غبّر
Root: غبر
Form: 2
Full Definition
غبّرII
: see 5.
2 [Hence, app., as Verbal.Noun of the pass. verb,] التَّغْبِيرُ signifies The milk's becoming drawn up or withdrawn [from the udder].
def.2 غبّرهُ, Verbal.Noun تَغْبِيرٌ, He sullied, or sprinkled, him, or it, with dust.
2 See also 4, in two places.
3 [Hence,] تَغْبِيرٌ signifies also A reciting of poetry, or verses, in the praising, or glorifying, of God, in which the performers trill, or quaver, and prolong, the voice; whence the epithet مُغَبِّرَة; as though the persons thus called, being affected with a lively emotion, danced, and raised the dust: thus accord. to Lth: or the saying لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهُ, in the praising, or glorifying, of God: or it signifies, or signifies also, the reiterating the voice in reciting [the Kur-án] &c. Esh-Shá- fi'ee is related to have said that, in his opinion, this تَغْبِير was instituted by the زَنَادِقَة [pl. of زِنْدِيقٌ, q. v.], in order that they might turn away [others thereby] from the [simple] praising, or glorifying, of God, and from the reciting of the Kur-án.
def.3 غبّر ضَيْفَهُ, Verbal.Noun as above, He gave his guest, to eat, غُبْرَان [meaning dates thus termed]: the verb thus used is like لَهَّجَ [and لَمَّجَ &c.].
def.4 مَا غَبَّرَتْ إِلَّا لِطَلَبِ المِرَآءِ is a saying mentioned by AZ [app. meaning She did not oppose and then acquiesce save for the purpose of obstinate disputation]: see غَبَرٌ.
2 [Hence, app., as Verbal.Noun of the pass. verb,] التَّغْبِيرُ signifies The milk's becoming drawn up or withdrawn [from the udder].
def.2 غبّرهُ, Verbal.Noun تَغْبِيرٌ, He sullied, or sprinkled, him, or it, with dust.
2 See also 4, in two places.
3 [Hence,] تَغْبِيرٌ signifies also A reciting of poetry, or verses, in the praising, or glorifying, of God, in which the performers trill, or quaver, and prolong, the voice; whence the epithet مُغَبِّرَة; as though the persons thus called, being affected with a lively emotion, danced, and raised the dust: thus accord. to Lth: or the saying لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱللّٰهُ, in the praising, or glorifying, of God: or it signifies, or signifies also, the reiterating the voice in reciting [the Kur-án] &c. Esh-Shá- fi'ee is related to have said that, in his opinion, this تَغْبِير was instituted by the زَنَادِقَة [pl. of زِنْدِيقٌ, q. v.], in order that they might turn away [others thereby] from the [simple] praising, or glorifying, of God, and from the reciting of the Kur-án.
def.3 غبّر ضَيْفَهُ, Verbal.Noun as above, He gave his guest, to eat, غُبْرَان [meaning dates thus termed]: the verb thus used is like لَهَّجَ [and لَمَّجَ &c.].
def.4 مَا غَبَّرَتْ إِلَّا لِطَلَبِ المِرَآءِ is a saying mentioned by AZ [app. meaning She did not oppose and then acquiesce save for the purpose of obstinate disputation]: see غَبَرٌ.
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