كِبْرٌ
Root: كبر
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كِبْرٌ
Greatness [in corporeal substance, and in estimation or rank or dignity].
2 Nobility; eminence; highness; as also كُبْرٌ : eminence, or highness, in, or with respect to, nobility; as also كُبُرٌ , with two dammehs.
3 I. q. عَظَمَةٌ [which, as an attribute of God, signifies greatness, or majesty, or the like: (see مُنَكَبِّرٌ:) and as an attribute of a man, pride]: a subst. from التَّكَبُّرُ: as also كِبْرِيَآءُ ; a word, says Kr, of which there is not the like [in measure], except سِيمِيَآءُ and جِرْبِيَآءُ; for, he adds, as to كِيمِيَآءُ, I think it a foreign word: the latter [ ] occurs as an attribute of God, in the sense of عَظَمَةٌ, in the Kur, xlv. 36: and as an attribute of men, in the Kur, x. 79, where it is said to signify proud behaviour towards others, or dominion: and both signify pride, haughtiness, or insolence: or the former, self-admiration, or self-conceit; and the holding one's self greater than others: and the ↓ latter, disdain of submission; an attribute to which none but God has a right.
4 Unbelief: the association of any other being with God. So in a trad., in which it is said, that he who has in his heart the weight of a grain of mustard-seed of كِبْر shall not enter paradise.
5 See also كَبِيرَةٌ.
def.2 The main, or greater, or greatest, part of a thing; as also كُبْرٌ , like عُظْمٌ; thought by Ibn-ElYezeedee to be a dial. form; but Az says, that the Arabs used the other form [كِبْرٌ]. So in the Kur, xxiv. 11, وَٱلَّذِى تَوَلَّى كِبْرَهُ And he who took upon himself, or undertook, the main part thereof; namely, of the very wicked lie against 'Áïsheh: thus accord. to the “ Seven Readers ”: and , which is an extr. reading, the reading of Homeyd Ibn-El-Aaraj, and of Yaakoob. كُبْرُ سِيَاسَةِ النَّاسِ فِى المَالِ, [app. signifies The main part of men's management is with respect to property, or camels, &c.].
2 Nobility; eminence; highness; as also كُبْرٌ : eminence, or highness, in, or with respect to, nobility; as also كُبُرٌ , with two dammehs.
3 I. q. عَظَمَةٌ [which, as an attribute of God, signifies greatness, or majesty, or the like: (see مُنَكَبِّرٌ:) and as an attribute of a man, pride]: a subst. from التَّكَبُّرُ: as also كِبْرِيَآءُ ; a word, says Kr, of which there is not the like [in measure], except سِيمِيَآءُ and جِرْبِيَآءُ; for, he adds, as to كِيمِيَآءُ, I think it a foreign word: the latter [ ] occurs as an attribute of God, in the sense of عَظَمَةٌ, in the Kur, xlv. 36: and as an attribute of men, in the Kur, x. 79, where it is said to signify proud behaviour towards others, or dominion: and both signify pride, haughtiness, or insolence: or the former, self-admiration, or self-conceit; and the holding one's self greater than others: and the ↓ latter, disdain of submission; an attribute to which none but God has a right.
4 Unbelief: the association of any other being with God. So in a trad., in which it is said, that he who has in his heart the weight of a grain of mustard-seed of كِبْر shall not enter paradise.
5 See also كَبِيرَةٌ.
def.2 The main, or greater, or greatest, part of a thing; as also كُبْرٌ , like عُظْمٌ; thought by Ibn-ElYezeedee to be a dial. form; but Az says, that the Arabs used the other form [كِبْرٌ]. So in the Kur, xxiv. 11, وَٱلَّذِى تَوَلَّى كِبْرَهُ And he who took upon himself, or undertook, the main part thereof; namely, of the very wicked lie against 'Áïsheh: thus accord. to the “ Seven Readers ”: and , which is an extr. reading, the reading of Homeyd Ibn-El-Aaraj, and of Yaakoob. كُبْرُ سِيَاسَةِ النَّاسِ فِى المَالِ, [app. signifies The main part of men's management is with respect to property, or camels, &c.].
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