تغبّر
Root: غبر
Form: 5
Full Definition
تغبّرV
He milked the camel, drawing what remained in her udder; as also
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2 Hence the following saying, of a people who had increased and multiplied, on their being asked how it was that they had increased: كُنَّا لَا نَلْتَبِئُ الصَّغِيرَ وَلَا نَتَغَبَّرُ الكَبِيرَ We used not to take the first seed of the young, nor the remainder of the seed of the old; meaning the marrying them, from eagerness to procreate. (TA. [But لَا is there omitted in both clauses, and نَلْتَبِسُ is put by mistake for نَلْتَبِئُ.]) [See also art. لبأ.]
3 And hence, تغبّر مِنَ المَرْأَةِ وَلَدً He got offspring from the woman [she being old]. It is related that a certain man, an Arab of the desert, 'Othmán, accord. to the K, but correctly, as in the Genealogies of Ibn-El-Kelbee, Ghanm (غَنْمٌ) with gheyn moved by fet-h, and a quiescent noon, the son of Habeeb the son of Kaab the son of Bekr the son of Yeshkur the son of Wáïl, married a woman advanced in age, Rakáshi the daughter of 'Ámir, and it was said to him, “ She is old: ” whereupon he said, لَعَلِّى أَتَغَبَّرُ مِنْهَا وَلَدًا May-be I shall get from her offspring: and when a son was born to him, he named him غُبَرُ, like غُمَرُ; and he became the father of a tribe.
def.2 تغبّر also signifies He, or it, became sullied, or sprinkled, with dust; as also . You say also التَّمْرُ The dates, or dried dates, became dusty.
2 Hence the following saying, of a people who had increased and multiplied, on their being asked how it was that they had increased: كُنَّا لَا نَلْتَبِئُ الصَّغِيرَ وَلَا نَتَغَبَّرُ الكَبِيرَ
3 And hence, تغبّر مِنَ المَرْأَةِ وَلَدً
def.2 تغبّر also signifies He, or it, became sullied, or sprinkled, with dust; as also . You say also التَّمْرُ The dates, or dried dates, became dusty.