A solitary man, having neither offspring nor brother: but app. a mistake for صُنْبُورٌ, which is thus expl. in the S in this art.]
def.2 Also, and صُبَارَةٌ , A white cloud; and so صِبْرٌ and صُبْرٌ , of which the pl. is أَصْبَارٌ: or white clouds; as also أَصْبَانٌ, pl. of صِبْرٌ and صُبْرٌ : or white clouds that scarcely ever, or never, give rain: or clouds, or white clouds, that become disposed one above another in the manner of steps: or a dense cloud that is above another cloud: or a stationary portion of cloud: or a portion of cloud which one sees as though it were مَصْبُورَة, i. e. detained; but this explanation is of weak authority: or, accord. to AHn, clouds remaining stationary a day and a night; as though detained: or clouds in which are blackness and whiteness: or, as some say, clouds slow in motion, by reason of their heaviness and the abundance of their water: the pl. of صَبِيرٌ is the same as the sing., or it is صُبُرٌ.
2 And صَبِيرٌ, A mountain: or الصَّبِيرُ is the name of a particular mountain.
3 [And accord. to Freytag, as from the K, in which I do not find this meaning, A hill consisting of stones.]
def.3 Also صَبِيرٌ, i. e. the صَبِير of a خَوَان [or table, or thing upon which one eats], A thin, round cake of bread, which is spread beneath the food that one eats: or upon which the food to be eaten at a wedding-feast is ladled by the maker of the bread: also called صَبِيرَةٌ .
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