كَبِيرٌ
Root: كبر
Full Definition
كَبِيرٌ
Great [in body, or corporeal substance, and in estimation or rank or dignity; contr. of
صَغِيرٌ, but see عَظِيمٌ]; as also كِبِيرٌ, as asserted by En-Nawawee and others, and
كُبَارٌ [in an intensive sense, like عُطَامٌ,] and
كَابِرٌ and
كُبَّارٌ : or the last signifies excessively great: and كَابِرٌ is an epithat applied to a man, and signifying great in dignity and nobility; or great and noble; or one overcoming in greatness; or a lord, or chief; and the greatest, or oldest, ancestor: the fem. [of كَبِيرٌ] is with ة: and the pl. is كِبَارٌ and كُبَرَآءُ, applied to men, and مَكْبُورَآءُ, [or rather the last is a quasi-pl. n.,] like مَشْيُوخَآءُ; [see شَيْخٌ;] and [of كُبَّارٌ] كُبَّارُونَ. [See also أَكْبَرُ, and مُتَكَبِّرٌ.] You say ٱلْمَجْدَ كَابِرًا عَنْ تَوَارَثُوا
They inherited by degrees dignity, or nobility, one great in dignity and nobility from another great in dignity and nobility: or one great and noble from another great and noble: or عَنْ is here used in the sense of بَعْدَ [after]: (TA voce طَبَقٌ:) or one overcoming in greatness from another overcoming in greatness. [In the A and Msb, instead of توارثوا, I find وَرِثُوا.]
2 Great, or advanced, in age; old: and also big; meaning full-grown; and adolescent: (see كَبِرَ:) occurring in apposition to بَالِغٌ in art. برك in the S; and often, like بَالِغٌ, when applied to a human being, signifying one who has attained to puberty; opposed to صَغِيرٌ:] fem. with ة: and pl. كِبَارٌ.
3 [Hence,] A teacher, and master: so in the Kur, xx. 74, and xxvi. 48: and the most knowing, or learned, of a people: so in the Kur, xii. 80.
4 Difficult, severe, grievous, distressing, afflictive, troublesome, or burdensome: fem. with ة; occurring in this sense in the Kur, ii. 42. [The fem. is often used in the present day as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates, meaning, An affair, or a matter, that is difficult, severe, grievous, &c.]
5 الكَبِيرُ as an epithet applied to God is syn. with العَظِيمُ [signifying The Incomparably-great]. (TA in art. عظم.)
2 Great, or advanced, in age; old: and also big; meaning full-grown; and adolescent: (see كَبِرَ:) occurring in apposition to بَالِغٌ in art. برك in the S; and often, like بَالِغٌ, when applied to a human being, signifying one who has attained to puberty; opposed to صَغِيرٌ:] fem. with ة: and pl. كِبَارٌ.
3 [Hence,] A teacher, and master: so in the Kur, xx. 74, and xxvi. 48: and the most knowing, or learned, of a people: so in the Kur, xii. 80.
4 Difficult, severe, grievous, distressing, afflictive, troublesome, or burdensome: fem. with ة; occurring in this sense in the Kur, ii. 42. [The fem. is often used in the present day as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates, meaning, An affair, or a matter, that is difficult, severe, grievous, &c.]
5 الكَبِيرُ as an epithet applied to God is syn. with العَظِيمُ [signifying The Incomparably-great]. (TA in art. عظم.)
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