كِبْرَةٌ
Root: كبر
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كِبْرَةٌ
: see كَبِيرَةٌ.
def.2 هُوَ كِبْرَتُهُمْ, and , so in the handwriting of AHeyth., and , and , and , and , He is the greatest of them in age, or in headship: or he is the nearest of them in kin to his chief, or oldest, ancestor; his intermediate ancestors being fewer in number: but some of these epithets are differently explained, as follows:] هٰذَا كِبْرَةُ أَبِيهِ this is the greatest, or oldest, (أَكْبَرُ,) of the children of his father; contr. of صِغْرَةُ أَبِيهِ: and هُوَ كِبْرَةُ وَلَدِ أَبَوَيْهِ he is the greatest, or oldest, (اكبر,) of the children of his parents: or he is the last of the children of his parents; and the like is said of a female, and of a pl. number: it is like عِجْزَةُ وَلَدِ أَبَوَيْهِ: or, accord. to Ks and Az, this last phrase has this meaning; but Az says, that كِبْرَة means otherwise, namely, أَكْبَرُ: and فُلَانٌ إِكْبِرَّةُ قَوْمِهِ such a one is the greatest, or oldest, (أَكْبَرُ,) of his people; and the like is said of a female, and of a pl. number: and هُوَ قَوْمِهِ, or أَكْبَرُ قَوْمِهِ, and قَوْمِهِ, of the measure of أُفْعُلّ, and applied to a woman as to a man, he is the nearest of his people in kin to his chief, or oldest, ancestor; in which sense, كَانَ قَوْمِهِ is said of El-'Abbás, in a trad., because there remained not, in his lifetime, any one of the descendants of Háshim more nearly related to him than he: and in another trad. it is said, الَولآءُ للكُبْرِ the right to the inheritance of the property left by an emancipated slave belongs to the nearest in kin [to the emancipater] of the sons of the emancipater; i. e., when a man [who has emancipated a slave] dies, leaving a son and a grandson, the right to the inheritance of the property left by the emancipated slave belongs to the son, not the grandson.
def.2 هُوَ كِبْرَتُهُمْ, and , so in the handwriting of AHeyth., and , and , and , and , He is the greatest of them in age, or in headship: or he is the nearest of them in kin to his chief, or oldest, ancestor; his intermediate ancestors being fewer in number: but some of these epithets are differently explained, as follows:] هٰذَا كِبْرَةُ أَبِيهِ this is the greatest, or oldest, (أَكْبَرُ,) of the children of his father; contr. of صِغْرَةُ أَبِيهِ: and هُوَ كِبْرَةُ وَلَدِ أَبَوَيْهِ he is the greatest, or oldest, (اكبر,) of the children of his parents: or he is the last of the children of his parents; and the like is said of a female, and of a pl. number: it is like عِجْزَةُ وَلَدِ أَبَوَيْهِ: or, accord. to Ks and Az, this last phrase has this meaning; but Az says, that كِبْرَة means otherwise, namely, أَكْبَرُ: and فُلَانٌ إِكْبِرَّةُ قَوْمِهِ such a one is the greatest, or oldest, (أَكْبَرُ,) of his people; and the like is said of a female, and of a pl. number: and هُوَ قَوْمِهِ, or أَكْبَرُ قَوْمِهِ, and قَوْمِهِ, of the measure of أُفْعُلّ, and applied to a woman as to a man, he is the nearest of his people in kin to his chief, or oldest, ancestor; in which sense, كَانَ قَوْمِهِ is said of El-'Abbás, in a trad., because there remained not, in his lifetime, any one of the descendants of Háshim more nearly related to him than he: and in another trad. it is said, الَولآءُ للكُبْرِ the right to the inheritance of the property left by an emancipated slave belongs to the nearest in kin [to the emancipater] of the sons of the emancipater; i. e., when a man [who has emancipated a slave] dies, leaving a son and a grandson, the right to the inheritance of the property left by the emancipated slave belongs to the son, not the grandson.
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