مِرْبَاعٌ
Root: ربع
Full Definition
def.2 and مَرْبُوعٌ:
def.3 and رَبْعٌ.
def.4 Rain that comes in the beginning of the [season called] رَبِيع: [an epithet used in this sense as a subst.:] pl. مَرَابِيعُ. Hence, مَرَابِيعُ النُّجُومِ, as used in a verse of Lebeed cited in the first paragraph of art. رزق; by the نُجُوم being meant the أَنْوَآء; i. e. the Mansions of the Moon [which by their rising or setting at dawn were supposed to bring rain or wind or heat or cold].
2 Applied to a place, That produces herbage in the beginning of the [season called] رَبِيع.
3 Applied to land (أَرْضٌ): see مُرْبِعٌ.
4 Applied to a she-camel: see مُرْبِعٌ.
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