كَبِيرَة

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كَبِيرَة A foul, or an abominable, sin, or crime, or offence, forbidden by the law, of great magnitude; such as murder and adultery or forni- cation, and fleeing from an army proceeding against an enemy [of the Muslims], &c.; [contr. of صَغِيرَةٌ;] an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: and كِبْرٌ and كِبْرَةٌ [in like manner] signify a great sin, or crime, or offence, for which one deserves punishment: the ة is to give intensiveness to the signification: or كِبْرٌ signifies [simply] a sin, a crime, or an offence, for which one deserves punishment, [as كَبِيرَةٌ is said, not well, to signify, in the Msb,] and is from كَبِيرَةٌ, like خِطْ from خَطِيْئَةٌ: pl. of the first, كَبَائِرُ, and كَبِيرَاتٌ also occurs.
2 And see كَبِيرٌ.

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